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Why Russia and China may Make Serious Moves in their Near Abroads in 2019-2020 – and why they may no
Courtesy of Bing Russia and/or China Make a Move – or Don’t In the first part of this piece, I argued that there was a better than even...
Feb 1, 2019
Why Russia and China may Make Serious Moves in their Near Abroads in 2019-2020 – and why they may no
Courtesy of Bing #Russia-China Entente, #near abroad, #regional conflict, #Belarus, #Ukraine, #Taiwan, #North Korea, #Venezuela, #East...
Feb 1, 2019
Towards Yalta Two
1024px-Yalta_Conference_(Churchill,_Roosevelt,_Stalin)_(B&W) This blog was posted on the CDA-Institute at https://cdainstitute.ca/law-tow...
Aug 1, 2018
Brexit or Bremain: a long and winding road ahead?
The partisans in favour of the UK leaving the European Union (EU) prevailed with almost 52 percent of the votes cast in the referendum on...
Sep 29, 2016
Ukraine and the Sino-Russian Relationship
This piece served as the basis for a presentation transmitted via Skype from Kiev, Ukraine to Kingston, Canada for a conference organized...
Jun 30, 2016
Ukraine and the Sino-Russian Relationship
How will the relationship between Russia and China affect the future trajectory of Ukraine? This article will appear in a book on the...
Jun 13, 2016
Russia, Syria, Ukraine – and the Rest of the World
Putin’s objectives in Syria have as much or more to do with Russian concerns about developments in the former Soviet Union as with the...
Oct 21, 2015
Knocking on the Door of World War IV
Introduction[1] The world is on a precipice. The international community faces a growing array of situations that could precipitate major...
Aug 25, 2015
A Typical Evening on Russian TV
The other night as I was watching Russia’s main TV channel, it occurred to me that westerners who are not in a position to access and...
Jul 31, 2015
Russia’s Victory Celebrations – Militarism and its Uncomfortable Truths
On 9 May 2015, Russia celebrated its victory over Nazi Germany in World War II with a colossal victory parade. While this was an...
May 14, 2015
The End of the Sanctions Regime against Russia?
Does a statement by the head of French Military Intelligence before the Assemblée nationale presage a change in Paris’s support for the...
Apr 23, 2015
Munich in Minsk?
Image by Dana Dramowicz This blog was originally posted on the website of the Security Governance Group on 3 March 2015. Thoughts on the...
Mar 4, 2015
America’s Chamberlain? Obama and the Challenge of American Power
Neville Chamberlain showing the Anglo-German Declaration to a crowd at Heston Aerodrome on 30 September 1938 If we are honest about our...
Nov 13, 2014
The 2014 NATO Summit: President Putin’s Take
This blog was originally posted on the website of the Centre for Security Governance on 12 September 2014. I have just reread the North...
Sep 12, 2014
First we take Crimea, then we take Brighton Beach (and then Alaska?)
This blog first appeared on the website of the Centre for Security Governance on 1 May 2014. Vladimir Putin’s ideology has three basic...
May 1, 2014
Should Crimea Join the Russian Federation? – this is not such a great idea, and here are some of the
(Map by NBC news) This blog first was first published on the website of the Centre for Security Governance on 13 March 2014. Despite the...
Mar 10, 2014
Putin’s Putsch
Speculation abounds as to whether Putin will plunge on from his Crimean putsch to raise Russian flags in Ukraine’s east. The stage is set...
Mar 6, 2014
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