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Samir Awwad: The creation of a common market in order to fight poverty in the region has been reported for almost two years. With Turkey heading the efforts to stabilize the area to its east the Greater Middle East witnessed a peaceful comeback of the Secular-Muslim Republic laying the ground for drying out most of coming crisis potential that would affect the PKK, Iran, Kazakhstan and the Muslim communities spreading to Chinas eastern border.The Georgian approach ...More
Stefan Wolff: South Ossetia might well become Georgia’s Chechnya. The current escalation of military hostilities has put the likelihood of a sustainable settlement off even further. The European Union is the best-placed conflict manager in the South Caucasus.
As
fighting in the separatist region of South Ossetia in Georgia
escalates, with Russian air force attacking military targets inside
Georgia and Abkhazian rebels in another break-away region of Georgia
launching attacks against Georgian military installations, the South
Caucasus seems on the brink of a major military confrontation between
Georgia and Russia and its allies. The current hostilities are the
culmination so far of ...More
Tamuna Kekenadze: On Saturday morning, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili requested the Parliament to endorse his decision on declaring martial law on the entire territory of Georgia. The Parliament has approved the presidential decree immediately.
Georgia
is currently under heavy attack from the Russian Federation for its
attempt to fight back against the aggression of South Ossetian separatist armed
groupings which are backed by volunteer armed groups from Russia, and Russian
military aircrafts, which have heavily bombed the Georgian territory for two
days from South Ossetia to the Black Sea, killing civilians. Clearly, Georgia
is in the state of war. Georgian government is ...More
Ari Rusila: Kosovo’s unilateral proclamation of independence played a key role in events we see in South Ossetia today. Do we still have time to close the Pandora box and if yes - how?
Georgia
launched a major military offensive against South Ossetia on Friday in
a bid to regain control of its breakaway province. The total death toll can already be as high
as
1400 including some Russian peacekeepers. Kosovo’s unilateral proclamation of independence from Serbia
last February played a key role in these developments. Whether this has created a legal precedent or
not, but realpolitik takes its course regardless. The claim of ...More
From the Editorial Team: Georgia and Russia are on the brink of a full-fledged war. How should the European Union, NATO and individual Western governments respond to the current crisis?
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili says that Georgia is under attack and that Georgian forces have shot down four Russian aircraft. CNN provides a video interview.
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said according to the BBC that Moscow was receiving reports that villages in South Ossetia were being ethnically cleansed. And President Medvedev warned: "I must protect the life and dignity of Russian citizens wherever they are. (...) ...More
Li Yu: I think the Party will try their great effort to take the Olympics as a good opportunity to show their achievement during the past half century, but for me, I hope this could be a good chance for the world to know more about Chinese culture, Chinese people, and our real life.
After reading Foreign Minister Steinmeier‘s insightful article Our Wish List For China, I'd like to say something as a native Chinese about changes of our life and our "wish list" for China, which may be a bit more detailed.
First let's start with the dramatic changes, which have happened in China during the last years. I still remember the failure in our bidding for 2000 Olympics in 1992. I was only a primary student at that time. The ...More
Heinrich Bonnenberg: The need to reduce CO2 emissions, manage price increases, and deal with resource shortages is causing the energy economy to change. Electricity should eventually replace oil and gas. Nuclear power will have to play an increasingly important role in the new electricity economy.
Today in Germany, nuclear power is barely
significant. For starters, electricity only represents 20 percent of the energy
consumed. The remaining 80 percent is drawn from oil and gas for heating houses and driving cars. In addition,
only 33 percent of the electricity consumed is produced by means of nuclear
power. The largest share, 63 percent, results from burning coal, lignite and gas and the remaining 4 percent from
renewable energy ...More
Joseph S. Nye: If the US wants to remain powerful, strong ties to the world’s emerging powers are crucial. Improved relations between the US and India could provide the basis for China’s international integration.
George W. Bush is approaching the end of his presidency mired in low popularity ratings, which partly reflects his policies in the Middle East. But Bush leaves behind a better legacy in Asia. American relations with Japan and China remain strong, and he has greatly enhanced the United States’ ties with India, the world’s second most populous country.
In 2005, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice prepared a visit to Delhi by Bush. The following ...More
valentine anatolevich akishkin: The economic downturn and the rise of new centers of power will lead to a shift in US foreign policy doctrine, allowing the country to readjust itself to new world challenges by employing more agreeable and less costly means.
The United States are not in for prompt changes, regardless of who becomes president. John McCain will remain adherent to Bush’s misgiving policy, insisting that Bush’s efforts were well-weighed but poorly carried out. Many Americans would be happy to learn that things like the war in Iraq were not an idiotic disregard of common sense, but a well considered plan that may still pay off. A great number of ...More
Grigol Ubiria: NATO’s eastern enlargement is too often solely considered from the perspective of Russia’s right to defend its interests on its borders. Little or no attention has been paid to factors forcing former Soviet republics, particularly Georgia and Ukraine, to rush to join the alliance.
Russian political mentality has been extremely reluctant to
accept the fact that the Soviet Union ‘passed away' over a decade ago and that Russia is no longer
the only major player in the post-Soviet sphere. Russia's
former president and current prime minister, Vladimir Putin even lamented the
breakup of the Soviet Union as "the greatest
geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century." Under the ...More
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