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Noah, Peter Pan and the Sleeping Beauty
(Europe – Identity Imagined)
Anis H. Bajrektarevic
Economic downturn; recession of plans and initiatives; €-crisis; Brexit and
irredentism in the UK, Spain, Belgium, Denmark and Italy; lasting instability in
the Euro-Med theatre (debt crisis of the Europe’s south – countries scrutinized
and ridiculed under the nickname PIGS, coupled with the failed states all over
the MENA); terrorism; historic low with Russia; influx of predominantly Muslim
refugees from Levant in unprecedented numbers and intensities since the WWII
exoduses; consequential growth of far-right parties that are exploiting fears
from otherness which are now coupled with already urging labor and social
justice concerns, generational unemployment and socio-cultural anxieties… The
very fundaments of Europe are shaking.
Strikingly, there is a very little public debate in Europe about it. What is
even more worrying is the fact that any self-assessing questioning of Europe’s
involvement and past policies in the Middle East, and Europe’s East is simply
off-agenda. Immaculacy of Brussels and the Atlantic-Central Europe-led EU is
unquestionable. Corresponding with realities or complying with a dogma?
* * * *
One of the leading figures of European Renaissance that grossly inspired
European renewal, Dante, puts Prophet Muhamed to the 8th
circle of his famous Inferno. The only individuals bellow Muhamed were
Judas, Brutus, and Satan. “Islam was seen as the negation of Christianity, as
anti-Europe…and Muhammed as an Antichrist in alliance with the Devil…” as Rana
Kabbani noted in his luminary piece Imperial Fictions.
However, both religions trace their origins back to Abraham. They both lived in
harmony (or at least they cohabitated for centuries within the MENA proper,
notably in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq). Why was than there no harmonious
relationship between Christian Europe and the Middle East? Was Europe opting to
repress the Muslims in order to artificially generate a homogenous European self?
This is a story of the past centuries – one may say. Still, absence of any
self-reflection on the side of the EU towards its policy in the Middle East
today, makes it worth to revisit some of the bleak chapters of European history,
and the genesis of its pre-secular and secular thoughts.
Civitas Dei Brussels: Extra Euro-Atlanticum, nulla
salus
Europe came to be known as ‘Christendom’ because its identity was imagined or
invented as the Catholic in contradistinction to the Islamic Middle East and to
the Eastern (true or Orthodox) Christianity. The Christianity, of course,
originated in the Middle East not Europe. It was subsequently universalised and
Europeanised by the Balkan-born Roman Emperor, who spent much of his life on
Bosporus and hence buried in Asia Minor – Constantin the Great. Surely, it was
by design of this glorious Emperor that the city of Rome was (re)turned into an
administrative periphery, politico-ideological outcast and geostrategic suburbia.
Therefore, the post Roman/Byzantine inauguration of ‘Christendom’ as a pure
western culture necessitated a sustained intellectual acrobatics: Such an
inversion (ideological and geopolitical periphery presenting itself as a centre)
required both physical coercion and imposed narrative over the extensive space
and time.
This a ’la
card creation of Catholic Christendom or to say: Western Ummah, served two vital
objectives: domestic and external. Both helped solidification of the feudal
socio-economic and politico-military system, and based on that of a precolonial
European collective identity. Domestically, it served for a coherent sense of
selfhood (us vs. them paradigm): unity, oppression and obedience (extra
ecclesiam nulla salus – no salvation outside the church, following the old
Roman rational ‘no world beyond Limes
line’, or the modern one: ‘no prosperity outside the EU’). Externally, here was
the justification for military voyages and other forms of organized plunders,
all coupled with a coercive societal identity.
A Catholic Renaissance Europe soon realized that, in order to effectively
project itself – to physically and/or mentally colonise overseas territories –
it needed either coercion (rarefying and assimilation), labour-camp detention (slavery)
or final solution (physical extermination). These strategic dilemmas influenced
and dominated European debates of the time. It brought about the conception of
the ‘noble savage’ – who could be assimilated, versus the ‘ignoble savage’ who
was destined for either labour detention or final solution. That
coerce-or-exterminate dilemma of ‘soul salvationists’ even culminated within the
pre-Westphalian Christian Ummah. It was in the famous Valladolid controversy of
1550, by which Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda’s notion of the ignoble savage
faced off against Bartolomé de Las Casa’s view of the noble savage.
In both cases – the claim was offered – the Amero/AfroAsian Natives deserve
salvation as they have a ‘strong desire for it’, but the views differed on
whether the Natives’ prone wishes exceeded their mental capacity to receive
Christianity. Hence, the debates – which were the roots and origins of the later
liberal theories as well as the early precursors of the subsequent regime
change,
humanitarian intervention and
preemption doctrines – always presupposed the inferiority (and passivity)
of the Natives. Frankly, this remains a constant behaviour in international
relations: E.g. views on Libya differed, as they differ today on Syria. However,
what is common to all views is; nobody consults the local population and
considers what they would like for themselves.
[1]
Legitimizing the imperialism of imagination
In a course of subsequent centuries, the notion of final solution underwent
through a sophistication, and was eventually replaced by the combination of
cultural conversions/ submissions
(induced submissiveness), politico-military obedience and socio-economic
apartheid. A subtle apartheid (that is easy to deny, but hard to prove) is
always better than the brute genocide (which is traceable and easily
quantifiable). At the peaks of imperialism a noble-ignoble savage
dilemma was embodied in an implicit and explicit racism. Debate was focused on a
question whether the civilizational inferiority can be remedied through the
imperial ‘civilizing’ mission, with social Darwinists and ‘scientific’ racists
being rather pessimistic, but more solutions’ instructive.
The so-called central dilemma of liberals (Is it liberal to impose liberal
values on illiberal societies) was of course only an innocently looking tip
of the large iceberg, of the tireless othering. This ‘epistemology’ was further
soft-embedded in the so-called Peter Pan theory with a romanticised image of the
Other as more childishly careless and helpless, than intentionally cruel and
barbaric; being rather alluring, promiscuous and exotic. Essentially, the East
as an innocently enveloped child who would never grow up. This, of course, gave
rise to various binary categorisations, the us-vs.-them/either-or
listings in order to facilitate a decisive and long-lasting differentiation
between the constructed West and the East.[2]
The West as a constructed male vs. the East as a constructed female. A
‘mind-oriented’ west vs. a ‘body-oriented’ east. Phallusoid peninsulas and
islands of (Atlantic-Scandinavian) Europe vs. womb-like continental landmass of
Afro-Asia; Erective and explosive vs. reflective and implosive; an Omnipresent (ever
seafaring and trading) extroverted male vs. humble, handcrafting, waiting female.
Masculin, phallusoid, progressively erected temporal linearity vs. periodic
menstruation leakages in regressive cycles of stagnation. Clearly, anything
beyond that was deemed inconsequential.
Physical, material, ideological, active, polarizing,
determined vs. metaphysical, spiritual, esoteric, atmospheric, inclusive,
holistic. No wonder that all operationalized ideologies originated solely in
Europe. What else, since no one ever, but Asians revealed any significant
religion to the world.[3]
Gradually, the imperial civilizing mission (Expansion is a path to Security)
got a new form. It became a moral duty – R2P (Responsibility to Protect),
as much as the parental duty is to raise their infant child. The handsome,
masculine and strong Western Prince Charming has one duty – to emancipate
his Eastern Sleeping Beauty. Giving a ‘kiss’ meant projecting the western
physical military presence, Christianity and commerce.[4]
Who was/is the Eastern Sleeping Beauty?
Rudyard Kipling’s famous 1899 poem, The White’s Man Burden
offers some answers while describing the Eastern peoples as ‘half-devil and
half-child’. “The blame of those ye better / The hate of those ye guard” –
Kipling warns and instructs, he describes and invites. In his classic novel of
1847, Tancred, much celebrated British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli
claims “A Saxon race, protected by an insular position, has stamped its diligent
and methodic character of the century. And when a superior race, with a superior
idea to Work and Order, advances, its state will be progressive…All is race!”
Quite an intellectual acrobatics for Disraeli himself, who was neither Saxonic
nor Christian.
Over the period, western Catholic missionaries constituted one of the most
powerful and influential lobbying voices for this civilizing mission. It was of
course weaponisation of religion, a notorious misuse for ideological purposes.
Same like today, fanatics then and there, were identified and further
radicalised, to say ’inspired’. Eventually, they usually got hired as the
AGITPROP/Ideological police by the predatory elites, hid behind the Feudal
European states. Naturally, the justification was looked upon in any Biblical
narrative. E.g. the re-invoking the Genesis story of Noah’s three sons, and
interpreting it as the ‘duty’ of Japheth (Europe) to absorb Shem (the Asians)
and enslave and colonise Ham or Canaan (the Black Africa and Indianos of America).
