... 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): ...
... the world towards a new multilateralism. They are too used to asymmetrical interdependence and they are tempted to use their 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 to pioneer new multilateral models. This is why the ongoing German discourse on multilateralism is particularly important ...
... 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 ...
... has been accused of destroying the post-war liberal world order. This is fundamentally wrong in many respects. There were two world orders after the war. One was liberal-democratic and capitalist, led by the United States. The other one was socialist, ... ... of the jungle in its worst form. 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 and Slovenia which had broken away from ...
On October 26 Aspen Institute in Berlin, Germany, hosted an international conference «The World in 2025 – Germany’s Role and Partners in a Shifting World Order».
On October 26
Aspen Institute
in Berlin, Germany, hosted an international conference «The World in 2025 – Germany’s Role and Partners in a Shifting World Order».
The conference focused on the evolution of the modern international ...
... 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 ...
On October 28-30, 2015, RIAC Media and Government Relations Manager Anton Tsvetov was in Beijing at the 160th Bergerdorf Roundtable “New Players – Old Rules? The Global Order in Transition” organized by the
Körber Foundation
and International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
The forum was attended by European politicians and researchers, representatives and top figures of political parties, foreign ministries, international organizations...
