... the key to more exchange and openness for the Kaliningrad-Königsberg region? And wouldn’t this also make sense for Ukraine? Neutrality in order to be able to write its own history, wouldn’t that be this a sensible first step towards a peaceful world order?
What remains is the beautiful sky over East Prussia and the hope that this beautiful land of my ancestors is moving towards its destiny — namely that of reconciliation, the bridge from Germany and Poland to Russia, a bridge that connects and reconciles West and East.
References and Reading Tipps
Ancel, Jacques (1938): Géographie des frontières, Gallimard.
Banik, Katja (2024): Die friedliche Memel, www.katjabanik.com
Banik, Katja (2022): ...
... multilateral arrangements.
Andrey Kortunov, Zhao Huasheng:
The Coming Bipolarity and Its Implications: Views from China and Russia
In sum, if multilateral practices are to survive in years to come, they will survive in the format of ad hoc multilateralism ... ... comparative advantages in the format of bilateral relations with their relatively smaller and weaker partners. Countries like Germany, which have already accumulated a lot of experience in various formats of multilateralism, might be in a better position ...
... event, participants discussed current threats to the liberal principles of international relations established by the UN Charter, the Helsinki Act, the Paris Charter for a New Europe and other fundamental documents. Among the main threats to the liberal world order participants named the rise of nationalism and populism in nation states around the world, the growing number of armed conflicts, the destruction of fundamental international treaties, the new wave of the arms race. The participants also proposed ...
... few days ago I spoke at a seminar attended by renowned and unorthodox scholars from Russia and the West. The topic of my presentation was “What Will There Be after the... ... begin with the obvious.
Russia has been accused of destroying the post-war liberal world order. This is fundamentally wrong in many respects. There were two world orders... ... International law and norms of interstate relations were viciously trampled upon. In 1991, Germany and then the European Union as a whole recognized the independence of Croatia...
... in the world economy as an obstacle to European integration, crisis phenomena in the European Union, and as European security system issue, etc. At the same time, the current domestic political dynamics in the U.S. and EU countries — primarily in Germany — brings the issues of transatlantic or European-American relations to the forefront. The configuration of the future world order will depend on the dynamics of these relations.
Such tensions within Western institutions and the Euro-Atlantic region are also a serious challenge for Russian foreign policy, security, and economy, and, in general, for the understanding of its position in the world. Although Russia seeks parity with the United States in terms of strategic stability and global governance, the European Union and Germany ...
