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The Persistence of Great-Power Politics

What the War in Ukraine Has Revealed About Geopolitical Rivalry At the Munich Security Conference in February 2022, mere days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s newly minted foreign minister, argued that Europe faced a stark choice between “Helsinki or Yalta.” To one side was the 1975 …

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Partenariat sino-iranien : Un nouvel ordre mondial se forme

Le principal acquis de la visite du président iranien, Ebrahim Raïssi à Pékin va bien au-delà de la signature de 20 accords de coopération bilatéraux. Il s’agit d’un point d’inflexion crucial dans un processus historique intéressant, complexe, qui dure depuis des décennies : l’intégration de l’Eurasie. Rien d’étonnant à ce …

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Why South Africa is drifting into the Sino-Russian orbit

South africa’s navy, like much of the country, is dilapidated. Its fleet spends less than half the time on the seas than it did a decade ago. It has few working ships, a result of budget cuts by the ruling African National Congress (anc). So it makes sense that the …

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