Imagine that one morning you have to wake up in the middle of bombs, explosions and gunshots. You, like the majority of the population, have no choice but to escape to preserve your life. Taking a few supplies, he embarks on a journey through several countries. When it seems that you are far from danger,…
Previously, I have believed that a compromise with Vladimir Putin was possible. To a certain extent, I also believed that his demand that NATO cease its eastward expansion was reasonable, and that NATO could therefore compromise. In return, the United States and NATO could demand the withdrawal of Russian military cooperation in the Western Hemisphere,…
Does everyone want democracy? This is a thought-provoking question, and the title of a book by political anthropologist Paula L. W. Sabloff, where professor Sabloff offers her insights on the transition from Soviet-style communism to democracy in Mongolia. Her work advances some well documented answers to one of the most policy relevant questions of our…
Russia’s invasion to Ukraine with crimes of a “war of aggression” and “against humanity” has produced a confrontation in which no one is left on the fringes and not impacted by it. In our capitalist, globalized world in the midst of a 21st century technological revolution, while this war has a front of armed combat…
