In my last article I had stated that the main interest of the countries of the region in the deliberations of the SCO summit would be the manner in which they handled the question of the granting of membership to the four countries-Pakistan, India, Iran and Mongolia – which now […]
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Obama’s Drawdown Speech: SCO Faces the Afghan Challenge
The United States President Barack Obama’s drawdown speech will not stand out in the volume of his selected works as an outstanding piece of oratory. The rhetorical flourish of “On the Way Forward in Afghanistan” was definitely below par. On the other hand, Obama knew the occasion is not one […]
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation`s Impact on the Region
On June 15th the Shanghai Cooperation organisation will have its Summit meeting in Astana marking the 10th Anniversary of its founding.This organisation that brings together the two major powers of the region – China and Russia – had its origin in a Chinese initiative to enhance cooperation between the newly […]
Warming Ties With Russia
President Asif Ali Zardari made history. His three-day official visit to the Russian Federation on 12-14 May, first after 1974 from Pakistan side, is an important step toward re-directing the contours of Pakistan’s foreign policy that is now more enmeshed with resource diplomacy such as energy needs. Pakistan is just […]
Russia In The Mirror Of World Policy
By Tatyana Tallerova (Russia) Last year Russia not only managed to establish and consolidate its positions at the international arena, but also set the foundation for the further growth of the state authority in 2011. The most important event was the creation of the Customs Eurasian Economic Union of Russia, […]
Who Will Stop Civil War in Afghanistan?
During the last weeks Afghanistan is smoothly getting back to international focus. There were so many interesting events scarcely covered by the mainstream media around Afghan affairs. We will try to scrutinize the situation, analyze real motives of the key players and elaborate a forecast on what will happen next […]
The Modern World: New Realities. Part 3.
Vyacheslav NIKONOV (Russia) Part 1, Part 2 5. But how does Russia position itself in this new global reality? The strategy proposed first by Gorbachev and then by Yeltsin was that Russia should become part of the Western system. Gorbachev proceeded from the concept of a “common European home;” Yeltsin […]
The Modern World: New Realities. Part 2.
Vyacheslav NIKONOV (Russia) Part 1 2. Another aspect of the modern world is the fact that it quite clearly has resumed the militarization of international relations. After the collapse of the USSR and the end of the bipolar confrontation, military spending actually decreased, and it happened everywhere—not just in the […]
The Modern World: New Realities. Part 1.
Vyacheslav NIKONOV (Russia) After World War II and up until the late 1980s, the world was bipolar, with two centers of power. One of them was the Soviet Union, which at its height controlled a significant part, although not the greater part, of humanity. The gross domestic product of the […]
The Geopolitics behind the phoney US war in Afghanistan
William Engdahl One of the most remarkable aspects of the Obama Presidential agenda is how little anyone has questioned in the media or elsewhere why at all the United States Pentagon is committed to a military occupation of Afghanistan. There are two basic reasons, neither one of which can be […]
When the Allies Withdraw…
Ivan Safranchuk When discussing the situation in Afghanistan, the details – percentages of territory and who controls it, percentage of increases or decreases in opium poppy – do not really matter… More important is the broader regional situation. And here the only available constant is that the situation in Afghanistan […]
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