US PRESIDENT Abraham Lincoln [purportedly] said: “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”1 It seems that the Americans have been faltering in recent years, wittingly or unwittingly making fateful mistakes that are having an ever-growing impact on the geopolitical situation of […]
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This article notes that Washington and Tokyo intend to continue hindering Taiwan’s reunification with Mainland China, which would greatly strengthen Beijing’s position in the Pacific Ocean. Under the administration of President Donald Trump, the United States notably stepped up its support for Taiwan, in both expanding its official ties with Taipei and supplying it with American arms.
Wars that are a continuation of politics by states have practically always been waged according to special rules of warfare, by a specially trained state organization: the army. Analysis of the international situation that has evolved lately shows that the military conflicts occurring in the world are fundamentally different from the classical war type. New-type conflicts lack the uniformity of organized force traditionally represented by the state. Instead, they feature nonstate entities as initiators of organized action and the employment of nonmilitary methods of confrontation along with traditional military methods.
GEOPOLITICS AND SECURITY The Nature of Current Military Threats to Russia and the Experience of History (Read this article online for FREE)L.I. Olshtynsky Current Problems of Air Force Tactics and Ways to Solve ThemS.N. Kurilov, A.N. Kiryushin, Yu.N. Moiseyev Crises in Russian-US Cooperation on Missile DefenseM.G. Valeyev, A. V. Platonov, V.I. Yaroshevsky MILITARY ART Analyzing […]
FOCUS ON RUSSIA Religion and Politics in Russia: Events and ControversiesV. Pinkevich In the Beginning Was the Word… and in the End the Number? Orthodoxy and Anti-Digital Protests in RussiaB. Knorre, A. Murashova ESSAYS Russia and the European Union: Deferred Partnership (Read this article online for FREE)N. Arbatova Shaping the European Union’s Common External Energy […]
This article analyzes some aspects of civilizationism as a trend in the self-positioning strategies of several Asian states, notably China and India, as well as some other countries. Close attention is paid to the concept of the civilization state (CS), as distinct from the nation state (NS), where the former reveals the specific characteristics of the major non-Western states.
HUMANKIND has found itself in a rather deplorable state in 2021. The coronavirus pandemic as a new global threat has exacerbated existing risks and challenges. The economic depression that has affected the world, coupled with social problems and the inability of states to effectively protect their citizens, has revealed a systemic crisis of the existing […]
POLITICS Highlights of China’s Foreign Policy in 2020 (Read this article online for FREE)V. Portyakov Indo-Nepalese Relations: Problems and ProspectsE. Shirgazina ECONOMICS Energy Balances of East Asian Countries in the Context of Global TrendsA. Akimov Regulation of the Circulation of Digital Financial Assets in Hong Kong, Macao, and Mainland ChinaA. Alekseyenko THEORY AND METHODOLOGY Chen […]
This article notes that Washington and Tokyo intend to continue hindering Taiwan’s reunification with Mainland China, which would greatly strengthen Beijing’s position in the Pacific Ocean. Under the administration of President Donald Trump, the United States notably stepped up its support for Taiwan, in both expanding its official ties with Taipei and supplying it with American arms.