Articles by: Dr VladislavB Sotirovic

Pre- and Post-Soviet Language Policy in the East-Baltic States

Pre- and Post-Soviet Language Policy in the East-Baltic States

Preface A common historical feature of the “Three Baltic sister-states” (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) is that for most of the modern time instead of state independence there were decades of foreign administrations imposed by several European powers. Such historical experience exposed the people living in this part of the Baltic region to several foreign political regimes, and different cultural and[Read More…]

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Russia Pyotr Veliky missile cruiser makes port call in Tartus Syria

Some Remarks on Russia in Global Politics Today

It is a historical law that each state in the world changes with time. However, only a few states experienced dramatic change during the short period of time as Russia did over the last 33 years. Russia has changed as a state, nation, and military power followed by her fluctuating position in global politics and international relations. Since 1991 up today Russia[Read More…]

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From the History of the Ancient World: The First Three-Continent State−An Ancient Achaemenid Empire of Persia/Iran

From the History of the Ancient World: The First Three-Continent State−An Ancient Achaemenid Empire of Persia/Iran

Preface The Empire of Persia was the first global empire to cover the parts of the three continents (known at that time): Asia, Africa, and Europe. The story of the Persian Empire starts after the end of the Assyrian state followed by the plunder of its political center – Nineveh, in 612 BC by Babylon which retained the lowlands of[Read More…]

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The Collective West vs. Russia: Towards the End of a Pax Americana?

The Collective West vs. Russia: Towards the End of a Pax Americana?

Preface A peaceful dissolution of the USSR according to the agreement between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in 1988 in Reykjavik brought a new dimension of global geopolitics in which up to 2008 Russia, as a legal successor state of the USSR, was playing an inferior role in global politics when an American Neocon concept of Pax Americana became the[Read More…]

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The 1898 Spanish-American War

Making the USA as Global Greatest Power: From Alaska (1867) to Europe (1917)

Introduction It can be indicated from a historical viewpoint that the USA emerged on the stage of global (world) politics in 1867 (four years before Germany did the same in 1871 after the Franco−Prussian War of 1870−1871). Both these imperial states at the same time exerted extremely influential politics in the process of radical transformation of the modern world both[Read More…]

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The Final Colonial Partition of Africa at the Turn of the 20th Century

The Final Colonial Partition of Africa at the Turn of the 20th Century

The “Black Continent” of Africa until the end of the eighth decade of the 19th century was not properly known territory, especially its central parts which have been unknown to the Europeans. The West European powers until the 1880s were acquainted mainly with the African littorals and their immediate hinterland. However, what was inside the continent was not exactly known[Read More…]

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21st Zionist Congress 1939 Geneva

Zionism and Israel

Zionism The term Zionism is derived from the word Zion that in the Hebrew language and cultural-historical tradition of the Jews refers to the citadel (acropolis) of the city of Jerusalem as well as to the Kingdom of Heaven. From the matter of politics, Zionism refers to the political-national movement of the European Jews in the very late 19th century[Read More…]

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Feminism and Historical Struggle for Gender Equality

Feminism and Historical Struggle for Gender Equality

Preface It is important to have a short look at the history of this battle for more women’s rights. That is why I will shortly explain the ideology and social movement of Feminism, the factor which has driven women in their battle for equal chances and respect. Finally, I will come to my main topic which is the specific problems[Read More…]

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History: Making Modern Russia from 1462 (Ivan the Great) to 1815 (Alexander I)

History: Making Modern Russia from 1462 (Ivan the Great) to 1815 (Alexander I)

The period from 1462 to 1815 is of special importance for the history of Russia and the Russian people as well as for the history of Eurasia for at least five good reasons: 1) Russia became modernized according to the European pattern; 2) Russia became liberated from the foreign occupants; 3) The Russian people became territorially united into a single[Read More…]

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Gender and Politics

Gender and Politics

Preface The text has aim to investigate the situation of female representation in politics in the industrialized contemporary Western democracies. Though women are more and more visible in politics, we can not yet say they have taken an equal position compared to men. Of course, they have had to take a long road and there is certainly a positive evolution,[Read More…]

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On Global Security Models and Their Functionality

On Global Security Models and Their Functionality

The fundamental aim of the text below is to deal with the concept and models of global security as one of the crucial topics of global politics studies. The question of Security Studies as an academic discipline within the scope of Global Politics has been the subject of much debate and one of the most prosperous ways to deal with[Read More…]

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A Basic Academic Approach on International Systems of States and Security

