Why no new world order has been built since the end of the Cold War
Twenty-five years ago, on March 17th, 1991, the first...
Tags: Cold War, Crimea, Fyodor Lukyanov, Global Brief, Mikhail Gorbachev, Moscow, NATO, Perestroika, Russia, Russia world concept, Russia-Ukraine relations, Russian foreign policy, Russian society, Russian strategy, Soviet Union, Syria, Syria intervention, Vladimir Putin
The US will remain indispensable to global problem-solving, provided an updated mindset, new institutions, and flexible alliances...
Tags: American power, American strategy, Barack Obama, BRICS, CIA, G20, Global Brief, IMF, Iran-US relations, John E. McLaughlin, John Hopkins SAIS, NATO, Obama legacy, President George W. Bush, Soviet Union, Sunni-Shia conflict, Ukraine, UN, UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, US strategy, US-China relations, World Bank
Sochi and then Crimea may have played to the Russian soul, but they masked weaknesses and incoherence in today’s Russian...
Tags: Alexander III, Bolsheviks, Global Brief, Imperial Russia, Russia, Russian Federation, Russian nationalism, Russification, Soviet Union, Timur Atnashev, Ukraine
The Ukrainian revolution was caused by gross policy incompetence at a time when Kiev needed heroic leadership. Ukraine’s...
Tags: corruption, Crimea, European Union, Global Brief, good governance, governance incompetence, Irvin Studin, Kremlin, Maidan protests, Mikhail Grushevsky, Moscow, post-Soviet statehood, Putin, Russian Federation, Russian foreign policy, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Ukrainian revolution, Viktor Yanukovych, Yushchenko
Russians don’t eat their children. Nor do their former Soviet brethren. Now how do they all govern in this post-Soviet...
Tags: Belarus, Ex-Soviet Space, Georgia, Global Brief, Irvin Studin, Kazakhstan, lesser powers, major powers, Mikhail Gorbachev, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, NATO, post-Soviet century, Post-Soviet states, Russia, Russia's geopolitics, Russian elite, Russian strategy, Soviet Union, Ukraine, USSR, Vladimir Putin
No great post-Soviet achievements for Russian civilization – so far
How is the Russian man doing in 2013, nearly a century...
Tags: corruption in Russia, Dostoyevsky, Global Brief, Pushkin, Repin, Russia, Russian economy, Russian education levels, Russian Revolution, Soviet era, Soviet Union, Tchaikovsky, Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, unemployment in Russia, USSR, Vladimir Popov
And Russia is stressed too – which is why the world ought to take note
Little known fact: The transition to a market economy...
Tags: Belarus, China, Eastern European countries, Global Brief, Great Depression, life expectancy, mortality, mortality crisis, mortality rates, Moscow, Russia, Russian mortality, Russians, Soviet states, Soviet Union, Stalin, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Vladimir Popov
