Dr. Khatuna Burkadze - Ukraine will win through the support of the U.S. and other Western allies
- On February 14-15, NATO defense ministers met in Brussels to discuss deterring Russia, strengthening NATO defense and supporting Ukraine. There was also the ninth meeting in Ramstein format. How would you assess the outcomes of the NATO Defense Ministerial and the Ram...
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Armenia Tries to Diversify Its Foreign Policy Away From Russia
14 Feb 2023
On January 23, the European Union announced it would be sending a civilian mission to Armenia for a two-year term to document tensions on the border with Azerbaijan (Consilium.Europa.eu, January 23; see EDM, February 8). The EU’s recent decision follows earlier attempts...
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Giving Up Ultimatums: How Ukraine and Georgia Can Overcome a Systemic Crisis
Earlier, "European Pravda" published a number of texts about Ukrainian-Georgian relations, including the critical assessments of the current Georgian government.
The interview with Andrei Kasyanov, Charge d'Affaires of Ukraine in Georgia, had the greatest reso...
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Challenges to the Liberal Order
4 Feb 2023
The liberal international order is experiencing fundamental challenges. It has witnessed numerous crises since the end of the World War II. The Nazi and Communist movements were both mortal enemies; liberalism triumphed, leading it to its expansion across the globe afte...
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Iran Embassy Killing Shakes Region
31 Jan 2023
Early on the morning of January 27, a man armed with an automatic rifle entered Azerbaijan’s embassy in Tehran, killed the head of security, and wounded two other guards.
There the accounts began to diverge. Azerbaijan said the event was a terrorist attack, whil...
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Germany, the EU, and the South Caucasus
26 Jan 2023
Over the course of 2022, Germany turned from being an ardent opponent to EU expansion to becoming its enabler. Reasons vary, but the war in Ukraine and the resulting changes in connectivity, availability of energy resources and diminishing economic contacts with Russia,...
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International Survey & Analysis of Laws and Regulations Addressing Internet Addiction and/or Problematic Usage of the Internet
World Journal of Public Health has published the research article - International Survey & Analysis of Laws and Regulations Addressing Internet Addiction and/or Problematic Usage of the Internet - co-authored by Zviad Kirtava, MD, PhD, Director of Healthcare studies at...
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Iran and Russia Are Closer Than Ever Before
Emil Avdaliani's comments for Foreign Policy on how relations between Iran and Russia changed amid the war in Ukraine.
In the first two days of 2023, evidence of a newfound friendship between Russia and Iran was on full display across the war-battered cities...
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What Has Competition to Do with Inequality?
1. Introduction
Inequality has been one of the most debated issues. By far the leading explanations of inequality revolve around technological progress and globalization of trade (Alvaredo, et al., 2013), but these are not the only contributing factors. Recent empiri...
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