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Category Archives: International Relations
Current Leaders in the West do not have the stature to deal with the likes of Putin
It is also due to a timid Western reaction to Russia’s initial military maneuvers on the Ukrainian border that Putin felt encouraged to send troops to the Crimea. Continue reading
Wouldn’t a referendum on national unity make sense now?
We can’t quite understand why none of the relevant politicians in and outside Ukraine wants to discuss the option of a national referendum on unity in this post-revolution scenario. After all, it is clear that Ukraine cannot continue to operate in the same the way it has done ever since it reached its independence. Continue reading
The UN Security Council at its best
The international community has agreed on a UN based procedure according to which the Assad regime will be forced to surrender all its chemical weapons to international control. Thus, diplomacy has finally managed to find a way out of the impasse that it was steering itself into in Syria WMD issue. Continue reading
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This is worse than Colin Powell
By not even asking for a UN mandate in Syria the US is undermining the credibility of any UN based collective security management so much that its questionable whether the latter can continue to operate from here on. Continue reading
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Our hat goes off to the British parliament
Underlying the Syrian civil are two major conflicts of historical proportions: – the antagonism between Sunnis and Shiites, and the fight between modern and fundamentalist islam. If at all, tt will take the moral weight of the entire international community, including Russia and China to pacify these conflicts. Continue reading
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Hysteria is no substitute for level-headed statesmanship
The argument in favor of a military intervention in Syria is flawed. It is not true that a failure to punish the use of chemical weapons in that country would encourage other dictators to follow suit. Continue reading
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Nation-state versus collective security arrangements
How legitimate is it to invoke the will of an international community when it is the nation-state with its power interests that continues to be the ultimate point of reference? Continue reading
This is not a coup!
The illegality accusation against the toppling of Egyptian president Mursi is inadequate. Continue reading
Citizens of the international community
The tax minimization policies of multinational companies reflect a new reality. We no longer live within the limits of the old nation-state. Instead we have now become international creatures whose allegiances transcend the traditional limits of patriotism. Continue reading
Kim Jong-un between Sun Tzu and Nicolo Machiavelli
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