Part I Inequality and characterizing poverty After WWII, the world experienced seven and a half decades of development policies and quite impressive global economic growth. However, the global polarization was and is increasingly making a deeper and deeper economic gap between rich and poor nations. A discipline of International Relations […]
Author: Vladislav B. SOTIROVIC
Global Inequality And How To Fight It (I)
It is a matter of very global fact that the world has witnessed since the end of the Cold War 1.0 during the last 30 years an increasing number of extremely rich people compared to ever seen before in history. To illustrate the case, at the beginning of the 21st […]
The European Union: Unity in Diversity or Unity vs Diversity? (II)
Part I In France, Spain Another example of a cultural restriction is a widely sounded decision in France, where all religious symbols were forbidden in schools. First of all, the human – rights of all kinds of religious groups were violated, the Muslim in the first place, as Islamic professor […]
The Political Phenomenon Of Boko Haram In West Africa (II)
Part I As for the question of the reasons for the radicalization of Boko Haram, there is no common agreement, the same contestation exists about the problem of how the emergence of this religious sect could be explained. Up to now, there are several hypotheses about this problem. For many […]
The European Union: Unity in Diversity or Unity vs Diversity? (I)
The concept of globalization is one of those concepts which is widely used in academic writings, debates in politics and sociology, and the media during the last three decades. Before the end of the Cold War in 1989/1990, even the term and notion of “globalization” have been relatively unknown but […]
Sociological And Political Aspects Of Terrorism (II)
Part I Political scientists and the “Old-style” and “New-style terrorism” For political scientists, there is a historical difference between the “Old-style” and “New-style terrorism”. Contemporary terrorism can be historically distinguished from acts of violence aimed to terrorize the people in some older periods of history as, for instance, the razing […]
Sociological And Political Aspects Of Terrorism (I)
The world, especially the Western part, became suddenly interested in studying the phenomenon of terrorism after September 11th, 2001 (9/11) when at 8:45 am a passenger airplane on its standard flying route across the USA became hijacked by terrorists and flown into the North Tower on the WTC in the […]
The 1973 Yom Kippur War And Its Political Consequences
This war is known as the Fourth Arab-Israeli War or by Arabs as the October War. It was the last great direct clash between Arab nations and Israel.[1] The results of the war, as well, influenced the process of radicalization of the PLO. This conflict is usually known as the […]
The Middle East On The Crossroad Of Civilizations (V)
Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV The world of Arabs The world of Arabs (the WoA) as a distinctive part of the globe is of extreme significance for both global politics and the global economy. On the other hand, this region is featured by slow democratic development, political […]
The Spanish Conquistadors And The First Genocide In Modern History (III)
Part I, Part II Hernán Cortés and the Aztec Empire in Mexico The Spaniards, like the Portuguese, moved quickly to exploit their late 15th-century/early 16th century discoveries. The settlement of Hispaniola started in 1493, partly in the hope of finding gold. However, the discovery of the Main coast opened alternative […]
The PLO And Arab Resistance In Palestine (IV)
Part I, Part II, Part III The Oslo 2 era Concerning the image and functioning of the PLO after the Oslo negotiating process, it had, in fact, a negative political effect. The Political Department of the PLO was left in Tunis when the rest of the organization was transferred to the […]
The Middle East On The Crossroad Of Civilizations (IV)
Part I, Part II, Part III What is Arab? To understand Arab culture and the values based on it are the crucial points for the proper understanding of the modern Middle East and its fundamental features. Nevertheless, it has to be noticed that all people in the region of the […]
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