... community has always attempted to guess the secret ingredient to the endurability of the North Korean regime. An obvious component would be the unique social-economic mechanisms tailored to the country’s unique situation. The socialist model of economic mobilization, well-known from the first five-year plans of the USSR, demonstrated throughout World War II and during the post-war reconstruction of the economy, is highly effective. Ironically, it should be noted that U.S. think tanks have only now begun ...
Protectionism – the New Norm of International Trade
A side effect of any trade war is protectionism, which is particularly pronounced during a period of structural transformation or the transition to a new stage of development in economic competition. And we are not just talking about economic transformations here, but also social transformations – imbalances in the economy lead to social disruptions and failures on the labour market, and the national or supranational government must respond to...
... should affect everyone. And Russia already has experience in this area.
Thus, the construction of a “mobilization economy” will be a key test for the legitimization of power – will it be enough to have “great power” as a national idea? A “mobilization economy” leads to the high level of government intervention in the lives of each individual and the sharp reduction in the possibility of implementing an “exit” strategy. This means a test of loyalty of the part of society that did not vote for Putin in the general election (approximately two-thirds of the population), and we know nothing about the level of their loyalty. So, this basis of sovereignty will face the most serious test in case the conflict between ...
... statements made by U.S. congresspeople, the American people cannot see their country as the “best in the world” if their elections can be so easily manipulated by foreign accounts on social networks. The response to “the actions of Russia” could be a mobilization of sorts of American society: blocking the enemy’s access to the information space, restricting the rights of Russian citizens living in the United States, and also restricting the rights of its own citizens to access information from abroad. And this is precisely what ...
