“So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom.” Richard P. Feynman, a Nobel Prize…

Climate change is a change in climate variables, especially temperature and rainfall that occur gradually in a long period of time between 50 to 100 years. Furthermore, it ought to be noted that the changes are brought about by human activities (anthropogenic), particularly those linked to fossil fuel consumption & over-land. Source Causes And…

While the United States and the Soviet Union orchestrated the November 1947 partition resolution underpinning Israel’s establishment, [1] Czechoslovakia provided the nascent Jewish state with vital war material for rebuffing the Arab attempt to destroy it at birth. So vital was it that David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, commented…

Shifts in perceptions among European Jews on where they feel safest is not due entirely to demographic change. It also has to do with Eastern European leaders like the Czech Republic’s Miloš Zeman, who, in the tradition of the country’s founder, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, has become not just a strong voice for his people but a true friend of the…

I had occasion recently to engage with the thinking of the very talented Professor Igor Panarin, a most distinguished Russian intelligence officer and strategic forecaster, and today the dean of the Russian school for future diplomats. In 1998 he predicted the break-up of the USA by 2010 – a Balkanized USA influenced by others, with Alaska going…

_ Yuri Kofner, head, Eurasian sector, Higher School of Economics; research assistant, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). Report given at the KAS School of Excellence 2018 “Eastern Partnership: Challenges, Chances and Perspectives”. Chisinau, 9 November 2018.*Unfortunately in the West, especially in the “new European”…

October 2018 witnessed a wave of AI discussions at governmental levels around the world. A summary report of all EU states caught on the wave of the White House and Kremlin preoccupation with this already prevalent Chinese and Japanese advances in technologies (reports by the EU, RIAC, and RAND corporation on these issues). What is it all for? It is in…

I always appreciate the thoughts of Andrey Kortunov and read “Trump-Putin Meetings: Do Elephants Need Celibacy”[1] with great interest. While I agree with most of what my colleague has written, I want to make a few points that should be encouraging to all. I especially want to note that our two Presidents met on the 11th despite no meeting being…

On November 16, 2018, President Trump signed into law the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018. This landmark legislation elevates the mission of the former National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) within DHS and establishes the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). My fellow Journalists in…

For a very long time Russia’s role was to defend the rest of the world from Europe. Since the end of the Cold War, Russia has been trying to facilitate the maintenance of peace and the development of order in the rest of the world. In the absence of Russia, an anarchy would be unleashed in the world that the United States would not be able to manage…

Is ' Statue of Unity' the new pride of India? Time comes when like National Flag and National Emblem few more things,places and persons become National Pride. Now when 'Statue of Unity is dedicated to public on 31st October,2018 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi,the debate is on to evaluate 'Statue Of Unity' as new pride of India which is also the…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: An important lesson of the notorious Munich Agreement, which marked its 80th anniversary last month, is that small nations must defend their independence at all costs, even at the risk of defying most of the international community. Had Czechoslovakia defied the Munich sellout and defended its territory, Hitler’s bluff would have…