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What is right vs. what works

... not saying that what is right is always in contrast to what works, but today, it seems that it is. While promoting self determination and democracy among nations may be the right thing to do, it is clearly not working in the current form in The Middle East/North Africa. It works effectively in more monotheistic nations where the population can easily join together to support one cause (eg. Japan post WW2). It is based on the notion that humans have inalienable rights, not given by any government, but ...

05.10.2015

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Avoiding a New Bipolarity — What Can We Learn From the Recent Past?

It was only a couple of years ago that most mainstream experts and politicians in the East and in the West shared the common view that the world was moving towards a multi-polar system. Of course, many disagreements arose about the speed of this advance, the specific parameters of the new system, its building blocks, the rules of the game ...

15.09.2015

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Poll conducted

In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?

U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements	33 (31%)
U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity	30 (28%)
U.S. wants to dissolve Russia	24 (22%)
U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China	21 (19%)