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A NEW COLD WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE WEST?
Recent crisis between Russian Federation and USA/EU in Ukraine and Syria let some academics and journalists to talk boldly and write extensively on the concept of “New Cold War”. In this article, I will
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LITHUANIA: A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE EU OR A CONTRIBUTED ONLY?
Introduction The Second World War was the most destructive war humankind has even seen. Europe was the most damaged continent of the war. After the war, the continent was devastated either economically or physically.
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GEOPOLITICAL REALITIES IN THE CASPIAN REGION IN THE CONTEXT OF SHAPING OF NEW WORLD ORDER
World political map, formed in the early XXI century, increasingly resembles an utterly motley mosaic, where world and regional powers are neighboring small states that are affected by global and inter-civilizational problems, in one
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WHY DID RUSSIA TERMINATE THE TREATY ON CONVENTIONAL ARMED FORCES IN EUROPE?
The news about Russia’s unilateral termination of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe caused confusion among Western nations. This step triggered discontent among not only foreign countries, but also internally among opposition
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NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT: ETHNIC SECURITY DILEMMA OR NOT?
Introduction The collapse of imperial regimes can be profitably viewed as a problem of emerging anarchy.[1] The weakening and later absence of the central state (USSR) as the sovereign in the Caucasus, resulted in
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WHY DID THE BALTIC STATES DID BUILD STRONG STATEHOOD BUT THE CIS COUNTRIES FAILED?
Background and Problem: State building is a process referring to the development of an organization capable of effectively commanding authority over a national territory, an entity that can enforce laws and provide basic services
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PROBABILITY OF A NUCLEAR WAR
For over six decades ”Sword of Damocles” is hanging over the humanity manifested in a threat of a nuclear clash of the big powers. In the event of a nuclear war between the U.S.
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THE BIRTH OF PAN-TURKISM
Pan-Turkism can be defined as a movement that emerged in 1880s among the Turkic intellectuals of the Russian Empire and Ottoman Empire, with the aim of cultural and political unification of all Turkic peoples.[1]
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THE IMPLICATION OF THE CASPIAN REGION WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF NEW ENERGY ORDER
In the aftermath of collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, several arguments have been put forward in order to define the new system of the world. One of these arguments has been the
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TURKEY-BLACK SEA ECONOMIC COOPERATION (BSEC) RELATIONS
Introduction The end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s was a period of major changes that dramatically upset strategic balances, brought an end to an era of bipolarity and as a
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