World War II: Seventy years after
Few events have had such a deep impact on world history as the conflict that griped the international system seventy years ago. As all great power wars in the last five hundred years it started in...
View ArticleAppeasement
The term appeasement is unpopular today both in politics and in academia as it is associated with the policy pursued by France and Great Britain towards Nazi Germany in the 1930s. The highpoint of this...
View ArticleThe End Game: the consequences of World War II
It is said that when asked about what he thought of the French Revolution, the Chinese foreign minister Zhu Enlai replied that it is too early to say. This famous quip about the French Revolution can...
View ArticleThe perils of arming Russia
The last week’s visit to France of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has further strengthen Franco-Russian, while at the same time endangering European security. During this visit France and Russia...
View ArticleThe blue-print of the future NATO Strategic Concept: Some comments and views
NATO has released last week a report containing the outline of the future NATO Strategic Concept that will be adopted at the Alliance summit this year in Lisbon. Although this is not even a draft of...
View ArticleThe blue-print of the future NATO strategic concept: organizational and...
Three months a go I have published on this blog an analysis of the experts’ report concerning the future NATO strategic concept to be adopted in Lisbon, in late 2010. That analysis dealt mainly with...
View ArticleThe blue-print of the future NATO strategic concept: future missions and...
I continue the presentation and analysis of the experts’ report on the future NATO strategic concept, an endeavor which I have began in May, with the section dedicated to the future missions and...
View ArticleThe Weimar Triangle – Between a moderate regional success and an uncertain...
Where Does It Come From? What Is It? Where Is It Going?* Motto: Tres faciunt collegium [three makes company] The Weimar Triangle is soon to celebrate its twentieth anniversary. With a mixed record of...
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