A Basic Academic Approach on International Systems of States and Security

We have to keep in mind that a term and notion of security usually implies a kind of sense of protection and safety from different possible harms coming from „outside“. Therefore, it can be generally acceptable and understandable that the states want to protect their own territories by expanding great resources in making their territorial safe. Security topics are of[Read More…]

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War And War Crimes: A Very Short Academic Approach

War And War Crimes: A Very Short Academic Approach

After WWII, there was a growing number of significant non-state actors in international relations (IR) like the OUN or various specialist agencies connected to it. Nevertheless, two key developments stimulated the growth of such organizations after WWII: The realization that building cooperation and collective security was a much wider task than merely deterring aggressors in traditional attacks on fixed international[Read More…]

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 The 1823 Monroe Doctrine and its First Consequences for Global Politics: The Making the U.S. to be a Global Empire

 The 1823 Monroe Doctrine and its First Consequences for Global Politics: The Making the U.S. to be a Global Empire

The Doctrine (1823) The doctrine was presented by the 5-th U.S. President James Monroe (1817−1825) in 1823 as an official warning to (West) European powers that any European policy of imperialistic expansionism on the ground of the Americas (North, Central, and South or Anglo-Francophone and Latin, i.e., Spanish & Portuguese) was going to be taken into account by Washington as[Read More…]

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Belgium’s Pandora Box with Historical Background

Belgium’s Pandora Box with Historical Background

Introduction This article aims to present the main inner-political problems in multilingual and multicultural Belgium – a country in which the capital of the European Union (the EU) and NATO is located and a country as one of the original six establishers of the present-day EU and the European Single Market.[1] The question of the destiny of Belgian multicultural federalism[Read More…]

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Just War and Just War Theory

Just War and Just War Theory

One of the most disputed topics with regard to the concept of war is the idea of a Just War – a war held to be founded on the principles of justice in principle caused and conducted in the name of humanity like, for instance, self-defense or protection of minority groups, etc. That the was as a phenomenon is an[Read More…]

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Collective Security and the System of UN in International Relations (IR)

Collective Security and the System of UN in International Relations (IR)

An idea of effective collective security is the foundation of the United Nations (UN). Fundamentally, collective security has to be a system to protect global peace and security through the common agreement and activity of all nations. Therefore, the focal idea of the concept of collective security is to institutionalize a permanent arrangement of the balance of power in which[Read More…]

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The Theoretical Concept of Geopolitics in International Relations and Global Politics

The Theoretical Concept of Geopolitics in International Relations and Global Politics

“Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; Who rules the Heartland commands the World Island; Who controls the World Island commands the World” (Sir Halford John Mackinder, 1919)   The term geopolitics was first used by the Swedish political scientist Rudolf Kjellén (1864−1922) in 1899, but the term did not become popular in academic circles until it became used in[Read More…]

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On Soft Power: How to Measure Soft Power, Actors of Soft Power, Foreign Policy and Soft Power

On Soft Power: How to Measure Soft Power, Actors of Soft Power, Foreign Policy and Soft Power

  How to measure soft power? As social power is to a very extent a kind of social capital, the measurement of soft power is, in principle, difficult from the methodological viewpoint concerning social sciences. Methodologically, some indicators are usually used to measure the size of hard power, like geographical resources, economic power, or military potential. Compared with the relatively[Read More…]

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From the History of International Relations (IR): War, National Interest, and the League of Nations

From the History of International Relations (IR): War, National Interest, and the League of Nations

In broad terms, the national interest refers to the goals of foreign politics, objectives, or policy preferences that benefit a nation or society as a whole. That is the foreign policy equivalent of the public interest. However, the concept of national interest is practically vague and contested. The concept is most widely used by realist theorists, for whom it is[Read More…]

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The Concept And The Causes Of War

The Concept And The Causes Of War

There are many definitions and/or understandings of war. However, from the very academic point of view, war can be understood as an armed conflict between at least two sides usually but not necessarily states fought usually for some (geo)political goals. The focal conceptual idea of war is the use of force between large-scale political subjects like states, empires, or coalitions.[Read More…]

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The Factors of Soft Power’s Influence on Politics

The Factors of Soft Power’s Influence on Politics

It is already at least two last decades worldwide recognized that soft power became an extremely significant instrument in both politics and diplomacy in the hands of many states but especially those whom we can call as great powers as they are the most influential on global politics and international relations. However, the crucial question arises: What are the focal[Read More…]

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What is a Soft Power?

