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This combination of Reagan-era realism, libertarian disruption, and techno-optimism has created a volatile cocktail. A conflict between the two egos—both prone to narcissism—seems inevitable, though how it unfolds could reshape global politics.
Europe: Fragmentation and Contradiction
European politics continue to fragment, with unstable party systems and reactive policies dominating the landscape. Governments struggle to address crises while clinging to outdated ideologies, creating contradictory ...
... oppose the Western diktat, with emerging economies and new centres of financial power in China, India, ASEAN, the Arab world, and CELAC replacing the USSR in this role. This group also includes a resurgent Russia together with its allies from the EAEU, the CIS, and CSTO. This also includes the SCO and BRICS, and many other emerging and rapidly developing associations across the world, in the countries of the Global South, or to use a better designation – within the Global Majority. A new reality ...
... sufficient to rebuild the shattered Syrian economic There are three possible channels for external financial and technical support in the near term. These are the UN Trust Fund, humanitarian exemptions from the sanctions of the U.S. and a number of EU member states, as well as opportunities of the UN Development Program, under which some reconstruction works are being carried out. If the poptical process moves forward, a number of Gulf Arab states can also be expected to participate in reconstruction ...
... All we have to do is look closely.
The Nemunas (Memel) River with a view of Kaliningrad oblast/Königsberg, summer 2023
West
There’s also a lot of excitement on the “Western front.” With Donald Trump as president of the US, the pressure on the EU will grow. The trade war between the US and China will intensify and, in keeping with the dictum “Make America great again,” not only will the conversation’s tone become harsher, we will see whether the US becomes part of a multi-polar or multi-regional ...
Any attempts to create a space for cooperation at the level of one region, even one as large as Eurasia, represent a completely new phenomenon in the history of international politics
Any attempts to create a space for cooperation at the level of one region, even one as large as Eurasia, represent a completely new phenomenon in the history of ...
The country is a tightly controlled dependent US colony and it’s hard to see that changing in the near future
Germany is a political void in the center of Europe, even though it contributes significantly to the global economy and is influential in trade.
It’s also the Western country with which Russia has had the most historical, cultural and, until recently, economic contacts. A week ago the government ...
Sluggish growth results in a widening GDP gap with the US and increases existential risks for the EU within the changing globalisation paradigm
On September 9, 2024, former European Central Bank (ECB) president and ex-Italian prime minister Mario Draghi presented the European Commission (EC) with a 400-page report on the future of European competitiveness....
... Belgrade is a strategic partner and "ally of Russia".
Putin greeted his Serbian colleague Aleksandar Vučić, whom he invited to attend the upcoming BRICS summit in Kazan.
Source: TASS
This Slavic solidarity, however, was not approved by the European Union. The next day, EU foreign affairs spokesman Peter Stano said that maintaining or even intensifying ties with Russia at the time of its illegal aggression against the Ukrainian people is not in line with EU values.
Vulin's visit to Russia ...
... Union, Georgia bucked the trend
Relations between Georgia and the West – which were already difficult – took a new turn last week when the leader of the ruling Georgian Dream party said that funding of the opposition by the United States and the European Union amounted to “crossing red lines.”
With an election on the horizon, Bidzina Ivanishvili, widely considered the de facto leader of the party, and its honorary chairman, accused Western states of interfering in the country’s internal ...
How the successes of the far right and far left will affect politics in the EU’s most powerful state
The elephant in the room has gotten bigger. There’s yet more anxiety in Germany after the non-systemic parties (often dismissed as ‘populists’) scored significant electoral successes in two eastern states over the weekend....
