The changing map of the Caucasus – The creation of Nagorno Karabakh

Le Monde diplomatique

Nikolaus von Seidlitz’s interpretation of the Caucasus, published in 1881, revealed the region’s long history of diversity and friction. It still aids understanding of the tensions between Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.

https://mondediplo.com/2021/02/09caucasus

Kissinger: These are the main geopolitical challenges facing the world right now

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/05/kissinger-these-are-the-main-geopolitical-challenges-facing-the-world-right-now/

  • Former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, joined Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, for a conversation on the most pressing issues facing the world.
  • Kissinger says the conflict in Ukraine can permanently restructure the global order.
  • How the USA and China navigate their relationship in this complicated world will be telling for future generations.

Biden’s challenges on foreign policy

>A commentary on the challenges ahead right after his election victory 12/2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/biden-foreign-policy/?itid=biden-agenda_carousel

An International Relations question

“Brutal warfare”. The term was used by NATO’s S.G. Stoltenberg referring to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Is there a NON-brutal warfare?(ontological question)

Here is what Clausewitz suggests

Kenneth Waltz,“The Spread of nuclear weapons:More May Better”

Adelphi Papers,N 171,International Institute for Strategic Studies,1981

George Voskopoulos-Engage Interview Part 1/INSTITUT DE RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES ET STRATÉGIQUES, Paris, France

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367190819_Engage_Interview_Part_1

The Blue Homeland is uniting the Turkish youth

The Role of “explaining” and “understanding” in International Relations: knowledge and the “elusive” quest for an acceptable explanation

Just a description here for copyright reasons

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359947109_The_Role_of_explaining_and_understanding_in_International_Relations_knowledge_and_the_elusive_quest_for_an_acceptable_explanation

Review: Geopolitics Takes No Prisoners

https://www.jstor.org/stable/48505574

Economic Interdependence & International Conflict: Some Cross-National Evidence

jstor.org/stable/2600435