What is a Soft Power?

Understanding soft power in politics and diplomacy   French Emperor Napoleon I, was convinced that only two powers existed in the world: the sword and the mind. Sword can prevail over the mind in a short time but in the long run, he believed that the mind would beat the sword. As the mind is mightier than the sword is[Read More…]

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Fifty Years of the 1973 Yom Kippur War

Fifty Years of the 1973 Yom Kippur War

Who is guilty of the war? In October 2023 it will be fifty years since the Yom Kippur war occurred. This war is known as the Fourth Arab-Israeli War or by Arabs as the October War. It was the last great direct clash between Arab nations and Israel.[1] The results of the war, as well, influenced the process of radicalization[Read More…]

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1990 Yugoslav Election And The Destruction Of The Country

1990 Yugoslav Election And The Destruction Of The Country

Thirty-Three Years Since the First Post-WWII “Democratic and Multiparty” Elections in All Six Yugoslav Republics in 1990 and the Background of the Destruction of the Country   Preface It will pass 33 years since the first post-WWII “democratic and multiparty” elections in all six Yugoslav republics in 1990. Next year, however, not only that this country did not exist anymore[Read More…]

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The Origins and Essence of West European Imperialistic Colonization

The Origins and Essence of West European Imperialistic Colonization

Imperialism and colonialism One of the focal historical features of the western (West European) civilization was and is imperialistic colonization followed by the brutal social, economic, political, financial, etc. exploitation of the local peoples and their cultures. By some academic understanding and formal definition, imperialism is a process of extending a nation-state’s power by territorial occupation or by forming political,[Read More…]

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From the History of the GB-EU Relations

From the History of the GB-EU Relations

How Great Britain fell for a confidence trick In the 1960s, when Great Britain twice sought entry into then the EEC/EC, the historian Sir Arthur Bryant issued an unheeded warning: “Once in the common market, we shall be a minority in an organization in which the decisions of the majority will have the power to bind the minority, not only[Read More…]

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What is Asymmetric Warfare?

What is Asymmetric Warfare?

At least from the very academic viewpoint, war is a condition of armed conflict between at least two sides (but, in fact, states). There are, historically, several types of warfare as conventional warfare, civil war, lightning war (blitzkrieg in German), total war, hegemonic war, liberation war, war on terrorism, etc. However, according to the used warfare technique, there is, for[Read More…]

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Russia: From Boris Yeltsin to Vladimir Putin

Russia: From Boris Yeltsin to Vladimir Putin

After the Cold War 1.0 (1949−1989) emerged many new problems in the international arena of global politics as the circumstances concerning international relations drastically have been changed. One of the many problematic issues that have been facing both the USA and Europe (in fact, NATO and the EU) after 1989 was to find a new way of their relations with[Read More…]

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Reborn Russia and Kosovo

Reborn Russia and Kosovo

A peaceful dissolution of the USSR according to the agreement between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in 1988 in Reykjavik brought a new dimension of global geopolitics in which up to 2008 Russia, as a legal successor state of the USSR, was playing an inferior role in global politics when an American Neocon concept of Pax Americana became the fundamental[Read More…]

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The 2002 Bush Doctrine and the Pandora Box of the Preemptive War

The 2002 Bush Doctrine and the Pandora Box of the Preemptive War

Originally, the Bush Doctrine was a political phrase with the aim to describe the US foreign policy goals during the 43rd US President George W. Bush (Bush Junior), 2001−2009. The doctrine had four basic standpoints. All of them were centered around American military superiority after the Cold War 1.0 as the US being the only global hyperpower in international relations.[Read More…]

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Kurdistan and Kosovo

Kurdistan and Kosovo

A recent blast hit the center of Istanbul resulting in several casualties. The Turkish authorities were very quick to announce the identity of the suicide person: A Kurdish woman in close relation with the Kurdistan Workers Party. Nevertheless, this terror act in Istanbul, followed by a new Turkish military intervention (aggression) in North Syria, once again opened the “Kurdish Question”[Read More…]

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From the History of Global Politics and International Relations: The Clausewitzian Viewpoint of War

From the History of Global Politics and International Relations: The Clausewitzian Viewpoint of War

The focal questions about war In dealing from both theoretical and practical points of view about war, at least six fundamental questions arise: 1) What is war?; 2) What types of war exist?; 3) Why do wars occur?; 4) What is the connection between war and justice?; 5) The question of war crimes?; and 6) Is it possible to replace[Read More…]