Amazingly, according to Genesis ch.9, verse 27: “God shall enlarge Japheth and
he shall dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant”.
The later Protestant revival infused the next wave of Christian missionaries to
force this narrative into the matrix of colonisation as ‘wilful’ implants onto
the minds and bodies of overseas peoples. Therefore, James Lorrimer and other
architects of that-time political and international legal order divided the
world in three segments: civilized White, barbarous Yellow and savage Black.
Yellows
were ‘fallen people’, a
terra infantilis to civilize (what will later evolve into indirect rule,
with a social apartheid in place), the area occupied by the Blacks, Redbones
and Aborigine was a ‘borderless space’, terra nullius
just to conquer and settle, since the indigenous have no ‘birthright’ to it (meaning:
physical colonisation and direct rule, final solution and genocide).
Unfinished business of ‘salvation’ came back to Europe of 20th
century. Hitler’s interpretation of it was: civilized White
(Arian) – Central Europe;
Yellows (to be put under indirect rule, with ‘only’ social apartheid in
place) Atlantic and Scandinavian Europe; Blacks
(predestined for a physical colonisation of superior race upon a decisive final
solution and genocide) all Slavic states of Eastern and Russophonic Europe.
Indeed, ever since the 18th
century on, European notion that ‘civilization’ was the monopoly of the West,
clearly implied that there is no civilization – and therefore, salvation –
outside the western model. Famous historian Toynbee calls it “a secularized
version of the primitive Western Christian proposition Nemini salus …nisi in
Ecclesia.” See for yourself how much current debates, sparked by the ongoing
refugee crisis, follow the above patters.
Triangular economy of othering
There is a consensus within the scientific community that the critical factor in
redefining Europe as the advanced West was the expansion of its strategic depth
westward to the America upon 1492. This enabled the so-called triangular
transcontinental trade, brutally imposed by Europeans: Enslaved Africans shipped
to America in exchange for gold and silver from there to Europe, in order to
cover European deficits in importing the cutting-edge technologies, manufactured
products, other goods and spices from a that-time superior Asia and the Middle
East.[5]
The Afro-America yields were so colossal for Atlantic Europe that many scholars
assume the so–called Industrial revolution rather as an evolutionary anomaly
than a natural process of development, which was primarily pivoting in Asia.
Such a rapid shift from a peripheral status to an ‘advanced civilization’ of
course necessitated a complete reconstruction of western identity. This
acrobatics – in return – also enhanced the split between Eastern/Russophone,
closer to and therefore more objective towards the Afroasian realities, and
Western (Atlantic/Scandinavian/ Central) Europe, more exclusive, self-centred
and ignorant sphere.
While the Atlantic flank progressively developed its commercial and naval power
as to economically and demographically project itself beyond the continent, the
landlocked Eastern Europe was lagging behind. It stuck in feudalism, and
involuntarily constituted a cordon sanitaire
to Islam and the Russo-oriental East. Gradually, past the 15th
century the idea of ‘Western Europe’ begun to crystallise as the Ottoman Turks
and the Eastern Europeans were imagined and described as barbarians. During the
17th
and 18th
century, Atlantic Europe portrayed itself as the prosperous West that borders
‘pagan/barbarian’ neighbours to its near east, and the ‘savage’ neighbours to
its south and west, and Far East. Consequently, we cannot deny a role that the
fabricated history as well as the ‘scientific’ racism and its theories played in
a formation and preservation of European identity.
The Enlightenment was a definite moment in the reinvention of European identity.
The quest came along with the fundamental question who are we, and what
is our place in the world? Answering that led on to the systematisation,
classification and – frankly – to invention of the world. From the Renaissance
to the Enlightenment, a kind of an intellectual apartheid regime was forming.
The rise of the West was portrayed as a pure virgin birth as John M. Hobson
fairly concluded. Europeans delineated themselves as the (only or the most)
progressive subject of the world history in past, presence and future, while the
Eastern peoples (e.g. Asian as ‘the people without history’) were seen as inert,
passive and corrosive. While the Solar system ‘became’ heliocentric, the sake
and fate of our planet turned plain – ‘Europocentric’. The
world is flat mantra set the stage. (following the geostrategic dictatum
the expansion is a path to security.
“The idea of Europe found its most enduring expression in the confrontation with
the Orient in the age of imperialism. It was in the encounter with other
civilizations that the identity of Europe was shaped. Europe did not derive its
identity from itself but from the formation of a set of global contrasts. In the
discourse that sustained this dichotomy of Self and Other, Europe and the Orient
became opposite poles in a system of civilizational values which were defined by
Europe.” – notes Delantry.
Even the English word to determine, position, adapt, adjust, align, identify,
conform, direct, steer, navigate or command has an oriental connotation. To find
and locate itself opposite to Orient, means to orient
oneself.
Feudal Europe had identified itself negatively against Levant and Islam. Clearly,
it was an identity heavily resting on insecurity. An external manifestation of
inner insecurity is always aggressive assertiveness.
Is this still alive or even operative? How it correlates today?
Europe repeatedly missed to answer to the East and Middle East through a
dialogue (instruments) and consensus (institutions) although having both (CoE,
OSCE, Barcelona Process, etc.). For the last 25 years, it primarily responded to
the MENA militarily (or/and with sanctions) – via ‘Coalitions of the Willing’.
However, for a rapidly economically and demographically
contracting Europe, the confrontation does not pay off anymore. While
practically still yesterday (by the end of WWII), four of the five largest
economies were situated in Europe, today only one is not in Asia. None is in
Europe.[6]
(Likewise, while the US economy contributed with 54% of the world output in
1945, today it hardly has 1/3 of that share.)
Simply, the Old Continent is not a wealthy club anymore. It
is a place with a memory of its wealthy past. The EU has to learn how to
deescalate and compromise. It is in its best interest, for the sake of its only
viable future. Therefore, it is a high time for the
Brussels-headquartered Europe to evolve in its views and actings.
Let us start by answering the question: Is the so-called Russian expansionism or
MENA ‘Islamofascism’ spontaneous or provoked, is it nascent or only a mirror
image of something striking in front of it? And after all, why the indigenous
Europe’s Muslims (those of the Balkans) and their twins, indigenous Christians
of MENA (those of Levant) are now two identically slim shadows on a bulletproof
wall.

Anis H. Bajrektarevic
Vienna, 14 FEB 2016
anis@corpsdiplomatique.cd
Author is chairperson and professor in international law and global political
studies, Vienna, Austria. He authored three books: FB – Geopolitics of
Technology (published by the New York’s Addleton Academic Publishers);
Geopolitics – Europe 100 years later
(DB, Europe), and the just released Geopolitics – Energy – Technology by
the German publisher LAP. No Asian century is his forthcoming book,
scheduled for later this year.
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[1]
For centuries, it follows the same
matrix: doctrinated/induced inferiority, denouncing, attack, marginalization,
passivation, plunder, indirect rule, remote control presence. Or, reduced to a
binary code formula: victimisation-criminalisation. Namely: humanitarian intervention.
[2]
Small surprise that the 43rd US President (un)famously claimed: ‘you are
either with us or against us’... His father, the 41st US President, strategized the Cold War and
summarised its epilogue effectively: ‘We win, they lose’.
[3]
To this end: Inventive, proactive,
scientific, rational, disciplined, sell-controlled/self-constraining, sane,
sensible, practical, ‘mind-oriented’, independent, and most of all paternal
West. The East, of course, was on the opposite side and inferior: imitative,
passive, superstitious, lazy, irrational, spontaneous, insane, emotional, exotic,
body-oriented, dependent, and above all, child-like. Tall, matured ‘masculinity’
vs. immature and physically underdeveloped ‘femininity’. The masculine phallus
of military, industry, technology, shipping and trade that is welcomed, if not
heartedly invited, to tap and drill the womb-like dwell of resources, while at
the same time seeding the ideological semen of ‘civilization’.
[4]
Most of the so-called International/Cross-continental
Trade Pacts are closer to the capitulation agreements than to any fair, balanced
and mutually beneficial commercial accords. What a popular language of today
calls barriers to trade are in fact the socio-economic sovereign
rights and other checks-and-balances national well-being instruments.
