Eastern and Central Europe are self-sufficient neither energetically, nor economically. Attempts are being made towards greater independence from Russian energy resources and increased regional cooperation. The Three Seas Summit, attended by President Trump last week was as a stepping stone in this direction. The 2017 Three Seas Summit was the second…

China is the predominant worldwide exporter of manufactured goods, creating an enormous portion of the world’s consumer products and other items that are more dependent on man hours than on capital capacity. At face value, this is a good thing for the world: China can produce far more goods for much cheaper at a functional quality than, say, the…

In the wake of the Second World War, the United States found itself in an unprecedented position of power. As the only country to emerge from the chaotic fighting as both victorious and unscathed relative to its European and Asian counterparts, the United States was able to set the tone for its establishment of a liberal hegemony over the world…

Subject: The Evolving Nuclear Order: New Technology and Nuclear RiskVenue: Andalo (Trento, Italy)Date: 7-14 January 2018Director of the School: Carlo Schaerf (ISODARCO, Rome, Italy).Directors of the Course: Francesca Giovannini (Committee on International Security Studies, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, USA) and Steven Miller…

Since Donald Trump took over the oval office, uncertainty has two-folded and the International Liberal Order came under jeopardy. Even some analysts smack the drum of the end of the unipolar world. It was more evident during the G20 summit, which American lost its leading role to encourage the summit participant to condemn North Korea’s…

UPDATE 19 DEC According to Buenos Aires News and other sources, Colombia's justice system has fined Brazil construction and engineering giant Odebrecht $250 million, having found the firm guilty of corruption to secure contracts. The company is also banned from tendering for state contracts in Colombia for ten years. According to the Buenos Aires News…

1959 Nikita Khrushchev Our efforts to build our economy without expansion of socialism in Europe and seed planting in America will place us in a situation where China will exploit our land and peoples as they are of much more adversarial communist and will fall victim of our horrendous Stalinist years of oppression and genocide. I believe we can move…

Global effort to put ban on nuclear tests remains one of the oldest yet the hardest fought item on so-called non-proliferation and disarmament agenda of nuclear-haves. This quest to ban is considered a step to eventually eliminate nuclear weapons. Enforcing the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is like untying the Gordian Knot because even…

The July 2015-February 2017 interviews with Vladimir Putin by US filmmaker Oliver Stone, now streaming on Showtime, provide surprising insights into the mind of the Russian leader. “We like President Trump,” Putin admits, recalling that during the election campaign Trump was open to a new relationship with Moscow. Further progress was stalled by…

Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, the United States has increasingly adopted a unipolar grand strategy in which power politics reign supreme over diplomatic relations. Instead of focusing on strategies that promote the improvement of understanding and relations with countries outside of NATO, the United States choses to further distance itself…

The American view on the Syrian crisis is largely one of confusion and uncertainty. Generally, we Americans have a difficult time rationalizing what America’s purpose in the conflict should be. Still, we generally believe that Russia’s involvement is an attempt by Putin to create a puppet state out of an Assad-run country to use as an additional…

The United States is a schizophrenic asylum of extreme paradoxes: While its internal politics reverberates with fake news-mediated recriminations, Americans yet find merit in the same disinformation machinery that facilitates false flags abroad.The US is now threatening Syria over an imminent “chemical weapons attack” without offering a shred of…