Due to Russia’s war against Ukraine, the Visegrád group has fallen into a diplomatic ice age. What does this mean in regard to the preparations for the 2022 Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union?
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The Old, the New and the Unknown – Russia, China and India in the ‘Race for the Arctic’
The Arctic has experienced a geographical and geopolitical opening over the last decades, involving more and more players in political, commercial and military Arctic affairs. Russia, China and India have become more active in the region and have increased the geostrategic potential for both cooperation and conflict.
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Which Role Does Neo-Eurasianism Play for Russia’s Foreign Policy in Central Asia?
Since the USSR’s dissolution, Russia has experienced a continuous debate about its national identity and great power status. To create an alternative national idea, the Kremlin has adapted its Eurasianist rhetoric to ideological demands of the public as well as strategic implications of anti-globalist foreign policy. However, its moves can be largely explained through political opportunism.
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After the War, Before the Peace: How to Move on in South Sudan
As the principles of the ‘responsibility to protect’, self-defence and the abiding of national sovereignty have failed in the past UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, a future approach accompanying the current ceasefire must be both critical and realist.
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Chinese ‘Win-Win’ Cooperation – Economic Incentive or Political Illusion?
China promotes its ‘win-win cooperation’ based on economics. Others claim it to be a political move to influence less developed countries. Besides this general ideological dispute, the genreal concept has to be questioned.
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China’s Relations with Russia & Central Asia – A Game of Gas and Goodwill
While both the relations between China and Russia as well as the Central Asian states are largely depending on energy investments from the Chinese side, the economic and political background varies. This analysis assesses the various obstacles to a sustainable cooperation between the countries.
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Inside or Outside the ‘Russian World’? – Estonian and Kazakhstani Language Policy towards Russophone Minorities
Moscow has tied the national compatriot identity inseparably to its own Russian-speaking diaspora. With the recent notion of military crises in the Russian territorial neighbourhood, geopolitical fears have grown in both the Baltics and Central Asia. Still, the question of how Moscow-friendly and secessionist the Russophone minorities in both regions are, remains largely unanswered.
This article is focusing on the comparison of two regional actors in the post-Soviet nationalisation process by comparing the language policies of Estonia and Kazakhstan since their independence from the USSR.
An Idyl of Idleness? – The German Grand Coalition and its Necessity for Structural Economic Reforms
The present economic policy of the German government seems to fulfil neither the calls of experts nor the expectations of the electorate. From the investment point of view, German core industries, such as the electronic and metal industries, on the one hand are treading water and falling behind in international competitiveness while sunrise industries and start-ups on the other hand are lacking a sufficiently funded and developed digital infrastructure. A recent report about national telecommunication connectivity put Germany even behind Albania. An ongoing sell-out of domestic medium-scale companies in future sectors such as solar power and robotics to investors from abroad, especially China, has further threatened German innovative performance.
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Concurrence and Cohesion – The Balkan and Baltic States in China’s ’16+1′ Format
The Chinese charm offensive of ’16+1′ in Central and South-Eastern Europe has led to newly gained self-confidence for a region that was long time subject to either foreign rule or peripheral neglect.
This analysis assesses the roles played by EU and non-EU members inside the grouping by comparing the interacting roles of two smaller European regions – the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) and the Western Balkan States (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia) with Beijing.
Die israelische U.S.-Botschaft und der völkerrechtliche Status Jerusalems
Am 70. Jahrestag der Gründung des Staates Israel, wurde die neue U.S.-Botschaft in Jerusalem offiziell eröffnet. Die UN-Generalversammlung beschloss daraufhin eine entsprechende Gegenresolution.
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