[5]
In order to illustrate a magnitude,
let’s note a following data: Starting from an early 16th century for consecutive
300 years, 85% of the world’s silver production and 70% of the world’s gold
output came from the Americas. Further on, during the 17th, 18th and 19th century the role of Black
slavery, slave trading, American Black slave-driven production centres and Negro markets, all significantly contributed to
Atlantic Europe’s agricultural and industrial ‘breakthrough’ – as we are
celebrating it today. Even the US Founding Fathers were slaveholders (5 of the 7
principal ones: Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and
George Washington).
[6]
The moment of ‘liberal truth’ always
comes from Atlantic. Thus, Ana Palacio who served both sides of Atlantic (as the
former Spanish Foreign Ministers and the former Senior Vice President of the
Washington-based WB) – among many others – recently warned the Western Ummah: “After
years of handwringing over Obama’s strategic “pivot” to Asia, even as Russia was
stirring up trouble in Ukraine, Europe is once again a strategic focus for the
US. But the deeper message is far less encouraging. The US is acting because its
European partners have not. This divergence is troubling. American engagement is
necessary to provide momentum, but it is
Europe’s weight that has served as the critical mass required to move the world’s liberal order in a positive
direction. From the perspective of the
European Union, the latest US security bailout raises the possibility that after
more than two decades of growing prominence, Europe will lose its agenda-setting
power.” (text underlined, by A.B.)
February 23, 2016
Key to Stop Refugee Flows:
Unique higher education programme for Conflict zones
Prof. Dr. DJAWED SANGDEL
The EU Refugee crisis can not be effectively
tackled without addressing the root problems. Why the unique higher
education program for development in conflict zones with or without
internet connectivity is the key to stop refugee flow? Is this the
cheapest, most effective and most durable way to eventually reverse
the trend by stabilizing the sending countries for a longer run?
KEY
BENEFITS:
§
Accessible in all geographic areas - including conflict zones
§ Accessible to all communities and groups
(regardless of gender or economic status)
§ No cost to students
§ High quality, needs-based content
§ Flexible learning access – TV, online platform and
offline CD package
§ Quality controlled assessment
§ Designed and led by international experts in
higher education
§ Programme delivered in 3 languages: English, Dari
and Pashto
§ A model for accessible, needs-based higher
education globally
Dunya University of Afghanistan (DUA), in association
with Swiss UMEF University of Geneva, has developed a new,
critically-needed education programme for delivery to the population
of Afghanistan. Drawing on the expertise and extensive experience of
leaders from Afghanistan’s higher education sector and faculty from
around the world, this initiative provides access to high quality
higher education specifically designed to respond to the needs of
the Afghan population, whose country continues to suffer the impact
of decades of war.
One of the major problems in Afghanistan for over 40
years now has been the lack of access to education across all
sectors of society. We have therefore developed a new method of
teaching open to all – at no cost to the student.
The key innovation of this integrated, progressive
programme is its flexible access using three methods of delivery:
teaching by television, an online learning platform and offline
learning (with CD course and textbook package). This means that
the programme is accessible to all communities, including those in
conflict zones, as well as to different learner groups,
economically, geographically and culturally.
The initiative’s rationale is anchored in the
critical need to develop an educated and confident population in
Afghanistan, and in doing so, nurture future leaders with an ethical
focus on the interests of the country and region – and the world. By
providing high quality education opportunities to diverse groups in
all sections of the population, this programme promotes and supports
future economic prosperity, stronger social cohesion and therefore
greater security in Afghanistan.
Students are offered undergraduate and graduate
modules in relevant subjects including management and business,
finance and economics, innovation, leadership and diplomacy. All
courses are designed and led by expert international faculty, with
syllabi specifically adapted to the social and economic needs of
Afghanistan, such as leadership courses for women and courses
designed to foster and support entrepreneurial activity. The
courses are available in English, Dari and Pashto.
Delivery of the learning programme via three channels
gives students optimum flexibility and accessibility: DUA’s online
platform serves those students in areas with connectivity, while the
offline CD and textbook packs means students with no internet access
can also follow the programmes. DUA’s own television channel is
dedicated solely to educational broadcasting and allows communities
in even remote or conflict-affected zones to access the education
programmes.
Quality-controlled assessment will take place through
interim exam centres set up in regional locations according to local
enrolment numbers. This sets the programme apart from education
delivered purely online, by maintaining rigorous, university
assessment standards.
Due to the ongoing shortage of higher education
provision, more than 150,000 people annually remain unable to
obtain a university place in Afghanistan. Our programme offers this
sector of the population the opportunity to gain an education to
support both their future and the future development of their
country. It also provides young people who would otherwise leave
Afghanistan with an incentive to stay in their country, and achieve
success as students, citizens and potential future leaders.
A quarter of refugees worldwide are from
Afghanistan. Afghans make up the second largest refugee
population in Europe, with at least 64,000 applications for asylum
so far this year. The Afghan population needs the opportunity,
incentive and motivation of accessible, quality education in order
to build confidence within the country and region.
Our initiative is supported by DUA’s existing
reputation in Afghanistan as leading education provider and trusted
brand. We are very proud of this unique programme, which has been
developed by academic experts of over 20 nationalities during a
period of over five years. The faculty and researchers involved in
development of the project have significant experience in education
in conflict and/or post-conflict zones, and all bring their
commitment to development of accessible education to support
leadership for peace and security.
Following successful delivery of this programme in
Afghanistan, our aim is to make this programme available as an
effective model for other conflict and post-conflict countries in
world.

Dr. Djawed SANGDEL, professor of
Entrepreneurship, is the Swiss UMEF University Rector, based in
Geneva, Switzerland. He authors numerous publications, applied
research findings, programs and projects on three continents.
15th February 2016
IN MEMORIAM
Obituary for Alesh -
Čitulja za
Aleša

Aleš Debeljak
Poet, thinker, professor, father and husband
Modern Diplomacy’s Advisory Board member and
frequent contributor
Quantum
Islam: Towards a new worldview
Murray Hunter and Azly Rahman
Introduction
In
concluding our essay on Tawhidic-Singularity as a new philosophy of
Islam, we proposed that Muslims need to interpret the core teaching
of One-ness from a kaleidoscopic perspective. We asked readers to
reflect upon the applicability of Chaos or Complexity Theory to view
Islam as an organic and living religion inviting its believers to
look at the concept of One-ness as the manifesting of Many-ness. In
this essay, we go deeper into the discussion of the soul of the
Quran itself and how Muslims could perceive and read it as a
postmodern text with multiple-level meanings based on his/her unique
life experiences. We wish to propose the worldview of “Quantum
Islam,” as a new way looking at this cultural belief system. We
invite readers to think of Islam as more than just unquestioning
faith and rites and rituals but as an evolving text to be made
alive. The idea of a “living Quran” is a means of perceiving and
feeling one’s existence as a world of interconnectedness. This world
of deep personal connectivity is a world of the physical, emotional
and spiritual self as it exists in the realm of the Universal self
as a world designed as a Quantum being in itself.
Multiple Universes and the Quran
Islam is about what cannot at present be explained intrinsically
through the science we know today.
MURRAY HUNTER is an Australian academic, entrepreneur,
researcher, and writer who has spent more than 35 years within the
region. He is a contributor to a number of international news sites
around the world.
DR AZLY RAHMAN is an academician, long-time columnist for
Malaysiakini, an author of seven books on Malaysia and the
complexities of hypermodernity and globalisation, and teaches
courses in Global Politics, Culture, American Studies, Education,
and Philosophy. He currently resides in the United States.
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January 28, 2016
Currency dictatorship
– the struggle to end it
by Rakesh Krishan Simha
India and the BRICS are giving the US dollar the boot? Is it
really so?
The
last time a country decided to dump the dollar in the oil business,
the US destroyed it. Now India, the world’s third largest economy,
and Iran have agreed to settle their outstanding oil dues in rupees.
What’s more, the two countries may conduct all future trade in their
national currencies.
This follows an agreement between Iran and India in mid-2011 in
which both sides decided to settle 45 per cent of India’s oil import
bill in rupees and the remaining 55 per cent in euros. In March 2012
the two countries inked the Rupee Payment Mechanism that allowed
India to buy crude oil in its national currency. Iran then used the
funds to buy products from Indian manufacturers.
Ironically, it is the US itself which is responsible for the
dollar’s elimination from India-Iran trade. The Rupee Payment
Mechanism was set up to skirt American economic sanctions on Tehran.
Iranian oil forms a significant portion of India’s energy
requirements. Similarly, the Iranians rely upon India for steel,
medicines, food and chemicals.
Author:
Rakesh Krishan Simha
New Zealand-based journalist and foreign affairs analyst. According
to him, he writes on stuff the media distorts, misses or ignores.
