Elements of a road map for European security
Moscow and Berlin continue to sharply disagree on many critical international matters. After the Ukraine crisis, ‘business as usual’ has been impossible and will...
Good and bad GDP: Output fall in transition economies and the dead rat effect
Good jokes should be funny, but more importantly, should carry a message. The following is one of the most famous jokes in economics, and...
The Treacherous Path
In 1991, Vladimir Yakunin, a Soviet diplomat and KGB officer, returned from his posting in New York to a country that no longer existed.
The...
Will Artificial Intelligence decide over life or death in the near future?
Self-driving vehicles operated by intelligent algorithms, carrying people to their destinations safely and with ease, have long been a desirable innovation. Today, from a...
The heyday of power politics in Syria
Within a few years the Syrian Arab Republic has become a textbook example of power politics, but in a more modern and sophisticated form....
Turkey in the Middle East: Outlines of Political Expansion
On the 28th of March 2018, the Moscow office of the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute, along with the Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund, organised...
Constructing identity in the context of globalisation and the erosion of traditional norms
Research approaches to identity construction
Liberal, postmodern thought – identified with the work of Jacques Derrida, among others – denies the individual his or her...
The rise and fall of market socialism in Yugoslavia
This paper is dedicated to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia, hereafter Yugoslavia), a country that was known for its unique system...
The Silk Order: A philosophical perspective
The most significant phenomenon in the world around the turn of the new millennium is arguably the rise of China. Along with its fast...
‘Beyond capitalism’? No, back to the future
“I wish we would stop using the word Capitalism,” writes John Kay of Oxford University, in a recent post entitled Moving Beyond Capitalism.
Kay reminds us...