Cosmin Gabriel Păcuraru Imaginea din satelit a momentului Republica Moldova este cea mai săracă țară europeană și cam de șapte ori mai mică decât România (și ca teritoriu și ca populație), având PIB-ul cam 4% din PIB-ul românesc. Aproximativ 15% … [Read more...]
INTERVENŢIA EUROPEANĂ ÎN LIBIA ŞI ROLUL SĂU ÎN SCHIMBAREA REGIMULUI POLITIC
Siraj KHAWELDI* PREZENTARE GENERALĂ Lumea arabă a cunoscut în ultimii ani multe evenimente în care populaţia a jucat un rol important în înlăturarea unor regimuri politice dictatoriale, aflate de multă vreme la guvernare. Mişcările populare din state precum Tunisia, Egipt, Yemen şi Siria au … [Read more...]
Semnal editorial: „NAȚIONALISMUL ȘI EUROPA NAȚIUNILOR”, autor Gl. prof univ. dr. Mircea Chelaru
Naționalismul cuprinde, in nuce, narațiunea istorică a unui popor, expresia epocală (pe epoci) a impulsului său pasionar. Studierea naționalismului este de aceea una dintre căile spre cunoașterea năzuințelor secrete ale elitelor care ajung în fruntea propriilor popoare. Naționalismul este o ieșire … [Read more...]
Neutralitatea Republicii Moldova: argumente geostrategice, geopolitice și geoeconomice
Andrei Fortuna, lect. dr. Universitatea de Studii Europene din Moldova Republic of Moldova has a disputed neutral status, which creates more problems then advantages. The country doesn’t respect all rights and duties of a neutral power, defined in a Hague Convention of 1907 year. As a permanent … [Read more...]
THE WORLD IS IN THE MIDST OF A ”NEW OLD” COLD WAR. HERE’S HOW
Wajahat QAZI The cliché that ”there are no permanent friends or enemies in international politics” holds a searing resonance and echo in the contemporary times. Even though not very significant, from the ”grand chessboard” view and perspective of politics, the impermanence of friends and enemies … [Read more...]
”PAX AMERICANA”, APPARENTLY IN DANGER. QUESTIONING THE NEW US DOCTRINE: ”AMERICA FIRST”
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...]
INTERESUL STRATEGIC AL FEDERAŢIEI RUSE ÎN ORIENTUL MIJLOCIU – PARTE A UNEI STRATEGII DE TIP „MASKIROVKA”
Marian ŞTEFAN Alexandru PINTILI Abstract. To show interest in an area that appears to be under the influence and interests of others, the Russian Federation had to delimit the old paradigms and build viable strategies, not necessarily new, in order to achieve the surprise. At first glance of … [Read more...]
MILITARY ASPECTS OF JURISDICTION AND OVERALL CONTROL ON A FROZEN CONFLICT AREA IN SOUTH CAUCASUS
Dr. Hari BUCUR-MARCU* Abstract. In 2012, I accepted to have a look upon a specific situation in the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. My task was to determine if the authorities of the Republic of Armenia were exercising or not any overall control upon the respective entity with military … [Read more...]
THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT: BACKGROUND AND PROSPECTS
Vahram TER-MATEVOSYAN, PhD* During the final years and after the collapse of the Soviet Union a number of violent conflicts erupted in different parts of its territory. The South Caucasian region has experienced three ethnically rooted conflicts (Abkhazian, South Ossetian and the Nagorno-Karabakh … [Read more...]
SOCIO-ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF TERRITORIAL CLAIMS TO NAGORNO-KARABAKH
Saffyia MEHBALIYEVA* Abstract. At the beginning of 1988 the Republic of Armenia laid unfounded territorial claims against Azerbaijan in order to occupy Nagorno-Karabakh (Nagorno-Karabakh - it is Russian translation of ”Daghlig Garabagh” that means a mountainous part of Garabagh, that is, ”Upper … [Read more...]