Many states are desperate in the face of the coronavirus pandemic: governments are panicking and the economy has already collapsed. This crisis is expected to deepen, all of which assures that humanity will likely be seeking a new path. Everyone seems to be asking: “What has the pandemic changed/ will change socially and politically?” a particularly pertinent question for those ...
Recently, the President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro, traveled to the United States to meet with political and economic figures who will in some way demarcate the future of the country. The objective is to sign a military agreement between Brazil and the United States that seeks to strengthen ties between the two countries and join forces, among other things, against ...
Global leadership and hegemony changes hands just about every 100-150 years. When that change takes place, the backbone of the global system shifts as well. Important milestones such as the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648 and the French Revolution are examples of such changes in the 17th and 18th centuries. In the 19th century, Great Britain emerged as the dominant ...
At the moment, according to the WHO, the United States has over 160,698 infected, and over 3,000 have already died. New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have become the center of the epidemic outbreak in the United States. More than 52 000 cases and at least 728 deaths were reported in New York; more than 11 000 cases and 140 ...
The Russian military delegation has arrived in Ankara on March 5th, as the agreement reached in Moscow proposed. During the dialog between the two delegations in Ankara, the details of the joint patrol on the M4 highway and the security of the 12 km wide strip, was discussed. After the attack on the Turkish forces in Idlib, Operation Spring Shield ...
In his latest act of sadistic geopolitical bloviation, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used the deadly coronavirus outbreak in Iran as an opportunity to criticize the country’s healthcare system and make crude accusations against its leadership. These comments were made in willing ignorance of the central role the US itself played in devastating Iran’s healthcare infrastructure with targeted sanctions. ...
On March 3, the majority of Americans will be glued to TV screens across the US – on this date, President Donald Trump’s Democratic opponent for the 2020 presidential election will likely be announced. What is Super Tuesday? Tuesday is the traditional day for primaries and caucuses in the United States during presidential election years. The concept of “Super Tuesday” ...
Munich conference`s results and negotiations on world security The Munich Security Conference took place this week in Germany. The Munich Security Conference began in 1963, and has become an international platform that brings together political leaders from all over the world every year. https://uwidata.com/8067-top-5-takeaways-from-munich-security-conference-spengler-china-europe-the-us-and-realpolitik/ More than 800 participants met and discussed the most important events in world politics. Many conference ...
US President Donald Trump recently announced his visit to India. The Indian authorities intend to welcome their guest at the highest levels in demonstration of the strong friendship between the two countries, as well as the personal friendship between Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In India, Trump is a very popular figure. As a rule, his fans are ...
In late December, Chinese authorities reported an outbreak of a type of pneumonia of unknown origin in the city of Wuhan. The causative agent of the disease was a new variation of the coronavirus. On February 11, 2020, the World Health Organization named the disease COVID-19. The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) then described the virus as “severe ...
An emergency meeting of European powers took place in Munich, Germany, on September 29–30, 1938, and an agreement was quickly reached– on Hitler’s terms. Mechanisms of dialogue have often opened the door to radically new formations in Europe, for better or worse. Four decades later, the Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, triggered the Cold ...
An annual security conference was held in Munich from February 14 to 16. This international forum, which takes place every year in the capital of Bavaria, was originally conceived as a joint event between NATO and the conservative Christian Social Union. Today it is more informal, but the agenda and high level list of participants demonstrates that the problems of ...