The road to war: economic sanctions Parallels: Italy 1935 – Russia/China 2023

Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia before World War II was the first serious opportunity to test the effectiveness of economic sanctions, the economic weapon of the then “international community” — the League of Nations. Specifically, how these sanctions worked in practice against a large state with an industrial base and a real army.
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Sergei Korolev’s “Rocket Flight in the Stratosphere” (1934) and other writings

Sergei Korolev (1906-1966) is a legendary figure of the 21st century and is considered one of the "fathers" of space exploration. He was a Soviet scientist and designer of rocket and space systems...
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Is China a Global Broker or an Anti-System Power? Part 3 of 3

The decision of Beijing to publicly propose a peace resolution plan for the war in Ukraine was determined by many factors, however, the key component was that China decided to act as a global-scale arbiter...
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Jake Sullivan at Brookings. The glass is still half empty

On Thursday 27th April, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan delivered a speech at the Washington-based Brookings Institution think tank...
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Is China a Global Broker or an Anti-System Power? Part 2 of 3

Together with its One Belt One Road initiative, in 2012, China presented the Community of Common Destiny for Humankind. Initially, the very phrase was used to express China-Taiwan relations...
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Is China a Global Broker or an Anti-System Power? Part 1 of 3

This three-part series examines the Chinese global factor in international conflict resolution and will try to answer the question - Is China a Global Broker or an Anti-System Power?
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Tiers for Rears: A General Classification of Military Logistics in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Part 2

On March 5, 2022, the Government of the Russian Federation approved the decree “List of foreign states and territories that are committing unfriendly actions towards the Russian Federation”. There were proposed three categories of the states: ‘friendly’, ‘unfriendly’ and ‘neutral states’...
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The latest arrangement of the AUKUS Alliance – a risky situation for Australia, unless…

Australia has entered into an alliance with the US and UK called AUKUS, which we at S&F refer to as the alliance of the nations of the World Ocean, aimed at preventing the consolidation of the Eurasian landmass under the sceptre of China...
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Tiers for Rears: A General Classification of Military Logistics in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Part 1

The war in Ukraine is a unique geopolitical event that resembles and combines many previous international and revolutionary wars that changed the course of history...
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Modelling the War in Ukraine for 2023

The year-long war in Ukraine doesn’t demonstrate any sign of ending soon. On the contrary, everything indicates that the war hasn’t yet reached its apogee...
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The Scandinavian connection

The war in Ukraine continues. Its course emphasises the very significant influence of the USA on the political system of Europe...
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Turkey and the Organisation of Turkic States: The Grand Design of Pan-Turkism

For a long time, the Turkic World formed a continuous historical and cultural space from China to Europe without the capacity to be a real geopolitical player in Eurasia, but under the leadership of Turkey, the Turkic World is today shaping a new geopolitical reality in Eurasia...
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Polish nuclear energy. Part 2: The Third Republic

The decision taken by the government of Tadeusz Mazowiecki in December 1990 to put the "Żarnowiec" Nuclear Power Plant then under construction into liquidation was preceded by a series of earlier political decisions...
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Polish nuclear energy. PRL times. Part 1

Poland is the only country of the former Eastern bloc where no nuclear power plant was built...
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Lessons from the war in Ukraine. Part 4

This part of the series is a record of conclusions and observations resulting directly from conversations with the participants of this war — soldiers and officers...
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