This September marked one year of Kazakhstan's presidency in the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia – (CICA), an international forum for enhancing confidence among Asian countries and concerted search for solutions to regional security issues. In addition...
On the eve of the next anniversary of the end of World War II, descendents of the winning countries again emphasize the need to protect the historical truth and resist the distortion of its outcomes. This is the issue of close attention not only in the West, but also in the East. The As...
Internationalization of education and educational services export are the leading trends in the field of higher education at the national and supranational levels. Modern educational services have become a kind of information product that states offer on the market. In this sense, the a...
Recently, much emphasis in various sources including foreign has been given to the multi-vectoral approach of the Belarusian foreign policy. No wonder that this narrative was separately expressed in the Head of State's address at the opening of the 6 All-Belarusian People's Assembly: "W...
In the context of assessing the Great Game rules, special attention should be given to South-East Asia (SEA) or the ASEAN region, which plays an important role in the global economic and political discourse. Recently, there is an increasing number of positive forecasts about prospects f...
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...
"Si vis pacem, para bellum" ("If you want peace, prepare for war") – Cornelius Nepos
Amid noticeable enhancement of multi-format global peacekeeping initiatives in Afghanistan, broad efforts of regional players, such as Uzbekistan, on this vector, and signs of a certain relaxation in K...
A reduced growth in the world economy that revealed in 2019, continued in 2020. Contrary to popular stereotype that the reason for the recession were the COVID-19 pandemic and associated social tensions and political turbulence in a number of countries, experts only tell us about intens...
The issue of denationalization raised by shill experts is often translated into the ideological framework with an a priori judgment that private companies are supposedly more efficient, and the change of owners itself has a positive impact on the level and rate of economic growth. But i...