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The First Defeat of the Central Powers in the Great War: The 1914 Battle of Cer

The First Defeat of the Central Powers in the Great War: The 1914 Battle of Cer

It passed more than the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War in 1914−1918. Proportionally, in the war, Serbia suffered mostly among all countries involved in the conflict as it lost ¼ of its population followed by 50% of industrial destruction. The first war crimes or even the genocide occurred on the territory of Serbia but on other[Read More…]

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Washington and the Destruction of ex-Yugoslavia

Washington and the Destruction of ex-Yugoslavia

South-East Europe, and especially the Balkan Peninsula as the main part of it, have traditionally been the object of numerous geopolitical, geostrategic, and publicist analyses, as well as the subject of debates among the Balkan, European, and global experts in international relations. The new Iron Curtain or the Cold War 2.0 between western and eastern Europe was not the end[Read More…]

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The Kosovo Boomerang in International Relations

The Kosovo Boomerang in International Relations

After February 2008 when Kosovo Albanian-dominated parliament proclaimed Kosovo’s independence (without organizing a referendum) with obvious US diplomatic support (unilateral recognition) with the explanation that the Kosovo case is unique in the world (i.e., it will be not repeated) one can ask the question: Is the problem of the southern Serbian province of Kosovo really unique and surely unrepeatable in[Read More…]

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A Short Overview of the 2014 Crimean Crisis

A Short Overview of the 2014 Crimean Crisis

The international crisis over the status of the Crimean Peninsula was in February-March 2014 when the peninsula became returned to the state’s territory of Russia from Ukraine. The Western Russophobic narrative immediately accused Russia of illegitimate annexation of the peninsula as well as of the occupation of the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine. However, the same narrative is not telling[Read More…]

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Must Serbia harmonize its foreign policy with the EU and the rest of the West?

Must Serbia harmonize its foreign policy with the EU and the rest of the West?

A lot of dilemmas, lies, and misconceptions are present in Western geopolitical narratives taken without any critical approach by domestic Serbian pro-Western supporters (usually financed by Western agencies and Governments) about the war in NATO/EU-sponsored Ukraine, and Serbian position in newly geopolitical circumstances. This article aims to present the focal Western lie about Serbia trying to give some reasonable arguments[Read More…]

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The Kosovo knot and how to solve it?

The Kosovo knot and how to solve it?

  Kosovo (in fact, Kosovo-Metochia), a disputed territory claimed by Serbia and Kosovo Albanian separatists, which Serbs regard as central to their cultural identity (differently to the Albanians), is going to pose much more unexpected problems for the international community concerning its political status as it became obvious that Belgrade and Prishtina cannot find common language during 22 years of[Read More…]

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Ukraine Proper

Ukraine Proper

The statehood of Ukraine like Ukrainian ethnolinguistic identity is one of the most problematic research topics. Ukraine herself has, in addition, extremely artificial state borders from very historical and political points of view. Even the name of the country and nation is very unusual and even unnatural as the Slavonic term “Ukraine” means in English “borderland” while “Ukrainians” are simply[Read More…]

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What was about the (Western) international community during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide?

What was about the (Western) international community during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide?

By 1995 it had become clear that the (Western) international community’s experiment with multilateralism was under serious threat and, in fact, it failed in many cases like Rwanda, ex-Yugoslavia, Cyprus, etc. Nevertheless, continuing problems in different parts of the globe have meant that the OUN has had to remain committed to alleviating some of the worst atrocities. Nonetheless, before the[Read More…]

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Kosovo For “Europe”: Serbia Between “Holy Land” And Stepmother

Kosovo For “Europe”: Serbia Between “Holy Land” And Stepmother

The assassination of Kosovo’s Serb leader Oliver Ivanović on January 16th, 2018 in the northern (the Serb) part of the divided city of Kosovska Mitrovica once again put on the agenda both the issue of contested land of Kosovo and Serbia’s policy toward the West, in particular, the EU. The Western (the USA/EU) client Serbia’s government is quite long time[Read More…]

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The 2016 Aleppo Massacre: Are Putin And Assad The Only War Criminals?

The 2016 Aleppo Massacre: Are Putin And Assad The Only War Criminals?

On Friday, October 5th, the U.S. Secretary of State – John Kerry calls for war crimes investigation of Russia’s and Assad governments for the destruction of Syrian city of Aleppo. The western corporative mass media was a very quick, like, for instance, The New York Times, immediately and clearly to accuse the Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Syrian President[Read More…]

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