Prof. dr. George HĂLĂRESCU Abstract. Criza refugiaţilor este o criză a civilizaţiei occidentale, deoarece arată capacitatea UE de a acţiona legal şi moral. Violarea drepturilor refugiaţilor, stipulată în convenţiilor internaţionale, finanţarea terorismului de către Turcia, Rusia şi SUA etc., şi … [Read more...]
”We are Supporting all the International Stakeholders Involved in Efforts to Bring Peace to The Middle East”
Interview with His Excellency Bogdan AURESCU, Minister of Foreign Affairs Your Excellency, Romania initiated diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1995. What was the reason for this and why hasn’t it done before 1989? Bogdan AURESCU: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia did not have … [Read more...]
Politica de îngrădire a Rusiei şi conflictul ucrainean – scurtă analiză –
Vladimir Putin, a proponent of Realpolitik, had triggered in 2014 a series of events in the Black Sea Crimean Area by attaching and supporting the insurgents in eastern Ukraine. Although surprising, the Russian actions are justified both for historical reasons and especially through the concept that … [Read more...]
Ukraine – Let’s Think European
One of the most distressing aspects of the way the situation in Ukraine is dealt with is the regularity with which the fundamental nature of the aggressor’s political regime is ignored. Today’s Russia is certainly not Stalin’s - or even Brezhnev’s - USSR, nor is it Nazi Germany, Italy in Fascist … [Read more...]
Evoluţii geopolitice pe axa eurasiatică a Drumului Mătăsii
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the relations between Germany and Russia have experienced new dimensions, at the level of political and economic relations they became European allies in order to build a Eurasian economic conglomerate, which would have as centres Berlin and Moscow. In this respect … [Read more...]
Noua ecuaţie geostrategică navală în zona Asia-Pacific în perspectiva ruso-chineză – evaluări şi perspective
The Asia-Pacific region is clearly distinguished by the development of new geopolitical and geostrategic equations and, obviously, towards a multi polarity which will determine the Russian Federation to move absolutely freely in the area and, furthermore, on the entire Planetary Ocean. On the other … [Read more...]
Alternative la strategiile energetice eurasiatice ruse
European alternatives to gas imports from Russia are not very numerous. Europe is in an eternal discomfort related to high dependence on Moscow and Moscow is considering how to look for other customers but come bundled with other issues and implications. Therefore, European strategies trying to … [Read more...]
Europa post-Vilnius – de la vis la calvar
Tensions in Ukraine show that European diplomacy is weak and divided. Engaging in complicated projects, like the expansion into the former areas of the USSR, creates difficulties to EU. However, tensions in Ukraine illustrated us duplicitous policy of the EU and the ease of violating international … [Read more...]
Greater Black Sea Area: Challenges of History and Modernity – Interview with Professor Alla YAZKOVA [1. Published in Dialog of Seas Review, No.1, 2014] Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Alla YAZKOVA, Head of the Center for Black Sea – Mediterranean Studies of the Institute of Europe of the RAS in Moscow, tells about her institute’s scientific concerns related to the region of the Black and Mediterranean seas.
Geo-strategic aspects First of all, we need to determine what kind of region is that. Because both politics and scientific interpretation of political process bears two dimensions of it. The first one is the actual Black Sea region - the way it has been for centuries until the end of the Cold War … [Read more...]
Realităţi ideologice în Rusia contemporană. Axele geopolitice ale viitorului în viziunea lui Aleksandr Dughin
Aleksandr Dugin is one of the most influential Russian geopoliticians, in present. His philosophical and geopolitical visions about Russia's destiny in public space are projected after the fall of the Soviet Union. Called the „Vladimir Putin’s geopolitician”, Al. Dugin exert a powerful influence in … [Read more...]