... remember the euphoria accompanying the fall of the Berlin Wall and the alleged end of the Cold War, which led to a unipolar world. But how many of us do properly recall the major... ... obliteration of most of humanity. Those of us who remember have only to recall how NATO, instead of disbanding, ignored Russia’s concerns and attempts at serious dialogue, expanded, and then illegally bombed Belgrade, ignoring the UN. That was not enough, as the West then destroyed Iraq (lying, into the bargain) and Libya, and tried to destroy Syria...
In 2017 Russian foreign policy started a painful process of reassessing ... ... of the world order in general, and the about the future of the West in particular. Indeed, the year had turned out to be an
annus ... ... that after Trump became president, disputes intensified within NATO as to how the burden of defense expenses should be distributed ... ... cooperation similar to these during the 1970s or 1980s.
Back to the Cold War
Igor Ivanov:
Russia — Europe: the Need for a Common ...
... Kofner, director, Center for Eurasian Studies. Moscow, 18 August 2017.The essay “The Golden Background of Eurasia. The New Cold War and the Third Rome”(Goldgrund Eurasien. Der Neue Kalte Krieg und das Dritte Rom) published in early 2015 in Leipzig ... ... pages the graduate of Freiburg and Seville universities separates myths from reality regarding the old-new confrontation between Russia and the West. He introduces the German reader to the Eurasian ideology and provides his own unique interpretation on how political theories ...
... strategy aimed at acquiring veto
p
ower over the most important NATO decisions. These attitudes
we
re publicly revealed when NATO decided to freeze the Council
in
the midst of the crisis around Ukraine, although the Council had
underta
ken the explicit mission to promptly react to such dramatic
situ
ations.
Asymmetries
and status
One
of the “existential” problems with Russia’s claims for “equality”
in
its relations with the West is rooted in profound asymmetries
bet
ween the two sides, in both economic and security domains.
During
the Cold War, the Communist system was able to challenge
N
ATO (with the Warsaw Treaty Organisation) and the European
Union
(with ...
