Content: Local, homegrown terrorism and organized crime in the Western societies - Aleksandar Atanasov The Cold Peace: Why did the West embark on a NATO enlargement that threatened to destabilise a fragile Russian Federation? - Brock S. Cullen-Irace The Ukraine debacle: How the first conventional war in Europe for over 80 years is reshaping the... Continue Reading →
The Crisis in Ukraine, and the Russian perspective of the “Borderland”
by Bryan Rivas Disclaimer: Almost the entire text was written prior to the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Thus, it does not deal with the invasion itself, but rather the causes that ultimately led to it. Introduction In the past couple of weeks, the biggest developments in Ukraine since the Euromaidan protests have... Continue Reading →
Authoritarianism in times of pandemics
The COVID-19 coronavirus caught the world unprepared. No one expected a pandemic in 2020, and this is clear from the reactions of states and their leaders. Some, such as Brazil's leader Jair Bolsonaro and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, waved dismissively and called the disease a hoax. On the 27th of March, it became clear... Continue Reading →
Why should we blame it on Russia?
By Mia Babikyan & Alexander Stoyanov Every great story needs its villain. Human history makes no exception – generation after generation, people look for the villains of their time to use them as a scapegoat for their own actions. In the past ten years European history has had its unquestionable villain -Russia. The Kremlin has... Continue Reading →
Kyle Orton* on SDF and geopolitical balance between Russia, the US, and Turkey
This interview was published in De Re Militari English, Issue 2 – check it out here: De Re Militari ENG, Issue 2. De Re Militari (DRM): Not long ago, Putin said he would support Turkey's interests in Northern Syria if Erdogan recognizes Syria's territorial integrity. What does this statement mean for the SDF and more... Continue Reading →
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