... Union, Georgia bucked the trend
Relations between Georgia and the West – which were already difficult – took a new turn last week when the leader of the ruling Georgian Dream party said that funding of the opposition by the United States and the European Union amounted to “crossing red lines.”
With an election on the horizon, Bidzina Ivanishvili, widely considered the de facto leader of the party, and its honorary chairman, accused Western states of interfering in the country’s internal ...
How the successes of the far right and far left will affect politics in the EU’s most powerful state
The elephant in the room has gotten bigger. There’s yet more anxiety in Germany after the non-systemic parties (often dismissed as ‘populists’) scored significant electoral successes in two eastern states over the weekend....
... longer viable as a proxy
The
“Ukraine crisis”
is not actually an accurate name for what is happening now in relations between Russia and the West. This confrontation is global. It touches virtually every functional area – from finance to pharmaceuticals to sport – and spans many geographical regions.
In Europe, which has become the epicenter of this confrontation, the highest level of tension outside Ukraine is now in the Baltic region. The question often asked in Russia (and in the West) ...
... trade and production, the logistical chains for which were created during the globalization boom and have qualitatively transformed the economy. They are extremely painful to break. And the second is a unified information field, thanks to ‘nationally neutral’ communications giants.
But there is something strange that separates us. It is not a desire to grab more of the pie – in the sense of what Lenin called the expansionist
“imperialist predators”
– but rather a sense of internal vulnerability ...
It is difficult to imagine that a new system of global and regional security can be based on the “good old” European principles
NATO and the SCO represent two opposing concepts of ensuring international security: through control over the internal politics of the states included in the system, and through intensive diplomatic dialogue between them. We cannot ...
... I’d write something like this:
“The loud echo of gunshots in Pennsylvania resounded across the Atlantic…”
You can argue about the appropriateness of using a stylebook long consigned to history, but it’s the truth of the matter.
Across the European Union, they‘re in shock at what is happening in the United States. In the past two weeks alone, first the uproar over President Joe Biden’s embarrassment in the debate, and now the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, which has disrupted ...
... implies that national political structures are no longer expected to be capable of creatively addressing public concerns, writes Valdai Club Programme Director
Timofei Bordachev
.
At present, the political systems of the leading countries of Western Europe are in a situation that in earlier times could have served as a source of serious revolutionary upheavals. However, after several decades of changes aimed primarily at maintaining the status quo, the populations and elites have little room for ...
... Nevertheless, in both instances, this implies that Moscow and Washington need to constantly consider how to protect their allies from external influences and threats, as well as mind their own vulnerabilities.
Secondly, the strategic setbacks experienced by Europe during the two World Wars of 1914-1945 resulted in its leading nations becoming completely reliant on the United States, effectively losing their sovereignty in military and political matters. Even the possession of some nuclear weapons by France ...
The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has reached a critical juncture, raising fears that it could escalate into a broader European conflict. Initially a regional dispute, the conflict now poses a serious threat to the entire continent. The United States appears to be driving the conflict, seeing potential benefits regardless of the outcome. However, Europe is already facing ...
It will be significantly easier to the Western world to gradually accept that its resources are finite than it will be for those who currently find the dominance of the United States and Europe unsatisfactory to establish new models of collaboration, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Timofei Bordachev.
One of the most significant challenges that the global community of nations is currently facing in relation to the dismantling of ...
