Joseph E. FALLON The reality of ”international relations” remains as Thucydides first described them in his History of The Peloponnesian War - ”right…is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”1 To counter the threat posed … [Read more...]
SUA, Turcia şi criza sistemului occidental
Tiberio GRAZIANI Arhivat de istorie, momentul unipolar şi sistemul occidental ghidat de SUA, pare a fi intrat într-o criza ireversibila. Colapsul economico-financiar şi pierderea unui pilon de siguranţa al edificiului geopolitic occidental precum Turcia confirmă sfârşitul înaintării energice … [Read more...]
Obama Administration’s Economic Policy: Targets and Impact
Lucia DUGULEANA The present article discusses Barack Obama’s economic agenda in an attempt to determine their efficiency in overcoming the effects of the economic crisis and reaching their desired targets. It reflects on how the measures taken will influence the budget and external deficit. It also … [Read more...]
US Geopolitics and Budgetary Constraints: Mastering the World Ocean with Fewer and Fewer Capital Ships
Florin DIACONU The study starts by stating that along the entire world history, mastery of the World Ocean was a strategic goal which could be accomplished mainly by using a significant / large number of capital ships. For example, between 1689 and 1815, the almost complete control of the oceans … [Read more...]
Vectorii geopoliticii SUA generaţi de aplicarea principiilor Doctrinei Monroe
Tudor BLÂNDU Politica externă a SUA, în secolul al XIX-lea, a fost una dictată de circumstanțe, nu neapărat anticipată, ci unele doctrine aplicate în spiritul făcut de la început după obținerea independenței, dar nuanțată. sigur că, pentru Monroe, atitudinea Sfintei Alianţe a fost o amenințare la … [Read more...]
In Yahweh we Trust: a Divine Foreign Policy of The USA
Tomislav SUNIC It was largely the Biblical message that stood at the origin of the American endeavor to "make the world safe for democracy." Contrary to many European observers critical of America, America’s military interventions have never had as their sole objective the goals of economic … [Read more...]
Life is Always Filled with Sticky Windows
Robert Radu HERVIAN “The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults” wrote Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville, a 19th Century French historian and politician, famous for his in depth analysis of the American … [Read more...]
The Cyclical Course Of History in the U.S.
Gorraiz Lopez German The fickle and cyclical evolution of history, could make two U.S. presidents (separated in time by about 50 years), were united by economic recession and the wars that will receive as an inheritance. So, Obama and Kennedy would pass into hi. The cyclical course of History in … [Read more...]
The Strategic Dialogue Between USA and China (G-2)
Sergiu TAMAŞ After having belonged, for hundreds of years, to backward economic and technologic areas, China, India, Brazil and other emerging countries became the elements of some important economic growth, substantially contributing to global development. The most spectacular aspect of these … [Read more...]
Adjusting to a New Reality Regarding “Iran Issue”
Cătălina OLĂNEANU It is known that the relations between the United States and Iran began in the mid to late 1800s, but the hostility between these two countries appeared after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, when the pro-American Shah had been outset and replaced with the anti-American Supreme Leader … [Read more...]