Rakesh started his career in 1995 with New Delhi-based Business
World magazine, and later worked in a string of positions at other
leading media houses such as India Today, Hindustan Times, Business
Standard and the Financial Express, where he was the news editor.
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January 19, 2016
Creative Economy and the bases of UNCTAD’s Creative
Economy Programme as instrument for growth and development
by Giuliano Luongo
Firstly,
it is important to introduce the basic definitions and features of
the creative economy approach. There is no consensus in literature
around the definition of creative economies and creative industries.
Scholarly interest in the creative economy arose quite recently,
shifting the topic from a marginal position into the centre of
various analyses and statistics. Despite the definitional and
taxonomical issues, in general the creative economy concerns the
activities that generate or exploit knowledge or information.
An issue compounding the difficulty to define the creative economy
and creative industries lies in the “grey zone” between the border
of cultural and creative industries and traditional manufacturing,
which allows for the blending of artistic imagination with
handcrafted knowledge, creating unique products of renown. However,
there is consensus around the importance of the creative economy.
Over the period 2000-2005, trade in creative goods and services
increased at an average annual rate of 8.7%. World exports of
creative products were $424.4 billion in 2005 as compared to $227.5
billion in 1996. Creative services in particular enjoyed an export
growth of 8.8 % annually between 1996 and 2005 (UNCTAD, 2008).
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December 24, 2015
Ecological Globalistan
(From Paris COP 21, Of Nearly Everything)
Anis H. Bajrektarevic
Speaking
in Paris on 07th
December 2015, the UN Secretary General have again reminded the
world leaders that: “More than 1 billion people worldwide live
without electricity. Nearly 3 billion people depend on smoky,
dangerous traditional fuels for cooking and heating. Access to
modern, reliable, affordable clean energy is equally important for
ending extreme poverty and reducing inequality…The clock is ticking
toward climate catastrophe.” Nihilists, professional optimists, or
status quo conservators would call it ‘environmental alarmism’…
What is really the state of our planet?
* * * *
Back in 1990s, there was a legendary debate between two eminent
scientists Carl Sagan, Astrophysicist and Ernst Mayr, evolutionary
biologist. The issue was the question of all questions – is there
any intelligent life out there. Sagan – closer to mathematics, and
counting of starts and worlds attached to it – argued that out of
innumerable planets like ours, life must flourish at many of them.
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December 8, 2015
This is really a clash of civilizations
Vlastimir Mijovic
Samuel P. Huntington,
known for his book "The Clash of Civilizations", died in 2008 and
did not live to see him in action exercised his prophecies. He would
have been proud of some of his predictions, but - with a little
professorial self-criticism - saw order and how much was wrong with
their grades.
simply
is not good to define the concept of civilization, taking into
account solely on geography, not understanding that civilization in
the modern world are not separated by recognizable boundaries; that
within each of these pieces of the world there are at least two
separate, mutually opposed, civilized and backward world.
The clash of civilizations is well-known theory that a
civilizational identity will be the main cause of division in the
modern world. The theory was popularized by noted professor in his
article "The Clash of Civilizations", which was published in and
have since spread to the book, which has acquired a worldwide
readership.
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November 26, 2015
No more
War on Terror, please Europe
URGENTLY NEEDS
DE-NAZIFICATION
Prof. dr.
Anis H. Bajrektarevic
There is a claim constantly
circulating the EU: ‘multiculturalism is dead in Europe’.
Dead or maybe d(r)ead?... That much comes from a cluster of European
nation-states that love to romanticize – in a grand metanarrative
of dogmatic universalism – their appearance as of the coherent
Union, as if they themselves lived a long, cordial and credible
history of multicul-turalism. Hence, this claim and its resonating
debate is of course false. It is also cynical because it is
purposely deceiving. No wonder, as the conglomerate of
nation-states/EU has silently handed over one of its most important
debates – that of European anti-fascistic identity, or otherness –
to the wing-parties. This was repeatedly followed by the selective
and contra-productive foreign policy actions of the Union.
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November 1, 2015
EUROPE IN DISARRAY, AND THE BREAKUP LOOMING !?
Vlastimir Mijović
(From World War II until today, the world was
faced with a crisis of this type of refugee. But it is even more
dangerous as hints at new, with even larger scale: the
disintegration of the European Union)
Two-thirds
of our citizens favor the entry of Bosnia and Herzegovina into the
European Union. This year's survey of the Directorate for European
Integration has shown that the 78 percent of the citizens of Bosnia
and Herzegovina, if a referendum on joining the EU, supported BiH's
membership in the community of states.
The information that is published these days, however, almost no
value. The study, in fact, conducted in the first quarter of 2015.
And from then on, everything turned upside down.
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November 1, 2015
Nord Stream Nr. 2: The
Project’s Implications in Europe
By Vladimir Socor
Russia,
Germany and a consortium of Western European companies have
re-activated the Gazprom-led Nord Stream Two gas pipeline project.
Parallel to the existing Nord Stream One pipeline on the Baltic
seabed, Nord Stream Two would double the system’s total capacity to
110 billion cubic meters (bcm) annually, all earmarked for direct
delivery to Germany.
Nord Stream is billed as the world’s biggest natural gas
transportation project, in terms of pipeline length and throughput
capacities. Initially announced in 2011–2012 through non-binding
agreements of intent, Nord Stream Two had to be shelved for the
duration of Europe’s economic slump. The project agreement signed on
September 4, 2015, however, is binding. Gazprom’s management
anticipates economic-financial recovery in Western Europe and,
consequently, gas demand recovery by 2019, the target date for
completing Nord Stream Two. It also expects gas extraction to
decline in Norway after having been capped in the Netherlands, thus
boosting European import demand (Gazprom.com, accessed September
14).
Vladimir Socor
Vladimir Socor is an independent researcher, analyst on central and
Eastern Europe, and former diplomat.
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October 23, 2015
Dok Rusija pomaže
legitimne vlade
SAD-ih
uništava
While Russia
assists legitimate governments the US destroys them
by Thierry Meyssan
Moscow’s military intervention in
Syria has not simply overturned the fortunes of war and spread panic
throughout the ranks of the jihadist groups. It has also shown the
rest of the world the current capacities of the Russian army in
situations of real warfare. To everyone’s astonishment, it has
proved to possess a system of signal jamming capable of rendering
the Atlantic Alliance deaf and blind. Despite a far superior budget,
the United States have just lost their military domination.
Published first by the Voltaire news under: ‘
The Russian army asserts its superiority in conventional
warfare’
Thierry Meyssan
French intellectual, founder and
chairman of Voltaire Network and the
Axis for Peace Conference. His
columns specializing in
international relations feature in
daily newspapers and weekly
magazines in Arabic, Spanish and
Russian. His last two books
published in English :
9/11 the Big Lie and
Pentagate
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October 21, 2015
THE REBIRTH OF THE PATRIARCH OF MOSCOW
Written by Dr Filippo Romeo
The Orthodox Church and the Christian tradition have always
assumed a role of primary importance in Russian history and
tradition.
The origins of Christianity in Russia go back to 988 and coincide
with the baptism of Prince Vladimir the Great. He had come to
Constantinople, following which the evangelization of the
Principality Kievan Rus’ started. The latter included the space
currently occupied by the areas of Russia, the Ukraine and Belarus,
considered the predecessor of the Russian Empire. Formed by Igor in
882, the Principality Kievan Rus’ is the first political form
organised by the Oriental Slav tribes placed on those territories.
This gave rise to the common orthodox faith and the Russian people’s
sense of national belonging.
Dr Filippo ROMEO, Director, Infrastructure and Development Programme, IsAG Rome,
Italy.
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October 16, 2015
Of Europe, Syria and
antropogeographic inversion
Prof.
Anis H. Bajrektarevic
Of Europe, Syria and
antropogeographic inversion
(Unbearable pressures from the insecure edges
of a contracting civilization )
How can we observe and interpret (the distance
between) success and failure from a historical perspective? This
question remains a difficult one to (satisfy all with a single)
answer...
The immediate force behind the rapid and successful European
overseas projection was actually the combination of two elements.
Europe’s economic advancement (less the capacity to invent than the
readiness to retake from others, the so-called superior adaptive
capacity in technology, navigation, transport) coupled with a
demographic expansion – from early 16th century on. Still, is it
credible to say that European history was enhanced by a progressive
temporal linearity, whereas the rest of this planet was/is ruled by
regressive temporal circles of stagnation? Or, is – on contrary –
Gerard Delanty right when he claims that “Europe did not derive its
identity from itself but from the formation of a set of global
contrasts”?
Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarevic Vienna, 01 OCT 2015
Contact: anis@bajrektarevic.eu
Author is professor in international law and global political
studies, based in Vienna, Austria. His previous book Geopolitics of Technology – Is There Life after Facebook?
was published by the New York’s Addleton
Academic Publishers. Just released is his newest book Geopolitics –
Europe 100 years later.
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October 9, 2015
Refugees as a means to an end – The EU's most dangerous man
One week ago we published an analysis and concrete proposal how the
European Union might deal with the issue of refugees, especially Syrian
asylum seekers crossing the Aegean to reach Greece, and then the Western
Balkans, to get to Germany: ESI policy proposal: Why
people don't need to drown in the Aegean (17 September 2015) Die Zeit, Andrea Böhm, "Zäune,
Paragrafen, Drohungen – nützt alles nichts" ("Fences, paragraphs,
threats – all to no avail") (21 September 2015).
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Michael Martens, "Auf
dem Meer gibt es keine Mauern" ("There are no walls on the sea")
(18 September 2015) There were
many reactions, in the media and among policy makers. This week we
will publish an update, assessing the still inadequate proposals adopted
in the EU. At the same time the dangers of the failure of European leaders to
address this issue are becoming clear.
While
EU institutions and governments discuss how to deal with the
consequences of this refugee crisis (how to register, allocate and
accommodate tens of thousands) or dwell on steps which have at best an
impact in the very long-term (diplomacy or limited interventions in
Syria) one leader stands out for his ability to use the refugees as a
mean to a very different agenda: Viktor Orban. So far, he has been
astonishingly successfully.
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For Viktor Orban, this is, so far, a very good crisis.
The most dangerous man in the EU today
The Picnic speech (5 September 2015)
-
Viktor Orban in Kötcse
24 September 2015
Empty Dayton straw
When you already have money for bombastic meetings, not missing any
customers for speculation, to which should be applied much more serious and
challenging themes of Dayton political corpse
Each story for your time. So it should be, but is not, and with that Dayton.
And Bosnia could disappear, but the stories about "what would happen if it
was" not ever.
On Saturday in front of the microphones and cameras Dayton's-game in Banja
Luka on Monday the continuation gatherings transferred to Sarajevo, with
dozens of politicians, analysts, historians, diplomats, statesmen closer
look (Croatia, Slovenia) and remotely (Malaysia, Turkey). And how many will
only unnecessary memorial meetings on the topic which has long been nothing
to add or take away, to be held at the end of the year, when officially the
twentieth anniversary of the fall of a peace agreement that is in our
country (1) ended the war, when the ( 2) surrounded by chains to the bar
formally keep them together, and (3) appointed supervisors (side, of course)
to worry that something gets out of their control.
These three items
are essential to describe the scope of the agreement negotiated in
Dayton in 1995. Everything else was extorted recognition of arms
created "reality" on the one hand and throwing beautiful illusion in
the eyes, on the other hand. A illusions, and therefore the
development dimension of Dayton, which some see as the beginning of
better days, died before 16 years. Then the High Representative
Wolfgang Petritsch put an end to "and" a variety of hassle with the
rights of displaced persons and refugees to return to their
residential property. In late October 1999, he imposed the law, and
later detailed, binding instructions which tenancy rights in both
entities turns into - ownership!
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September 21, 2015
Muslim
Australia and the search for a solution to the "War on Terror"
Prof. Murray Hunter
There
are almost 500,000 Muslims in Australia, with 400 mosques serving
them. According to the Australian Security Intelligence Organization
(ASIO)
2012-103 Annual Report to the Australian Parliament, there are
over 200 terror investigations going on. This infers that massive
government resources are being ploughed into monitoring and
surveillance of the Muslim community in Australia, as
four Australian Prime Ministers have admitted.
There appears to be an insecurity on the
part of lawmakers and successive governments about Muslim citizens
in the Australian community. At first it was about
immigration, and violence, which grew into terrorism after 9/11.
The
evidence used to support policy has not been accurate according
to prominent Australian Tim Costello.
Official government comment and stories
from within the Muslim community itself, indicate that the
security
services are spying on their own people in a
similar manner
they did with communist groups within the Australian community
back in the 1950s and 60s.
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Prof. Murray Hunter, Australia-born
notable author, innovator and entrepreneur is the MD’s Advisory
Board Vice-Chairman
August 2015
The
Rebirth of the Patriarch of Moscow:
Vladimir Putin’s politics in harmony with
the Orthodox Church
By Dr Filippo ROMEO
The Orthodox Church and the Christian tradition have always
assumed a role of primary importance in Russian history and
tradition.
The
origins of Christianity in Russia go back to 988 and coincide with
the baptism of Prince Vladimir the Great. He had come to
Constantinople, following which the evangelization of the
Principality Kievan Rus’ started. The latter included the space
currently occupied by the areas of Russia, the Ukraine and Belarus,
considered the predecessor of the Russian Empire. Formed by Igor in
882, the Principality Kievan Rus’ is the first political form
organised by the Oriental Slav tribes placed on those territories.
This gave rise to the common orthodox faith and the Russian people’s
sense of national belonging.
Retracing the path of the Principality one can indeed observe that
the Orthodox Christian Faith was immediately embraced by those
populations. It also succeeded in asserting itself in the Eastern
zones, where there was b pagan influence. This barely digested the
advent of the new creed and accompanied their evolution, acting as a
stalwart for the Country’s national and cultural identity. Orthodoxy
is even granted with Scripture, which is surely a culture’s
fundamental principle. It was introduced via the spread of
Christianity among the Slav tribes through the creation of the
Cyrillic characters due to two great saints, Cyril and Methodius. It
also constituted the prerequisite for the political and cultural
development of the Principality of Kiev, leaving a heritage that
would last even after its disintegration.
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Dr Filippo ROMEO,
Director, Infrastructure and Development Programme, IsAG Rome,
Italy.
August 8, 2015
SIMULTANEOUS REGIONAL HEAD ELECTIONS IN INDONESIA 2015
By Igor Dirgantara
Abstract
As one of the largest democratic countries, Indonesia will execute
for the first time the regional head election simultaneously in the
first wave. Indonesia should be recorded in the world democratic
history because there will be 269 regions consisting of 9 provinces,
36 cities and 224 districts simultaneously choose the regional head.
Of course, there will be many challenges to be faced. There are some
crucial issues on the implementation of simultaneous elections in
Indonesia on December 9, 2015, namely: the high intensity of the
conflict, the neutrality of the election organizers, list of
election voters, dualism management of political parties, candidates
dolls, dynastic politics, money politics, election offenses and
disputes.
Keywords: Regional Head Election simultaneously, Political
Party, General Election Commission (KPU), the Constitutional Court,
the Election Supervisory Body (Bawaslu), list of voters, (DPT),
Money Politics, Political Dynasty, Candidate Dolls, Political
Campaigns , Regional Election Conflict and Dispute.
Igor Dirgantara is
Lecturer at Faculty of Social Politics, University Jayabaya,
Jakarta, and Director Survey & Polling Indonesia (SPIN).
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August 1, 2015
The Future of Turkey
after the Last Elections:
the Kurdish question and
the economic outlook
Diego Del Priore
The last parliamentary
elections in Turkey mark a political and an institutional turning
point in the country's history. The importance of the vote derives
from two main factors.
Firstly, Prime Minister
Ahmet Davutoglu's Party of Justice and Development (AKP) has lost
its parliamentary majority, although it remains the largest party in
the Parliament with 258 seats and 40.9% of the votes. This is the
first time that the party has been in this position since 2002, when
the AKP swept to power and retained a majority in the Turkish
Parliament.
However, the AKP
failed to
achieve its
objective of 350 seats, as the party leader and president of the
Republic since August 2014, Recep Tayyp Erdogan, had hoped.
This 350
seats threshold would have allowed Erdogan to introduce a series of
constitutional
reforms leading to a reinforcement of the presidential system.
However, Turkish voters would appear to have baulked at this
prospect and have opted to maintain the existing balance of
institutional power. The elections were an indirect referendum on
Erdogan's constitutional intentions.
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Diego Del Priore is
Research associate at the Institute of Advanced Studies in
Geopolitics and Auxiliary Sciences (IsAG)
July 30, 2015
The Power of Geopolitical
Discourse
By Diego Solis
Geopolitics, as a discursive
practice, should be taken seriously. Unfortunately, sometimes we are
so busy with our daily activities and work that we tend to ignore
the fact that the media can, indeed, specialize and geopoliticize a
conflict by ‘labeling’ and ‘identifying’, thus creating a sense of
‘pertinence’ amongst us, the ‘audience’; in other words, creating a
binary world between ‘us’ and ‘them, the ‘other.’ This said, in
order to understand the power of words and images in geopolitics, we
must look back and understand how geopolitical knowledge was
originally produced and thought of.
