As the international system sees a deep fissure between two distinct camps—the West and “the Rest”—there is little room for a third bloc that would have an opportunity to distance itself from the rivalry. Timofei Bordachev, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club, ponders the absence of a neutral option in a world where the […]
In late May 1938, Mao Zedong began a series of lectures in Yan’an that would become On Protracted War. Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Nanjing had fallen to Japanese imperialist ambitions, while China, as a semi-feudal and semi-colonial country, remained vastly inferior in weapons, industry and military organisation. As the resistance became a major front of […]
The strikes launched by Israel and the United States against Iran, coupled with the Iranian retaliation against the Gulf states, have had a profound impact on BRICS. Certain analysts have rightly identified the emergence of a BRICS crisis. Specifically, this is driven by the exchange of hostilities between Iran and the United Arab Emirates (UAE); […]
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