Anna Maria Rada Leenders' Blog

The multi-theoretical analysis of the WHO’s creation, evolution, design, decision making process, modus operandi of institutional interactions, is evaluated in the context of the current Coronavirus epidemic. To what extent has the WHO been successful…

To slice through the ice sharp argumentation of the information campaign against Mr. Putin, is to reach for a ray of light. The truth, veritas, in its uncompromising way is the most important asset today. The role of President Putin and the elected…

October 2018 witnessed a wave of AI discussions at governmental levels around the world. A summary report of all EU states caught on the wave of the White House and Kremlin preoccupation with this already prevalent Chinese and Japanese advances in…

For a very long time Russia’s role was to defend the rest of the world from Europe. Since the end of the Cold War, Russia has been trying to facilitate the maintenance of peace and the development of order in the rest of the world. In the absence of…

Recently I attended an interesting lecture by Robert Legvold at MGIMO. Robert Legvold is an American professor from the renowned Columbia University Harriman Institute created in the Cold War era to study and counter the perceived Soviet threat. Legvold…

I do not wish to sound like a reactionary. However, the level of disenchantment amongst highly educated youth in the so called first world and general apathy fringing on delinquency due to boredom gives time and reason to create a new movement. Coupled…

Technology has historically proven to be a unifying power at first for state unification and subsequently for globalization. Today, at times of political discord, technology offers a new opportunity for coming together diplomatically. In order to develop…

“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.” (Aristotle, OTH, 271b8) Let us begin a new era of conceiving cooperation through Cosmos the ancient Greek term for order. Space it is so distant from the troubles we…

I have been honored with the opportunity to present my perspective. A freedom of speech is a liberty that I have rarely enjoyed to such a degree. For the first time in my life I feel completely free. Its not only because I am in favor of the Russian…

“Nature is a sea of forms, radically alike and even unique.” (Emerson)The image of Russia that arises is a vast natural expanse, sprinkled with churches, mostly of wooden materials, as that is all that was affordable following the Mongolian invasion…

The digital economy of Russia[1] In order to stimulate the Russian economy, a law was passed in 2003 to promote Russian technological advancement. The law is applicable to state-owned companies. The objective is to reduce reliance on foreign technology…

As society shifts toward increased digitization, from earning a living through digital platforms to the digitization of all aspects of the economy, the binary logic of industrial economy versus digital economy is replaced with a continuum of digitization…