Weaving the web: An identity shattered by civil war
MEMORY: A quest for identity reveals turbulent memories and exploring nationalism, war, and hope.
Soviet Union
Russia’s Africa Policy
AFRICA: Russia has been very committed to the principle of non-interference and allowed authoritarian regimes to conduct their own politics without setting any political demands for their trade or aid. But they forgave debts to several African countries while signing several military-technical agreements.
The reality of capitalism and beyond
NEOLIBERALISM: Capitalist realism is a term for the late capitalist world where it is not possible to imagine a different and better one – it is what it is. Did neoliberal capital take the form of a wall-to-wall ideology, constituting an affective regime? And was the ‘end of history’ nothing more than a class project?
When the world is really on fire
EU: Europe never became an adult or responsible player in a multipolar world. A common foreign and security policy has never gone beyond the sketch. Will it happen now?
A new European security architecture
UKRAINE/RUSSIA: The authors believe that European countries should loosen their ties with the US in to achieve constructive results in what can be viewed as a European security problem. Two parties can only achieve security together with the other – not at the expense of it.
For those who want to understand this crisis
Breaking the neutrality la la land
ARMENIA: Through an activist lens, Motherland focuses the world’s attention on the 2020 atrocities committed in Armenia’s Artsakh Republic, formerly known as Nagorno – Karabakh.
NATO – an alliance for the 21st century?
MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: NATO’s new strategy document is a continuation of the neoconservative line after Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s politicization of the group, revealing an ideological chasm between the old and the new NATO.
Leaders of the unfree world
BIOGRAPHY: One of the longest-serving German chancellors ever, Angela Merkel’s eventful tenure as a woman in a bastion of masculinity made her an anchor for Europe.
Knocking on heaven’s door
RUSSIA: Gorbachev’s twilight years captured by now exiled Russian director
A lesson in past and present war crimes
UKRAINE: Sergei Loznitsa’s new archive-based doc is an impressive reconstruction of the trial of 15 Nazi officers in Kiev after World War II, inevitably making the viewer reflect on more recent war crimes.