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Originally published under the title "Erdogan Cosies Up to Putin as Turkey Makes Trouble." The assassination on Dec. 19 in Ankara of the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, raises some major geopolitical issues: Will this act of violence break
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine showed the world that a resurgent Russia means, out of necessity, an imperialist Russia. It also revived discussions about whether Russia needs to be “decolonized,” or perhaps “defederalized,” to bury its imperialist ambitions and subdue its military threat. A breakup of today’s Russia, similar to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, is seen as a possible, for some even the most desirable, outcome of a failed Ukraine invasion. Regrets have been voiced that the US did not make it a goal in the 1990s, when post-Soviet Russia lay i...
102 years ago today, Hungary signed the Treaty of Trianon. But what if the Hungarian delegation to Paris had rejected the demands put in front of them?
May 31, 2022 // Our current regimes for scientific sanctions are sadly outdated, having been designed for the Cold War era rather than contemporary global crises. With science and technology being global in the 21st century, we need a more sophisticated science diplomacy, writes science historian Maria Rentetzi.
We're shedding light on some common misconceptions about World War I, including who was actually involved and when the fighting officially ended.