Power Struggle between China and the United States: Lessons of History by L. Estachy

“…The paper will deal with the recent developments of this hegemonic struggle: within the American establishment, the Pentagon and the US Department of Commerce have regained control over «Wall Street» which has resulted in an updated version of the US military-industrial complex, with China replacing the USSR in a new "cold war". Complex strategies are developped on both sides, involving manufacturing, technology, trade, financial, diplomatic and military issues. …”
Get full text

“Yeni Terörizm”in Geleceğin Güvenlik Ortamına Etkileri: Daeş Örneği by Selim KURT

“…Terrorism is not a modern phenomenon, although it is often engaged in the international political agenda, especially in the post-Cold War world. There is no doubt that the terrorist attack carried out by the nineteen Al-Qaida militants against the United States on September 11, 2001 was a complete breaking point for terrorism. …”
Get full text

Chinese Funding: A Curse to Africa by Chido T Chipfakacha

“…Though some scholars would suggest that China`s contribution was as a result of the hostility that was there in the times of the cold war between the self-acclaimed democrats of the Western bloc and the Communist Eastern bloc. …”
Get full text

The Origins of the Spy Myth: Portrayals of Gertrude Bell in Global and Turkish Historiography by Muhammed Nurullah Parlakoğlu

“…However, it can be contextualised within the broader influence of the Cold War and the rise of national concerns. Thus, the recent Turkish academic discourse portraying Bell as a “femme fatale” responsible for the downfall of the Ottoman Empire reflects not only national anxieties surrounding territorial integrity, but also the influence of broader historical interpretations.…”
Get full text

THE DUAL MODEL OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF GERMAN ARMED FORCES by A. Yu. Timofeev

“…The Bundeswehr becomes the armed forces which are intended for the usage at the global level and for the solution a large range of tasks, including ones which are atypical for the period of the «cold war». The reform of the Bundeswehr led to its real division of German armed forces into two components. …”
Get full text

NATO's approach to the Libyan crisis in the events of the «Arab spring» by E. A. Repeshko

“…This system had existed for many centuries and was adopted in the Westphalia Peace. The ending of the Cold War made the world see the new conditions whose distinctive feature was an increasing quantitative index of clashes. …”
Get full text

CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES REGARDING THE EXTENSION OF THE “NEW START” TREATY: CAN THE USA AND RUSSIA PRESERVE EXISTING STRATEGIC ARMS CONTROL? by Marina Kostic

“…Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on measures for further reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms (“New START”) is the last pillar of the arms control regime on which the end of the Cold War and the new world order rested. Its expiration on 5 February 2021 is a top security challenge and indicates a possible new strategic arms race. …”
Get full text

DEFENSE COOPERATION IN EUROPE: SUBREGIONAL LEVEL by Y. I. Nadtochey

“…It describes sub-regionalism as a phenomenon and explains the reasons why small states of Europe are eager to cooperate in defense area after the end of the Cold War. Such cooperation is analyzed within the broader context of European integration - a trend which still has a great impact on sub-regional cooperation in certain parts of a common EU and NATO space. …”
Get full text

Investigation and evaluation of economic variables affecting the national power of countries by Reyhaneh SalehAbadi, Mohammad Reza HafezNia, Seyyed Hadi Zarghani, syrus ahmadi

“…One of the important sources of national power in the world today and in the post-Cold War period is economic power, which is itself the bedrock of other superstructures, such as political, military, and so on. …”
Get full text

The Question of Baltic States in the Policy of the Great Westem Powers in 1944-1945 by Ramojus Kraujelis

“…The postwar international system that was leading to division of Europe, bipolar world, and Cold War was the adversity that influenced the plight of small states and nations. …”
Get full text

Amazonia in Brazilian military thought: Army and Navy conceptual frameworks and strategic actions in the 90s by Dilceu Roberto Pivatto Junior, Raul Cavedon Nunes

“…The article concludes that, throughout the investigated period, the thinking of the army and of the navy tended to converge into the need to increase overall military presence in the region. The end of the Cold War and the rise of new issues in the regional security agenda such as drug trafficking and the environment, led the Brazilian military to rethink its defense strategy, developing new hypotheses of regional conflict which included the potential participation of extra-continental powers.…”
Get full text

NATO’s partnership policy: From the military alliance to the security community, and back again by I. L. Prokhorenko

“…The author concludes that in the wake of the Cold War, NATO faced a profound identity crisis and set a course for a radical functional expansion, in particular within the framework of partnership policy, by including the issues of post-conflict reconstruction, human and gender security, public diplomacy, climate change, etc. into its agenda. …”
Get full text

Russia's position in the multipolar world and Serbia's strategic options by Proroković Dušan

“…The aspiration to redefine the post-Cold War international order and to shape a new one - multipolar and polycentric, is noticeable in Russia's strategies, as well as in the appearances of officials and concrete actions. …”
Get full text

On Some Tendencies in Defense Policy of Germany by N. K. Meden

“…Meanwhile, the revision of the main parameters of the defensive activity and the whole German politics is caused not by a fresh leadership, but by the most sharp after the end of the "cold war" geopolitical crisis in Europe. The author comes to conclusion, that a turning point in the Defensive Policy of Germany is taking shape, so that all the aspects of military organization are now affected: command stuff training, military equipment, strengthening of ties with allies. …”
Get full text

On the Issue of Foreign Policy Activities of Buddhists of the USSR in the Context of the Religious Policy of the Soviet State (1950s–1970s) by Alexey V. Gorbatov

“…The direct foreign policy activity of Soviet Buddhists, in the conditions of the Cold War, was subordinated to the guidelines of the party, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the relevant competent departments. …”
Get full text

The Czechoslovak Crisis of 1948 in the Perception of American Diplomats and Media by A. V. Zorin

“…It directly impacted the US containment policy towards the USSR and the escalation of the Cold War. Based on archival documents and newspapers articles, the research studies these events through their perception by American media and diplomats, whose opinions and interpretations had great and decisive importance for the US public opinion and its government official reaction. …”
Get full text

The migration-security nexus: desecuritization and the shift towards the sustainable approach by Paulina Polko

“…Objectives Migration emerged as a security issue in the context of the geopolitical dislocation shaped by the end of the Cold War and by social and political shifts associated with globalization processes. …”
Get full text

Modern Conflicts Features in Latin America. The Role of the OAS in the Settlement of the Falklands Conflict by Y. I. Strashko

“…Created on the verge of the Cold war the OAS was considered by the States as a barrier to the spread of communist threat in the Western Hemisphere and in such a capacity the organization went on up to detente policy implementation. …”
Get full text

CLASSIFICATION OF SOCIAL PROTEST IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN by D. V. Streltsov

“…After the end of the cold war the ideological type of social protest which had earlier played the role of the ideological basis for the consolidation of the left opposition political forces, loses its initial driving force. …”
Get full text

EEC and Yugoslav cooperation in the frames of modern international relations in Europe by E. G. Entina

“…In addition, at a later and structurally much more complicated stage of relations between the countries of the former Yugoslavia and the European Union the specificity and main components of relations of the Cold War period did not fundamentally change. As for the policy of so-called containment of the external actors one could see that besides Moscow, we can speak about similar attitude of the EU towards China. …”
Get full text