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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into an increasingly globalized world of the 21st century, Russia as well as any other country cannot think in an outdated framework of “you are either with us or against us…

 
        The returning Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) have successfully regain full control over the upper and lower congresses of Japan in July 2013; now they are equipped with an ever-mightier momentum and democratic mandate to push forward agendas of the most pressing national…

The atmosphere in the press room at Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia was agitated Tuesday morning.  Journalists and camera crews were scurrying about, waiting for Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to arrive. I was there, attending the event..   The diplomats were holding a joint news conference on the status…

 
        Today’s global business faces a pressing call for incorporating social responsibility into a calculus of strategic profit making. Although good corporate citizenship has become one of universal criteria to access the overall success of any global firm, market share, along with profitability, remains as the…

 
        On July 2013, the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) won general election of the upper house by landslide and achieved its full control over both the upper congress (参議院: House of Councilors) and lower congress (衆議院: House of Representatives) of Japan. After coming through a period of unpopularity…

 
      The worldwide financial meltdown of 2007 has triggered countless emotional responses at every single corner of the world. Fears marched and myths triumphed. Some claimed that all capitalist states are prone to be bankrupt (although states by definition cannot be bankrupt, strictly speaking) and others proclaimed that the…

 
        At an international summer program of MGIMO (Russian Foreign Ministry Moscow State Institute of International Relations), more than a few professors mentioned that Russia and Japan are still technically “at the state of war” since there has been no conclusive peace treaty signed after the World War II…