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...
New Multiple Vectors as Resilience Factor of Small and Medium-Sized Countries in Post-Pandemic World
A comparative analysis of the outcomes of two international events held in November 2020 and March 2021 prompted a return to the multiple vectors despite the clear and unambiguous emphasis placed by the head of state on this issue at the 6th All-Belarusian People's Assembly. Moreover, t...
Today, the issue of the historical past interpretation is not just important, it has acquired a new dimension. Under the existing political turbulence, historical coincidences are being sought for contemporary developments in more liberal, sometimes even irresponsible, way. Spatio-tempo...
Amid increasing recognition of the Asia and Pacific region (APR) as the engine and center of future global development and growth, it is important to highlight the historic event held on March 12 – the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue virtual summit at the level of the United States, Jap...
The concepts of peripheral capitalism (PC) have a distinct genetic link with the "parent" theories of economic growth which, however, are developed with the main emphasis being made on the industrialized countries that have passed the entire trajectory of capital formation. Under such a...