... of the 2010s.
At the same time, the steady and growing rejection of the Russian authorities was caused by two tendencies. The first was the increasingly tangible attempts on the part of Western countries to engage in dialogue with so-called Russian civil society, bypassing the state. In this paradigm, “good” civil society and “bad” government were opposed to each other. Moscow’s growing and understandable allergy was evoked by the notion of the “Russian regime”. It hinted or even directly ...
The myth of “blissful globalization” needs to be replaced by a project to reset the entire process where we learn from the mistakes of the past.
The coronavirus pandemic has plunged the world into all kinds of discouraging thoughts. Most analytical articles talk scathingly about the international system and offer bleak forecasts for the remainder of the 2020s.
Analysts have set their sights firmly on the issue of globalization. Some say the globalization processes we have seen have not gone far...
Some principles of the “responsible restriction of freedom” that the authorities of all countries should think about when such restrictions are inevitable
They say that freedom is better than no freedom. Human nature stubbornly resists external constraints, no matter where they come from and how they may be justified. Yet in times of war, natural disasters and epidemics, weak and vulnerable individuals turn to the state for protection and support. Still, even in times such as these, most of us...
