Saudi Arabia-Iran confrontation, while stressing a clear interest in maintaining and expanding territorial control over the huge oil resources, must at least consider the following other factors affecting their behavior: a) a different religious creed (Sunni and Shiite), although within the Muslim … [Read more...]
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Scoţia: un nou stat independent?
2014 will be an important year in the history of Great Britain. A referendum on the independence of Scotland, once considered a nationalist dream, is now a certainty. If the people of Scotland vote yes, the implication will vibrate through Britain and beyond. The union between Britain and Scotland … [Read more...]
Tendinţe naţionaliste şi separatiste în Spania
If there were only 46 sovereign states in the beginning of the 20th century, during the first decade of next one hundred years, this total went over 200, from which 192 states were already members of the UN. New entries, such as West Timor (2002) and Montenegro (2006), have gained their independence … [Read more...]
А World in Motion – Case of Kosovo
Huntington's thesis of the Clash of Civilizations is adequate conceptual-theoretical and methodological framework for the explanation of the armed conflict in the late 20th and early 21st century, where it can serve as an example the war in Kosovo and the bombing of Serbia and the declaration of … [Read more...]
Ethnic Politics in the Balkans: The Double-Edged Sword
On 17 February 2008, Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia. The declaration was controversial; especially because it violated UN Resolution 1244 which authorized the Secretary General to provide an interim and transitional administration while establishing and overseeing the development of … [Read more...]
Fratele-i la poartă: Invazia Federaţiei Ruse în Crimeea şi prevederile dreptului internaţional
In this article the author tries to reveal the possible motivation of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, its political, economic and strategic aspects both external and internal. There has been revealed violation by Russia of basic documents of international law and bilateral ukrainian-russian … [Read more...]
Anexarea Peninsulei Crimeea de către Federaţia Rusă. Către un nou ciclu geopolitic
NATO enlargement, by the accession of Romania and Bulgaria, and the United States support of pro-Western elites in Ukraine and Georgia, induces the Russian Federation to consider itself "besieged", which determines a "pull-out" conduct of this newly created "rimland" component from the euroatlantic … [Read more...]
Renaşterea Poloniei în Europa franco-germană? – testarea triunghiului de la Weimar
Our paper intends to analyze the relations set between the Weimar Triangle (France, Germany and Poland) in the light its involvement in the Ukrainian crisis with the aim to understand the essence of EU geopolitics. Recent development made many to see an emergence of Poland as a new major European … [Read more...]
Ucraina – între Est şi Vest
Catalogată drept cel mai dur test pentru securitatea europeană din secolul XXI, criza din Ucraina a reprezentat un moment de răscruce în relaţiile dintre Rusia şi Occident, marcând începutul unei perioade de divergenţe între cele două părţi. Cu un aparat de stat slăbit, o economie în pragul … [Read more...]
Crimea and the End of the Unipolar World
Russia is too big to be integrated, too powerful to be restricted and too important be to ignored, and therefore must be associated in a multipolar global balanced order. Adrian Severin We wonder: Crimea remains an isolated event or a step toward redefining the role of Russia in the Eurasian … [Read more...]