Although at first glance, while difficult to prove, the true origin
of geopolitical theory may revolve around Darwinism and the rules of
nature—I will not delineate the rules of nature according to Darwin
but rather I will keep my argument in line with that of geopolitics
and discourse. For instance, Friedrich Ratzel (a notable geographer,
ethnographer and biologist), the creator of Lebensraum (the need of
living space), theorized and compared the state to that of a living
organism, in search of augmenting its space to support the carrying
capacity of its species under its physical environment. By the same
token, Rudolf Kjellen—who was actually the first political scientist
to coin the term ‘geopolitics’—viewed the state in a similar manner
as Ratzel: as an organic living being, with its own limbs and
personality, drawing his metaphors from poetry and prose. Friedrich
Ratzel (1844-1904) and Rudolf Kjellen (1864-1922), who were the
creators of the German geopolitical school of thought, had something
in common: they grew up between the transition of a pre-industrial
society (1750-1850) and the beginning of a new industrial society in
continental Europe. Eventually, the story is widely known: their
theories, alongside Mackinder’s, influenced the aggressive
expansionist policies of the Nazis, pushed by Major General Karl
Haushofer. (from Machtpolitik to Weltpolitik)
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Diego Solis Global South Advocate, Founder and chair of Geopolitical Explorers
Consulting Group,
July 30, 2015
YOGA DIPLOMACY
By Umesh MUKHI
Recently, we must have witnessed
the hype in Press about the International Yoga Day celebrations led
by India all over the world.
The event evoked mélange of reactions, while some
highly appraised the initiative there were also some criticisms as
well. Moreover analysts didn’t fall short to offer their own
analysis by analyzing the ancient Indian scriptures and offering
their analyzing in the context of present government under Prime
Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership. What is the essence of Yoga?
How is it related with Religion? Is it a way to exercise India’s
soft power? How is Yoga entering the arena of Diplomacy and
International Affairs? With an intention of offering a holistic
view, I will lay down some perspectives from different angles to
enlighten our reader’s attention.
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July 22, 2015
Europe –
Syriza-ize or Syria-nize

(Key-words: Greece, Germany, ECB, Austerity,
Ukraine, crisis, Syriza, Syria, Podemos)
A freshly released IMF’s World Economic Outlook
brings (yet again, for the sixth year in a row, and for the third
time this year only) no comforting picture to anyone within the G-7,
especially in the US and EU. Neither is comforting the latest pre-Davos
summit released Oxfam study. It hints that 1% is fat and furious, as
some 99% of us are too many on this planet. Will the passionately
US-pushed cross-Atlantic Free Trade Area save the day? Or, would
that Pact-push drag the things over the edge and mark an end of the
unionistic Europe? Is the extended EU conflict with Russia
actually a beginning of the Atlantic-Central EuAnis-BTV1-300.PNG over Russia, an internalization of mega geopolitical and
geo-economic dilemma – who accommodates with whom, in and out of the
Union? Finally, does more Ukrainian (and Eastern Europe) calamities
pave the road for a new cross-continental grand accommodation, of
either austerity-tired France or über- performing Germany
with Russia, therefore the end of the EU? For whose sake Eastern
Europe has been barred of all important debates such as that of
Slavism, identity, social cohesion (eroded by the plunder called
‘privatization’), secularism and antifascism? Why do we suddenly
wonder that all around Germany-led Central Europe, the neo-Nazism
gains ground while only Russia insists on antifascism and
(pan-)Slavism?
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Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarevic Contact:
anis@bajrektarevic.eu
Author is professor in international law and
global political studies, based in Vienna, Austria. His previous
book Geopolitics of Technology – Is There Life after
Facebook? was published by the New York’s Addleton
Academic Publishers. Just released is his newest book Geopolitics – Europe 100 years later.
July 9, 2015
The debt write-off behind Germany's 'economic miracle'
By Benjamin DODMAN
Six decades ago, an agreement to cancel half of postwar Germany's
debt helped foster a prolonged period of prosperity in the war-torn
continent. The new government in Athens says Greece – and Europe –
now need a similar deal. When discussing Greece’s whopping $310 billion debt, the country's
new Prime Minister
Alexis Tsipras likes to recall a time when Europe's great debt
offender was not
Greece,
but
Germany,
today's paragon of fiscal responsibility. The leader of
the radical-left Syriza party refers in particular to an
international conference held in London in 1953, during which West
Germany secured a write-off of more than 50% of debt, accumulated
after two world wars. Back then, with memories of Nazi atrocities
still fresh, many countries were reluctant to offer such generous
debt relief. But the US persuaded its European allies, including
Greece, to relinquish debt repayments and reparations in order to
build a stable and prosperous Western Europe that could contain the
threat from Soviet Russia.
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July 9, 2015
Europe
Agonistes: A Divided Continent Plays Out a Greek Drama

Jamil Maidan Flores
Prof.
Anis H. Bajrektarevic recently launched a book titled, “Europe of
Sarajevo 100 Years Later:
From WWI to www.” Only Prof. Anis, I
think, can write a book of that title, just as he’s the only
intellectual I know who argues passionately that Google is the Gulag
of our time, the prison of the free mind.
His editor tells us that in the book, Prof. Anis
makes the case that the history of Europe, perhaps of the world,
since World War I has been a history of geopolitical imperative. And
that, in the face of climate change, the crisis that grips all of us
is not really ecological, as it never was financial, but moral.
Prof. Anis is chairperson for international law and global political
studies at the University IMC-Krems, Austria. I’ve been reading some
of his recent writings. A native Sarajevan who now lives in Vienna,
he doesn’t see one seamless Europe but several.
There’s Atlantic Europe, a political powerhouse
that boasts two nuclear states. There’s Central Europe, an economic
powerhouse. Scandinavian Europe is a little of both. And Eastern
Europe that’s none of either. And beyond Eastern Europe, is a
Europe-stalking Russia.
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Published June 30, 2015 in the Web
Magazine "ORBUS.be"
Bosnian Myths[1]
Dubravko Lovrenović
 The
continuing disasters in human history are largely conditioned by
man’s excessive capacity and his urge to identify with the tribe,
the nation, the church or a common goal, and to accept a certain
credo uncritically and enthusiastically although the postulates of
this credo are contrary to his ratio and his own interest, and may
even endanger his existence (A. Koestler, “Janus”, Erasmus 9,
Zagreb, 1994).
The Bosnia and Herzegovina war (1992-1995) was
preceded by a conflict which has been taking place on the
“battlefield” of South Slavic historiography for longer than a
century. The historiography war, along with the wider international
circumstances, led to an armed conflict transforming this country
into a Dayton assembly of ethnically homogenized entities and
corridors – the region of a blurred and relative truth, instead of
transforming it into a civil democratic country. The spirits should
have been sharpened before knives. This historiographical “grinding
wheel” for sharpening of nationalistic concepts has never stopped
revolving, indicating that, according to Ina Merdjanova, “national
ideology has remained the central part of the communism culture”, or
negating a frequently repeated opinion that the frenzy for
nationalistic movements and activities in Eastern Europe is a result
of repressed national feelings prevailing during the communist
regime.
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June 1, 2015
Bosnia and Herzegovina:
The final phase of genocide?
Director IFIMES: Bakhtyar Aljaf
Recent
events in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) have once again reminded how
fragile peace and stability remain in this country. Although the
European Union (EU) has announced it would pursue a more active
policy on Bosnia and Herzegovina after the formation of new state
government, other events may prevent the realisation of that
promise. The Ukraine conflict, the situation in the Middle East and
North Africa, an alarming increase in the number of refugees from
Africa and the fact that EU still has to devote much of its
attention to Greece as one of its Member States – all these elements
represent a real threat that the West Balkans will again be pushed
down on the list of priorities of European politics.
The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina has culminated after latest
actions taken by the Ministry of the Interior of Republika
Srpska(MUP RS) to apprehend the members of marginalised Bosniak
ethnic minority living in the territory of Republika Srpska (RS), an
entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Those are the citizens who had
been expelled from their homes during the 1992-1995 war in BH. This
operation has been long prepared and represents the continuity of
activities of RS authorities led by President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik. Almost 2000 attacks have been carried out and
recorded against non-Serb returnees and their property in the
territory of RS since the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement,
without the offenders having been sanctioned.
