One of my dearest geopolitics professors used to say that women are the most important resource of any country, but a resource frequently overlooked in geopolitical analysis and in the shaping of strategies. Most often, when this vital resource is taken into account, it is only done so by assessing the demographic potential of regeneration […]
Although there are many qualified opinions according to which the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was illegal because it was based on the desire to change the Iraqi regime and because it started in the absence of a clear UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution authorizing it, the UN, the only international organization that could decide […]
„Russia is neither East nor West, but something in between, independent and diverse” (Aleksander Dughin, „Fundamentals of geopolitics. Russia’s Geopolitical Future, Volume I”) Vladimir Putin’s third term at the Kremlin brings Russia’s new geopolitical project, stated in his article, „Россия и меняющийся мир” („Russia and the changing world”). Moscow’s foreign policy depends largely on geopolitics […]
This article was translated by Robert Chirita from Geopolitics.ro (Romanian) The United States of America has a new President in the person of former American President and the first African-American President in the history of the republic, Barack H. Obama II. The elections have shown, in a surprising way for some, the fact that despite […]
The article will analyze America’s current National Security Strategy (NSS 2010) from the point of view of neorealism, seeking to show the way in which the document confirms neorealism’s theoretical expectations. This attempt may seem problematic considering the apparent incompatibility between the centrality of systemic analysis in neorealism and the fact that the article will […]
Hypothesis: Due to the fact that Washington considers Iran to be nuclear armed, what gravity might have the US’ word in the region after it has been wrong in the case of Iraq? Iran-perceived as a powermaximizer from the realist point of view In the subsequent section would be outlined the reasons for perceiving Iran as […]
Belgium is one of the most developed western European countries, which has played and still plays an important role in the evolution of the European Union. It was one of the founding members of the EU and its capital, Brussels, hosts the headquarters of EU and NATO institutions. It may seem curious that in this very […]
Translated by Ana Maria Miu Mackinder: „Whoever rules Eastern Europe shall rule the Heartland. Whoever rules the Hartland shall rule the Island of the World, and whoever rules the Island of the World shall rule the entire World. The deal between Romania and the US announced on the 3rd of May, 2011, and especially the agreement […]
The revolution in Libya is one of the most violent events in the entire Arab world so far. It has become a civil war with an important stake … oil. So far, Libya is just another state that has been struck by the powerful movements in the Islamic region. There are more than three weeks […]
The recent opening of the nuclear plant in Bushehr together with the rumors that the International Atomic Energy Agency can prove that Iran has a military nuclear program, draw attention over the ‘Iranian problem’, at a global level. However, is it really a problem? According to the US President, Barack Obama, George W. Bush was […]