Upon the dramatic failure of perestroika, the ruse of NATO ‘non-enlargement’ associated with the Two-Plus-Four German unification treaty, and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact…
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The German unification (or, more precisely, reunification) affair was many things to both Gorbachev, on a personal level as the head of state, and Russia.…
The expression “making the best out of circumstances,” is usually relative; but in the case of Saudi and Turkish pragmatism towards the Ukraine crisis, it…
There is an international cohort made of politicians, political scientists, and analysts, as well as students of international politics that holds the conviction that the…
““Interdependence” is the catchword of the day. As is with catchwords, the term usually goes undefined.”—Kenneth N. Waltz Just as gold is alloyed with…
Multilateralism, both in theory and principle, is all very fine and beneficial for all state actors in the international political system. Simply put, it is…
In the final couple weeks leading up to the Geneva U.S.-Russia Summit, and during the separate press conferences that followed, there were few among the…
The straight-out answer to that question is: hawks preying on doves in Washington D.C. As a matter of fact, not just doves; but, those moderate…
Let’s cut to the chase, not every ‘anti-Russia’ government or regime in Eastern Europe is by default a democratic one, much less a Western-style democracy.…
In the 70s of the last century, the Vietnam War and its aftermaths had pronounced China’s abandonment of an intransigent global strategy revolving around radical…