“Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.”
Genghis Khan
The world is continuing to play with fire. Does that mean we will witness a global conflagration?
According to Chinese traditions, 2026 will be the Year of the Fire Horse, a constellation that only occurs once every sixty years. Such years are marked by power and dynamism; the Fire Horse symbolizes setting off and new beginnings. These are eventful years that can bring happiness and great promise...
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- 25.11.2025 15:38:56
The physicality of work is ceding to automation and AI-centricity, and real value creation now resides in mental performance. A new global divide emerges—between explicit knowledge, curated within Ivy walls and leather-bound books shelved for antiquity, and tacit knowledge, thriving in entrepreneurial mysticism: an instinct-driven mindset to take lifelong risks and create enterprises.
The Mind-First Age marks a historic pivot: This force dances through the cerebral canyons in search of unexplainable...
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- 28.10.2025 17:26:37
... artificial intelligence (AI), which is massively changing not only our working world, but also our lives.
Our reality is determined by trade wars, tariff increases, new borders, the expansion of old border fortifications and numerous divisions in our society.
Globalization has reached its boiling point. Ever more, ever higher and ever further. When will enough finally be enough?
Jacques Ancel or the identity of the heart
One vision, an approach that is becoming more relevant today than ever before,...
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- 05.05.2025 12:51:36
“The Curonian Spit is as remarkable as Spain or Italy, which one must have seen if one’s soul is not to be deprived of a wonderful image.” [1]
- Alexander von Humboldt
As geographer and geopolitician, Jacques Ancel once noted that there are no natural boundaries, such as mountains or rivers, that “can enclose states and nations ad aeterum.” For Ancel, borders are a “political isobar that determines the balance between mass and forces for a certain period of time.” It is primarily the spiritual...
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- 07.11.2023 12:24:08
Romanian new leadership have not succeeded (one may think they lack the will) to impose intrinsically new directions on our foreign policy. The causes may be seen both personal, determined by the nature of those responsible, but also constitutional, influenced by the relations between the state institutions. Moreover, Romania is a state known for its predictable principles and initiatives when it comes to international affairs. There are only few sudden or unexpected changes along our modern history...
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- 22.01.2016 09:22:00
Foreign policy constitutes one of the strong pillars of every nation-state; I wouldn’t say that is the most important (this depends from state to state), but for sure, is one of the dominants. Hence, the foreign policy decision making process has to serve as link between domestic intentions and external actions. Nowadays, there are specialists and scholars in the field of international politics that argue that the state is dead or, the functions of the state are overdue. It is true that the...
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- 16.09.2015 00:29:00
