A longstanding antipathy towards "forever wars" has led the U.S. President Joe Biden to announce on April 13 the withdrawal of U.S. troop from Afghanistan by September 11 this year, – a symbolic date that matches the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the P...
It is encouraging to see how a science-based approach to predicting events works in practice. One example is the author's theoretical forecast which is a month old, that seems to be starting to take shape.
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Amid geopolitical and pandemic turbulence, there is a clear rising trend of regionalization which can be regarded as a form of a new multi-vector approach. In the first approximation, such format can be described as an informal "club of interests" when global (regional) actors form a co...
Following the topic of the Quadrilateral security dialogue (Quad) between the US, India, Australia and Japan highlighted in the article статье, I drew attention to the article "A Quad-plus-6 Indo-Pacific strategy" by my Indian colleague Namrata Hasija, a research fellow at the Centre fo...
From the first days of taking office, US President Joe Biden has been actively demonstrating that his policy will be radically different from Trump's, including in such an important area as national security.
The existing US National Security Strategy was adopted in December 2017 and f...
The US President's Inauguration is the Final Act of the Political Cycle in the Country and the World
For the first time in the U.S. history the election of the Head of State questioned the stability of democratic institutions in the country. Unprecedented security measures make this once-commemorative show disquieting and unsaid.
At the same time, domestic events are bringing the Unit...
The missile strike of the US Air Force drones, authorized by the US President D. Trump, on the motorcade, in which the commander of a special unit of "Quds" of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, and a deputy head of the Iraqi Shiite militia Mahdi a...
Over the past decades, the issue of fake information in India has become a serious problem. And although the country has a stable and well-deserved reputation as one of the world's IT leaders, until recently, the authorities paid relatively little attention to both the introduction of c...
10 years after the Green Revolution of 2009 and two years after the events of 2017-2018, Iran has again been overwhelmed by a wave of mass violent protests. This time, the formal reason was a 2-fold increase in gasoline prices and restrictions on the sale of fuel. Spontaneous demonstrat...
The expert circles and the society of Belarus received with great interest the speech of the President of Kazakhstan K.-J. Tokayev on September 2, 2019 with the Address to the People of Kazakhstan.
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Since 2014, the influence of populist political organizations and right-wing movements in European countries has grown.
Their distinguishing features include: nationalist slogans; intolerance towards immigrants, members of national and sexual minorities; European scepticism – sceptic o...