Ljubljana, 15 May 2015
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May 15, 2015
Geopolitics -
Europe of Sarajevo 100 years later by Anis
Bajrektarević
 For his previous book Geopolitics of Technology – Is There
Life after Facebook, published by the New York’s Addleton,
former Austrian Foreign Minister Peter Jankowitsch has said: “Insightful,
compelling and original, this book is an exciting journey through
the rocky field of geopolitics. It is also a big-thinking
exploration of the least researched aspects of the discipline, which
will leave no one indifferent. This book, written by an experienced
lawyer and a former career diplomat, cleverly questions how we see
the world, and acts as an eye opener.”
Anis H. Bajrektarević, professor and
chairperson for international law and global political studies, Uni-
versity IMC-Krems, Austria. This native Sarajevan, besides this very
title, authors the book FB – Geo- politics of Technology (Addleton,
New York 2013), and the forthcoming No Asian century. He is both
teaching and research professor on subjects such as the Geopolitics;
International and EU Law; Sustainable Development (institutions and
instruments). On the subject Geopolitical Affairs alone, professor
has over 1,000 teaching hours at his university as well as in many
countries on all meridians. His writings are frequently published in
over 50 countries in all five continents, and translated in some 20
languages worldwide. He lives in Vienna, Austria.
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BOSANSKA VERZIJA UDARITE OVDJE
May 11, 2015
Promocija
knjige prof. dr. Anisa Bajraktarevića
13.05.2015. (utorak) u 19
sati u Umjetničkoj galeriji BiH, Zelenih beretki 8,
Sarajevo, BiH

Media-clip: At the
occasion of a book launch
07.05.2015.
Berlin Congress of 1878
still in force in the Balkans
Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarević
Aegean theatre of the Antique Greece was the place of
astonishing revelations and intellectual excellence – a remarkable
density and proximity, not surpassed up to our age. All we know
about science, philosophy, sports, arts, culture and entertainment,
stars and earth has been postulated, explored and examined then and
there. Simply, it was a time and place of triumph of human
consciousness, pure reasoning and sparkling thought.
However,
neither Euclid, Anaximander, Heraclites, Hippocrates (both of Chios,
and of Cos), Socrates, Archimedes, Ptolemy, Democritus, Plato,
Pythagoras, Diogenes, Aristotle, Empedocles, Conon, Eratosthenes nor
any of dozens of other brilliant ancient Greek minds did ever refer
by a word, by a single sentence to something which was their
everyday life, something they saw literally on every corner along
their entire lives.
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April 26, 2015
Can we trust the government to do the
right thing?
Belmir Selimovic
 Can
we trust the government to do the right thing, are they really care
about essential things such as environmental conditions and
education in our life?
First issue here is, should businesses naturally be doing good? In
the case if they have more industry agency, answer would be yes.
However, when it comes to this case, we can't trust the government
because the drilling is taking place with minimal oversight from the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Of course I would like to
emphasize that fracking is process of drilling and injecting fluid
into the ground at a high pressure in order to fracture shale rocks
to release natural gas inside. For example, Mr. Wasner lives in
Milanville but he moved away for six weeks last year while an
exploratory well was drilled nearby.
˝The noise, muddy water pouring from his taps, and chemicals that
turned up in a neighbor's well drove him off.˝ The U.S
Environmental Protection Agency did not do anything when it comes to
this problem.
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April 25, 2015
Is it time for the rise of
local currencies?
Prof. dr. Murray Hunter
 It's
an almost long forgotten historical fact that most trade was
undertaken by local based currencies right into the 20th Century.
Australia had a number of colonial currencies before federation in
1901. The United States of America had a number of currencies issued
by private banks before the Federal Reserve Bank was formed in 1913,
and individual states of the European Union had their own national
currencies before the mega-currency, the Euro was launched in 1999.
However given the trend to larger and "stronger"
currencies, the hype of the Euro, the protection of the US Dollar as
the major trading currency, a very quiet trend has been going the
other way. In contrast, more than 2,000 local currencies in some
form or the other have been launched in communities around the
world.
The phenomenon of the local currency almost doesn't
exist in contemporary economic literature. Therefore the purpose of
this article is to have a look at local currencies, and try and
answer the questions; Why do communities launch them? Do local
currencies have any benefit to these communities?, and What
is the real potential of these currencies?
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April 14, 2015
Eastern Europe –
The World’s Last Underachiever
Prof. Anis H.
Bajrektarević
 25 years ago, the Russian historical empire melted
down. Although often underreported, this also marked the end of
alternative society in Europe. Collapse of the II world, made the 3rd
way (of Yugoslavia and further, beyond Europe – globally, of the
Nonaligned Movement) obsolete.
That 9/11 was a moment when the
end of history
rested upon all of us, the day when the world became flat.
The EU entered East, but only as a ‘stalking horse’ of NATO. No
surprise that Eastern Europe –following the slaughter of its pivot,
Yugoslavia – has soon after abandoned its identity quest, and
capitulated. Its final civilizational defeat came along: the Eastern
Europe’s peoples, primarily Slavs, have silently handed over their
most important debates – that of Slavism, anti-fascism and of own
identity – solely to the recuperating Russophone Europe.
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Vienna, March 26, 2015
Yemenisation or Confederalisation of Saudi Arabia?
By Brian Whitaker
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March 27, 2015
Bosnia as Wunderkind –
Corruption from Kosovo to Germany
Gerald Knaus
Ugly ducklings,
fairy tales and Bosnia in 2015
ESI newsletter 3/2015 - If corruption is
serious business, its assessment should be as well.
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March
19, 2015
Imperative
of an EU-Russia strategic reset
Eirini Patsea
 Russia vs. the European Union. It is relationship
based and built upon a long history of protracted political
conflict. Lately, with the crisis in Ukraine and the subsequent
sanctions imposed to Russia, the diplomatic relations between the
two sides have reached a new historical low. But more importantly,
the mistrust among the peoples residing in both sides has reached a
new high. Unavoidably so. Since the Western and Russian media
started to be viciously launching campaign-like news reports, there
is nothing but confusion and loss of perspective by both the peoples
and their representatives. The big question is whether this would be
the case if the US politics were not involved in the game. Would
still Russia and the EU have so many excuses to be driven apart;
politically, culturally and ideologically?
After the warmhearted welcome by Peter Haider, UPF
Austria President, Prof. Bajrektarevic made more than a challenging
opening:
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March 3, 2015
All European shades
of ISIL colour black: Neonazism of Europe and Fascism in the Arab
World
By Allan Bogle
How did Europe manage to drag Arabs to the wrong side
of history – a confusion, pride, shame and denial – all which
resurfaces again, 75 years after. How is this possible that the
‘never-again’ takes place today? Do we fake our surprise? How
expensive is our European denial, and Monarchist Arabs claim of
innocence?
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March 4, 2015
Greed is good…but
only for cancer
Amna Whiston
Amna Whiston is a London-based writer specialising in moral
philosophy. As a PhD candidate at Reading University, UK, her main
research interests are in ethics, rationality, and moral psychology.
Don’t be bad with 1%, don’t accuse them for having it all
and doing nothing to earn it. 99% firmly believes that a greed is
good… Spoiling mood, but being good for your food, as it should?
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Amidst the many maladies of today’s global
society, a tide of optimism brought by the latest cancer research
news reflects a defiant response to one of the biggest challenges
facing humanity. But although massive investments that involve
venture capital companies and funds may be necessary for the pursuit
of current and future large-scale scientific projects and ambitions,
it is still sensible to ask the following questions: To what extent
should capitalism be credited for rapid progress in cancer research
and treatment? Moreover, can the profit motive, being an essential
feature of capitalism, justify future investments in bioscience and
related fields?
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14.02.2015
70 years after
Auschwitz – deliberate attempts to rewrite history
MD Editorial Board
The
last week’s Auschwitz ceremony marking 70 years since the notorious
death camp’s liberation had a huge turnout. Three hundred survivors
of the camp attended. Given the age of Holocaust survivors, the
importance of passing their story on to new generations has never
been greater. Comparing politicians to Hitler or countries to nazi
Germany has become a commonplace insult. But the unspeakable horrors
unleashed by history’s most vicious regime bear no comparison.
The Holocaust marked a systematic effort to exterminate entire
ethnic groups — most prominently the Jews but also the Roma and
Sinti — alongside the slaughter of homosexuals and the disabled.
Millions of prisoners of war from the Soviet Union, Polish civilians
and political and religious opponents of the nazis including
communists, trade unionists, Freemasons and Jehovah’s Witnesses were
also exterminated.
The world anti-fascist war which defeated the nazis resulted in
efforts to ensure such atrocities would never happen again. But the
collapse of the Soviet Union — which played by far the greatest part
in defeating the fascist menace, as well as being the liberator of
Auschwitz — has seen a deliberate attempt to rewrite history.
