He also worked as the permanent head of the Yekaterinoslav (Dnipropetrovsk) Historical Museum, and enriched the ideology of Ukrainian national statehood with a thesis about its origin from the medieval republic of the Dnieper Cossacks, the Zaporozhian Sich.
Do the attacks on the cities of Kharkiv, Kherson, and Mariupol resemble the policy of creating “decivilized” zones with the "carpet bombing" tactic used in Grozny and Aleppo? I wonder whether approaches based on "blondeness", "Slavism", and "Europeanism" or perspectives centered on "hegemony" and "power policy" will be decisive for Kiev’s future.
The room for maneuver in formulating policy for both South Korea and North Korea is further complicated by the range of outcomes that may arise from the conflict in Ukraine.
These Chinese sanctions were “unconventional” and included Lithuanian exports, EU products containing Lithuanian parts, as well as raw material imports from China.
For that, Iranian elites’ masterful political maneuvers and their use of the international balance of power to their advantage deserves a huge credit, but that’s a different story.
Other than global peace and conflict trends, the Russia-based concerns of 2020 have acted as a reminder of a crucial fact: Russian expansionism, essentially towards Europe, reminiscent of Cold War conflicts, can be reviewed along the concepts of conventionality/unconventionality, regularity/irregularity, or stability operations.
The foreign policy of Alexander I, regarded as the founder of the ministry, was characterized by the idea of building coalitions and deepening relations with European powers to promote the peaceful coexistence of European nations.
Principally, there exists the energy issue for members of NATO that are in the European Union (especially Germany), worrying Europe due to lingering uncertainties.
While the entire world is witnessing the largest attack of one country on another in Europe since World War II, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members are far from being decisive in condemning Russia for invading Ukraine.
Following the footsteps of European colonialists, the communist state-builders also look down on indigenous people in their frontier territories, treating them as incapable of self-rule, and, at the same time, extracting their resources.
The security architecture of the UN privileges the five permanent members of the UN Security Council; NATO, the world’s most significant military alliance, is under American leadership; and the EU, the largest trading bloc, is led by a Franco-German alliance.