The book, written by James Sherr, the associate fellow of the Russian and Eurasian Programme at Chatham House (Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs, London), an expert with extensive advisory experience on the Soviet and Russian military, security and foreign policy, was launched in June, 2013. Those who are interested in Russian foreign policy and…

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I have no intention to disappoint you or annoy you in case you were honestly looking for something about bipolarity in international relations, so this post will be dedicated, in some measure, to the well-known concept of ‘bipolarity’- and problems that lie beneath.
 
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It is important that the first post of this blog addresses the theoretical foundation of its subject, namely the environment in which unrecognised states are assumed to operate and the structural restraints this may place upon them. The study of unrecognised states is, by extension, a study of small states, thus it is appropriate to operate within the…

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

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Welcome to this rather strange (or even abnormal) creation that tries to view such vast themes as international relations, (world) politics, etc. with ‘new eyes’. An attentive Reader might have noticed a…

The Japanese public has lost their trust in nuclear power as a safe source of energy. The public is also concerned about the possibility of another earthquake/tsunami or other unexpected but possible causes of a similar malfunctioning in the nuclear power reactors. Many people are asking whether accepting the risk of having a nuclear fall-out from a…

In a conference call that I attended Friday discussing second quarter performance Brazil’s finance minister Guido Mantega noted that agricultural production increased 3.9% . That’s good for Russia and the rest of the BRICS because Brazil’s food exports help feed them. Among the alliance Brazil is the only nation that can feed itself.
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The most terrifying weapon in human history is unquestionably a nuclear bomb, but if we look at the real weapons of mass destruction it is in fact small arms, these cause more desolation then any…

Last week, heaps of Ukrainian goods got stuck at the Russo-Ukrainian border, following the Kremlin's issuance of a "Marry me or else" ultimatum to Kiev — in case the latter finalizes its association agreement with the European Union. Unequivocal in its intent, Russia has been pressurizing Ukraine into opting for Eurasian…

The cancellation of Obama’s visit to Moscow made compellingly clear what previously many have suspected: the current presidents of the United States and Russia are in a state of conflict. Perhaps the problem is the two men’s individual psychological incompatibility – this sometimes happens between politicians. However, in this…

Shortly before Edward Snowden shared eavesdropping secrets with Wikileaks agent Glenn Greenwald the famous Harvard soft power guru and regional Trilateral Commission president Joseph Nye wrote an article in Foreign Policy stating, inter alia, that Russia doesn’t understand soft power because it is not a free society and the United States does…

“The man of logical training will only seek such a degree of certainty in each branch of study as the character of the objects studied permits.”

― Aristotle

 

In our modern world, it appears like there are as many experts as there are opinions, with many of these being driven by impulsive…

 
        The demise of the Cold War urged us to grow our brain out of the simplified friend-foe dichotomy. Reintegrating herself into an increasingly globalized world of the 21st century, Russia as well as any other country cannot think in an outdated framework of “you are either with us or against us…