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Pessimism of Reason and Optimism of Will. The Arab World the Day After Tomorrow

A fairly alarming picture of the future, replete with conflicts Of course, the 100 years indicated in the title of the project is merely a poetic metaphor. In reality, we can only speak with some degree of certainty about two far closer forecasting horizons. One is five or ten years away. Let us assume that very soon somebody will win and somebody will lose the civil wars raging in the Middle East. Let us further assume that the conflicts that are tearing this world apart will be settled, or at...

03.12.2015

Before we unite

“Before we can unite, and to unite, we must first firmly and definitely delimitate” The concept of “border” was never perceived in CA as it is nowadays, for many centuries borders in that region were only “natural” - based on rivers, lakes and mountains because the borders of the “states” of those historic period were shifting. After Russian Empire came into region it was a concept of Empire’s ...

22.03.2013

When Will Europe’s Powder Keg Explode?

Balkan Borders in a Hundred Years A hundred years ago today the first Balkan War was raging. A union of newly independent Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Montenegro were fighting the Ottoman Empire for lands they had lost to it five centuries before. Their war ...

20.02.2013

Poll conducted

  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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