Radu HERVIAN Benefiting as a partial winner in the Great War and one of the principal winners in the Second World War, the United States has become the emerging Superpower during the second part of the 20th Century. It lasted victoriously thru the Cold War, and into the present times and it is … [Read more...]
CAN PUTIN BE COUNTED AS STALIN 2.0? (An American Opinion)
Robert Radu HERVIAN In September 1796 the first President of the United States decided against his participation as a candidate for the third term in the upcoming elections and addressed the nation on this subject. Contemplating and comparing today the George Washington farewell address to the … [Read more...]
CONDUCTING DIALOGUES IN A FAST CHANGING WORLD
Robert Radu HERVIAN Tzvetan Todorov, a Bulgarian-French literary theorist and historian promoter of elaborate and interesting ideas, died recently in Paris at 77. His work during the past decades varied from fiction to fantasy, from colonialism to fanaticism and the Holocaust. He famously explained … [Read more...]
TERRIFYING CONSEQUENCES POSSIBLE IN THE US – EUROPEAN RELATIONS AFTER NOVEMBER 8th 2016
R. HERVIAN, ME Back at the beginning of the 90’s, in an intimate conversation, then President George H.W. Bush has discussed with Boris Yeltsin about a certain aspect in the American political speeches conducted while involved in the Presidential election campaign. He told his Russian counterpart … [Read more...]
CHALLENGES IN ASYMMETRIC CONFLICTS
http://www.obranaastrategie.cz/en/current-issue-1-2008/articles/asymmetric-warfare-slogan-or-reality.html#.WeTlGI9-pNA Robert R. HERVIAN * Who would have thought that the asymmetry on the military fields, and not only, will return with vengeance. Not only the asymmetry has not … [Read more...]
The Kurdish Problem: One Complication among Most Complicated Problems
Robert Radu, PhD Seldom in the history of the world, a people no matter how diverse and no matter how numerous has been able to simultaneously play the role of the ”good guy” along with the role of the ”bad guy”. To complicate the matter and make it even more difficult, neither has a country, is … [Read more...]
The Refugee Crisis: A Limited Impact in the United States
Radu HERVIAN, PhD* Criza refugiaţilor: un impact limitat în Statele Unite Actuala criză a refugiaţilor a produc un impact dramatic asupra peisajului global cu implicaţii specifice în Occident. Deplasările de oameni s-au numărat în milioane, cele mai mari de la Al Doilea Război Mondial, care s-a … [Read more...]
A Lesson in History: From the Bible to the Cyber Terrorism
Robert Radu HERVIAN The subject: the cyberspace war, a complicated, asymmetric and extremely diverse, an almost inhuman competition, involving the entire globe; a borderless globe, operating in cyberspace rather than on the ground, subject to no nation and impeded by no language barrier; above … [Read more...]
Multi-cultural Dialogue – a Dissipating Dream
A friend of mine has been teaching Mathematics for many years at a high school located in one of the most racially challenged neighborhoods of New York City. She is a very dedicated person and race was never a consideration or an obsession in her personal or professional life. In that recent day, … [Read more...]
New Hopes for EURAFTA – a European Union – American Trade Agreement –
Robert Radu HERVIAN Any study or analysis that has to do with the US-European relations and furthermore any perspective seen thru a western Atlantic window, would have to contemplate first, the American internal politics and surprisingly perhaps, not the geo strategic interests of the United … [Read more...]