The foreign ministers of Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq said on Monday after meeting in Amman said the government in Damascus should re-establish the rule of law on all of Syria’s territory, ending the presence of foreign armed groups and terrorists,. Jordan hosted the meeting, the first of …
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3 May
Ukraine War Shifts to Economic Warfare
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, realized early, in his country’s invasion of Ukraine, that adversaries do not always fight wars on a battlefield. The realization that Russian military superiority could not easily overcome Ukraine’s moral superiority and its defensive capabilities succeeded the recognition by Ukraine’s NATO allies that Russia could not …
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3 May
The Concept And The Causes Of War
There are many definitions and/or understandings of war. However, from the very academic point of view, war can be understood as an armed conflict between at least two sides usually but not necessarily states fought usually for some (geo)political goals. The focal conceptual idea of war is the use of …
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3 May
The Coming War: Speak Up, Now
In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists’ to discuss the ‘rapid crumbling of capitalism’ and the beckoning of another war. They were electric …
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3 May
The president is allergic to any idea of uniting the opposition: Will and how will Vučić’s political engineering work to split the right?
The president of the SNS, who also serves as the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, is generally allergic to any idea of uniting the opposition, and this is one of the few things that worry and scare him. With the fact that now the situation is partly even more unpleasant …
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2 May
Hezbollah behind roadside bomb in Israel last month, Israeli official says
Lebanon’s Hezbollah was behind a rare roadside bomb attack last month that wounded a motorist in northern Israel, Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said on Friday. Israel’s military said that security forces had killed a man carrying an explosive belt after he apparently crossed from Lebanon into Israel and …
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2 May
Sudan’s Generals Are Dragging the Country Toward Disaster
Only Civilian Leaders Can Forge a Path to Peace Only Civilian Leaders Can Forge a Path to Peace Less than five years into its halting journey toward democracy, Sudan is spiraling toward protracted civil war. On April 15, fighting erupted between the country’s two main security organs, the army and …
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2 May
Limits And Challenges To China-Russia Cooperation In Eurasia – OpEd
For a number of years, China and Russia have worked together in the Eurasian area, concentrating on a variety of economic, political, and strategic challenges. In reaction to a changed geopolitical environment in which both nations have come under greater pressure from the United States and its allies, the two …
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2 May
Putin Hardly Can Offer Kazakh Leadership Anything Other Than Joining Him And Lukashenko In Anti-Western Trenches – Analysis
The Novaya Gazeta Europe newspaper, in an article posted on its website on 24 April 2023, said: “The European Union has been working on plans for strengthening its ties with Brazil, Chile, Nigeria, and Kazakhstan, countries that are amicable with Russia, Politico reports. According to the media outlet, the EU’s …
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2 May
Will Sub-Saharan Africa Ultimately Surpass India And China In Population Growth? – Analysis
India and China, the world’s two most populous nations with over 1.4 billion people each, are expected to be outranked by sub-Saharan Africa in the 2030s. A new analysis by the Washington-based Population Reference Bureau (PRB) released last week indicates that while India’s population will soon eclipse China’s, its growth …
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