Strategy&Future

Zapisy konwencji z Montreux znacznie ograniczyły sowieckie ambicje w drugiej połowie XX wieku, kiedy w latach 60. Sowieci mierzyli się z 6 Flotą.

The Montreux Convention deeply undermined the Soviets’ ambitions in the second half of the XX century, when the priorities had changed and the Soviet assets had to cope with the US Sixth Fleet.

Gdy spojrzymy na mapę Eurazji, to opisywany przez Halforda Mackindera Heartland rozciąga się pomiędzy krańcem norweskiej Arktyki a rosyjskim Dalekim Wschodem, na południu zakończony jest pasmami górskimi, począwszy od Karpat w Rumunii aż po wyżyny Anatolii, Iranu i Afganistanu, dalej w bok sięga do Pamiru i Ałtaju, i ostatecznie do Mongolii oraz Korei. Zaraz za granicą Heartlandu znajdują się demograficzne olbrzymy Europy, Azji Południowej, Azji Południowo-Wschodniej, brzegowe prowincje Chin, Japonia oraz bohater dzisiejszego artykułu – Bliski Wschód.

Weekly Brief 12.10 – 18.10.2019

OXFORD DEBATE: Is China a Threat to the Liberal International Order? Moderator: Bobo Lo Russia Research Fellow, French Institute for International Affairs, France Olin L. Wethington Board of Directors, IRI; Senior Fellow, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council; and Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Special Envoy on China, US Department of the Treasury (2006), USA Theresa Fallon Director, Centre for Russia Europe Asia Studies, Brussels Jacek Bartosiak Director of Wargaming and Simulations Programme, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, CEO and Founder of Stategy&Future, Poland Hugh White Emeritus Professor of Strategic Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

OXFORD DEBATE: Is China a Threat to the Liberal International Order?

Lithuania. A unique place in Polish cultural awareness.

If we assume that Russia had any geopolitical obsession, consequently we would not be able to find many of them that have survived throughout the centuries of Russia’s imperial rise.

Contrary to what voters or the average Smiths often think, political leaders are not free actors in their actions.

Africa is experiencing the demographic boom. The human talent is the greatest resource available to humankind. In 21. century the African continent will become the vast and growing pool with human talent increasingly available to the rest of the world.

Years ago, as a young boy playing with bottle caps in the yard, I really liked this uniquely original bottle among others, with a green flag and a hand holding a torch. Zaire. Of course, completely unconsciously, without any geographical associations, not to mention political ones.

The Western (Vistula) Arm of Encirclement