From empires to alliances: the continent’s long road to mutual respect
We can no longer expect the international system – whether global or Eurasian – to reproduce the
“ideal”
models of order known from history. The world has changed too profoundly. Yet if the nations of Greater Eurasia wish to coexist securely, we must begin defining our own principles of legitimacy and mutual respect.
Any student of international politics knows that mutual recognition ...
... economic growth at a stable rate. Entrepreneurialism is primarily a dance in the sandbox, about chasing a vision, always without justification or accepted rationale. This casual and risky pattern, spanning millennia, has been repeatedly proven in recorded history.
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History should be approached with integrity, not as a tool to justify current political positions
Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Russia from May 7 to 10 at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin and will attend the celebrations marking ...
... and primitive instincts these days. I can’t really figure out what’s the underlying problem behind that, but I start to think education matters. Education produces self-interested individuals with low moral standards. People don’t know their own history, there is a total absence of critical thinking. The current generation of leaders are mere individualistic bureaucrats who see their national interests through the same lenses as if it were a company that needs to outmaneuver their competitors”....
... the potential influence from on-land positions to the waters of trade. In consequence, current sea nations may find their economic ties cut as Asian flourishing states experienced with the deterioration of the Silk Road connections.
In conclusion, the history of the Silk Road is a lesson and the Houthis’ activities in the Red Sea are a signal for the contemporary economic relations based on the sea routes. Therefore, it is significant to remember the history of the crisis of trade along the Red Road ...
... historical aspects of oriental studies), international relations have traditionally been influenced by historical research methodology. Accordingly, even despite their interdisciplinary nature, these subjects have been affected by challenges encountered in history as a branch of learning.
Vasily Kuznetsov:
The Middle East: Postmodernism Is Over
In the 1990s, Russian historical science abandoned Marxism, yet failed to immediately develop revised theoretical and methodological foundations that would go beyond ...
... Great was a hero, although he cautioned against proving this statement by destroying government property. Indeed, Alexander the Great was the first to attempt the heroic feat of uniting the entire ecumene known to Europeans in BC 334–323. Certainly, history knew great conquerors before Alexander, people who established vast empires, but Alexander laid down, if we may say so, both the material and the ideological and political foundations of a globalization project in classical antiquity. Alexander ...
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by ending hostilities, introducing peacekeepers, and maintaining its central role in the vital Caucasus region. However, Russia’s direct intervention in the Karabakh conflict with the November peace statement also bears echoes of much earlier history.
Echoes of the Past
Christian Wollny:
Nagorno-Karabakh: A Frozen Conflict Rethawed
On July 24 (August 4) 1783, at the southern Russian fortress of Georgiyevsk, representatives of Russian Empress Catherine the Great and Georgian King Erekle II ...
... assistance of the USSR until it gained power. After the founding of the PRC, China and the Soviet Union formed an alliance, and China applied the Soviet Union (USSR) model for socialist construction. Thus, it can be said that bilateral relations reflect the history of the Chinese revolution and the history of PRC's early development. In USSR, although Sino-Soviet relations did not occupy a dominant position, the importance of Sino-Soviet relations should not be neglected. Especially, China played a role ...
China and Russia act in accordance with their own interests, which are not always identical. For the time being, the creation of a Russo-Chinese military alliance isn’t a viable idea, and cooperation between China and Russia in the Arctic is exclusively economic.
China and Russia act in accordance with their own interests, which are not always identical. For the time being, the creation of a Russo-Chinese military alliance isn’t a viable idea, and cooperation between China and Russia in the Arctic...
