... than three hundred thousand people left homeless. In the same year, an earthquake in Valparaíso claimed an estimated ten thousand lives. That year also witnessed a mining disaster in France that killed approximately eleven hundred miners.
In 1966, China’s Cultural Revolution claimed around twenty million lives; immeasurable suffering, massacres, torture and the destruction of traditional thought, customs and cultures.
Whether one believes in such correlations, in mystique or in coincidence is ...
... No. 99 / 2025
Report No. 99 / 2025
The following report focuses on the Middle Eastern policies of extra-regional actors and their transformation in changing conditions. It concentrates on studying the strategies pursued by Russia, the U.S., the EU, China and India in the Middle East. The report also examines how Middle Eastern countries perceive extra-regional actors as they aspire to build pragmatic and balanced relationships with external partners.
Extra-Regional Actors in the Middle East
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What holds a nation and a country together is certainly not a forced sense of community and enforced collectivism as it is in China or as it was in the former GDR.
To some extent, there are now some parallels, with the rearmament of the Bundeswehr, the ... ... common language and common unspoken rituals, such as the simple Easter and Christmas rituals, that naturally and casually hold a society together and strengthen it.
Realism, objectivity and neutrality should be the guiding principles. We need fewer hotheads ...
... manganese, limestone, phosphates, marble, salt, gypsum and oil—but will the trio manage to extract them on their own (though jointly) in commercial quantities to gain economic sovereignty, not just political one? Or all hopes are again pinned on Russia, China, Turkey, Iran and other non-Western nations? And if so, is “sovereignty” the right word here? Of course, “dependence” on Russia, for example, would differ from neocolonialism by ensuring “fairness” and “equality between partners,” ...
... victory of the only “reformist” candidate, Masoud Pezeshkian, in the recent presidential election is a clear signal from society to the leadership of the Islamic Republic that people want peace, stability and economic development, rather than new ... ... West would inevitably lead to a chain reaction of major armed conflicts all over the planet. They predicted an imminent U.S.–China military clash over Taiwan, an armed standoff between China and India in the Himalayas or between India and Pakistan in ...
On September 4, 2024, an independent Indian journalist and writer, Shastri Ramachandaran, presented his new book “Beyond Binaries: The World of India and China (2008–2022)” at the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)
On September 4, 2024, an independent Indian journalist and writer, Shastri Ramachandaran, presented his new book “
Beyond Binaries: The World of India and China (2008–2022)
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... from being the world’s gas station that Russia has come to be known for in the wake of the Soviet Union’s demise. Russian society, which had become increasingly atomized as few made instant fortunes, is now relearning solidarity and finding a common ... ... Timofeev:
A State as Civilisation and Political Theory
Yet, the Western effort to completely isolate Russia has fallen far short. China and India, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, Iran and the United Arab Emirates, Brazil and South Africa, along with many others, ...
China has taken the initiative to refine its COVID-19 response measures
Over the past three years, the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc around the globe and posed enormous challenges to all countries including China. The Communist Party of China ...
... Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, who not so long ago was perceived in Washington solely as an international criminal.
As for the US-China stand-off, it is not clear what exactly Washington has prepared to counter Beijing’s growing economic activity in, say,... ... migration, etc.) speak more to the common sense and pragmatism of Americans than to an increasingly isolationist sentiment in society. The fundamental problem in the US is not even some specific manifestation of current economic and social malaise, but ...
... from the Cold War at the turn of the 1990s and everyone wanted to be like the winners, it was the United States who perhaps had the moral right to say which countries were “democratic” and which were not, and everyone listened. What is more, both China and Russia sincerely wanted to become a part of the “global West.” But when it became clear that they would never occupy a place other than the periphery in this pro-Western global model, and that Western society had become a prisoner of its own agenda (poorly understood and not at all appealing for the “non-West”), people started to voice their criticism of the West’s monopoly on the right to play the role of arbiter.
Nowhere can these voices be ...
