Modern Diplomacy in a Complex World
It is generally agreed that modern diplomacy began with the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648 which ended the Thirty Years War one of the most destructive conflicts of then-European powers. The peace conference to...
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Iran to provide surface-to-surface missiles, drones to Russia
Iran has promised to provide Russia with surface-to-surface missiles, in addition to more drones, two senior Iranian officials and two Iranian diplomats quoted in a report by Reuters, a move that is likely to...
The ascendancy of India at the global stage
Over the last 25 years, India’s explosive economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world’s emerging major powers. Long plagued by endemic poverty, until the 1990s the Indian economy was also...
Archetype of pre-modern Asia back in trend?
Yoon Seok-Yeol is the new president of South Korea. A number of diplomats attended his inauguration. But President Xi Jinping’s official representative asked President Yoon for a meeting to visit China and discuss important...
Will Russia use nuclear weapons?
At the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin obliquely raised the possibility of a nuclear strike against anyone who intervened in the conflict. Below are some of the key issues...
Zelensky calls on world to stop Russia, more atrocities feared
Ukraine’s president showed a harrowing video of dead civilians to the UN Security Council Tuesday and called for “accountability” for apparent Russian atrocities, as fears grow that Moscow is preparing new offensives. With global...
U.N. General Assembly likely to vote again this week on Ukraine
The United Nations General Assembly is expected to vote this week, diplomats said, to call out Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for creating a “dire” humanitarian situation, urge aid access and again demand Moscow stop...
Russia wants to retain her supremacy in her sphere-of-influence
After decades-long hesitation and year-long step-by-step military build-up on Ukraine’s north, east and southern borders while from time to time announcing that Russia had no intention to wage war against Ukraine, finally Russian Federation...
U.N. General Assembly set to censure Russia over Ukraine invasion
The United Nations General Assembly is set to reprimand Russia on Wednesday over its invasion of Ukraine and demand that Moscow stop fighting and withdraw its military forces, a move that aims to diplomatically...
As Russia bombards Ukrainian cities, Biden warns Putin ‘has no idea what’s coming’
U.S. President Joe Biden warned Vladimir Putin that the Russian leader “has no idea what’s coming”, as Western nations tightened an economic noose around Russia, whose invading forces bombarded Ukrainian cities and appeared poised...