The European Parliament sponsors a Day of Remembrance for Victims of
Stalinism and Nazism, a pernicious attempt to equate communism with
fascism. As Russian communist Il Melnikov said yesterday, virulently
anti-Russian regimes in the Baltic states openly celebrate Waffen SS
veterans.
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11.02.2015
Géométrie variable
of a love triangle – India, Russia and the US
Written by the MD’s Board Member Rakesh Krishnan Simha
The Modi-Obama romance
won’t last as India’s relationship with the US does not have the
kind of strategic dimension and weight that marks New Delhi’s ties
with Moscow.
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Russia
is a country with which India has had a strategic relationship for
decades. America is a place where Indians migrate to for a better
lifestyle. That is how Indians view the world’s two leading powers.
It’s as simple as that. US President Barrack Obama’s recent visit to
India will not change that reality, and those speculating about
dramatic changes in India's foreign policy are either fools or
amateurs – or both.
“Good relations with the US reflect aspiration, ties with Russia are
hard reality,” says Bharat Karnad, professor of national security
studies at the Centre for Policy Research. “No substantive shift in
policy is on the anvil, certainly nothing at the expense of India's
relations with Moscow, especially because, unlike the US, Russia has
partnered, and continues to partner, India in strategically
sensitive technology projects ranging from missiles, ship
submersibles, ballistic, nuclear submarines to the Fifth Generation
Fighter Aircraft,” he told Defense News.
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11.02.2015
Europe of the human
face… with a little help from Greece
by Dimitra Karantzeni
Days
after the last parliamentary elections, something is eventually
moving in Greece. People are hesitant and restrained, do not want to
get too excited. However, one can see that a humble smile, between
hope and faith, is on faces of Greeks. For the first time in the
post-dictatorship period, a leftist government took over the
leadership of the country, insisting on its pre-election commitments
to overthrow the corrupt political system and reverse the economic
disaster.
During the pre-election campaign, voters were bombarded with
terrifying messages concerning the day after Syriza’s victory,
describing more or less a socio-economic chaos, with banks with no
liquidity, a paralyzed public sector and markets out of stock.
However, the overall propaganda of terror and intimidation of
citizens by the predominant political Parties not only failed to
limit the social impact of SYRIZA’s actions, but it also seems that
the will of determination of the new government somehow managed to
positively affect the rest of Europe.
The negotiation process is still ongoing but what Syriza has
achieved so far is that its well prepared anti-austerity plan today
gives the impression not of just a grand-standing utopic program but
of a specific project built on realistic bases.
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11.02.2015
Bosnia and
Herzegovina:
German-British initiative overshadowed by
party political games
JOINT ACTION BY SNSD AND SBB
 A delay in setting up the government in Bosnia and Herzegovina
following the general election that took place on 12 October 2014 is
mostly the result of obstructions caused by Milorad Dodik's Alliance
of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) from Republika Srpska (RS)
and Fahrudin Radončić's Union for a Better Future (SBB)
and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) from the Federation of Bosnia
and Herzegovina (FBiH). While SNSD is aguishly trying to enter the
government at the state level, SBB – being excluded from the
post-election coalition forming – is concocting plans to get hold of
power, even using its Avaz daily newspaper to create a negative
political atmosphere in Bosnia and Herzegovina, inciting riot among
the citizens and preparing last year's February protests scenario.
Clearly SNSD and SBB are making a joint action - their delegates
carried out a joint attempt to overthrow the President of the House
of Representatives of the
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January 31, 2015
On history and humility: What students need to know ?
Rattana Lao
Rattana
Lao holds a doctorate in Comparative and International Education
from Teachers College, Columbia University and is currently teaching
in Bangkok.
BANGKOK – Not so long ago, some Thai university students used
Hitler image as the poster child for superhero and just recently,
the Thai state used Nazi symbol in their propaganda for education.
This short documentary intends to promote the 12 values of
education. These values include respect seniority, desire for
knowledge and understand democracy.
Democracy and Hitler?
To make things worse, the director of the film gave public interview
seeing nothing wrong with it.
Kulp Kaljaruek, the director, said to Khaosod, one of the Thai
newspapers that “ I didn't think it would be an issue. As for
Hitler's portrait, I have seen so many people using it on T-Shirts
everywhere. It's even considered a fashion. It doesn't mean I agree
with it, but I didn't expect it to be an issue at all."
Seriously?
The Ambassador of Israel to Thailand, His Excellency Simon Roded,
issued a public statement on the 10th
of December 2014. It read:
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January 24, 2015.
GLOBAL MARKETS OF MISERY
Marján Attila[1]
– Szuhai Ilona[2]
Is our
The global humanitarian system in
transition? If so, what are the key issues b – Before the 2016 World
Humanitarian Summit
"Today's needs are at unprecedented levels and without more support there simply
is no way to respond to the humanitarian situations we're seeing in region after
region and in conflict after conflict."
António Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Abstract
The international community is preparing for the World
Humanitarian Summit. The United Nations will host the event in Istanbul, in
2016. Before the meeting, regional consultations are held in several parts of
the world. Expectations are high since the historical moment of changing the
twenty-five-year-old humanitarian system is approaching. Growing conflicts
demand growing funds for humanitarian action. The change in the trends of
conflicts demands more effective humanitarian solutions. 2014 was a dramatic
year in the number of people affected by conflict and of being forced to flee.
Unprecedentedly, more than 100 million people became dependent on humanitarian
aid for their survival. This rise is reflected in the inter-agency strategic
response and regional response plans as global financial requirements to cover
humanitarian needs rose to the highest amount ever requested in a single year.
The study forecasts how the EU can continue the donor activities in the future.
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January 24, 2015.
Human rights violations inside EU
What is the Ostrich Protocol?
H.E. Dr. Walter Schwimmer

How the EU member states play ostrich when it comes to
human rights violations inside EU?
H.E. Dr. Walter Schwimmer - Vice Chair of the Modern
Diplomacy Advisory Board, Former Secretary General of the Council of
Europe -
Chairman of the International Coordinating Committee of the World
Public Forum – Dialogue of Civilizations
The
Treaty on the European Union, in its current format also known as
the Lisbon Treaty, as well as the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
claim to establish an area of freedom, security and justice, founded
on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy,
equality, the rule of law and the respect for human rights[1].
That sounds perfect. After centuries of inhuman treatment of people
very often by their own governments, culminating in the tyrannies of
communism and Nazism in the 20th century, EU citizens should be able
to feel safe from brutal attacks and illegal operations of a violent
state, if not ....If they are not refugees from another EU member
state and they do not try to look for protection because they were
subject in their own state to political persecution, inhuman
treatment or even torture.
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January 19, 2015
FUTURE OF DAVOS IS IN
KYRGYZSTAN
Francesco Brunello
Zanitti
 Francesco Brunello Zanitti,
Southern Asia Research Program’s Director, and one of the Scientific
Directors of the Italian Institute for Advanced Studies in
Geopolitics and Auxiliary Sciences (Istituto di Alti Studi in
Geopolitica e Scienze Ausiliarie – IsAG, Rome). Member of Editorial
Committee of “Geopolitica” (IsAG’s journal) Rome.
Is the new Russian
approach towards China and India, vector for a multipolar world
order? Will the new Davos – gathering between vanity fair and summit
of the mightiest – in future take place in Kyrgyzstan – Central
Asian country surrounded by the most prosperous and promising
powers?
The last months of 2014
were marked by a series of significant bilateral agreements and
summits involving Russia, India and China. According to many
international analysts, the research of better relations with the
two Asian giants by Moscow represents another further step towards
global transformation from an unipolar order ruled by United States
to a multipolar one.
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January 14, 2015
The Paris Killings: Who
Are the Real Heroes of Press Freedom?
By
Jamil Maidan Flores
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By
Jamil Maidan Flores |
Placards are seen placed amongst other tributes to the satirical
magazine Charlie Hebdo on the statues at the Place de la Republique
in Paris on Saturday. (Reuters Photo/Youssef Boudlal)
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January 12, 2015
Denazification – urgently
needed in Europe
Anis H. Bajrektarevic,
 There
is a claim constantly circulating the EU: ‘multiculturalism is
dead in Europe’. Dead or maybe d(r)ead?... That much comes from
a cluster of European nation-states that love to romanticize their
appearance thought the solid Union, as if they themselves lived a
long, cordial and credible history of multiculturalism. Hence, this
claim is of course false. It is also cynical because it is purposely
misleading. No wonder, as the conglomerate of nation-states/EU has
silently handed over one of its most important debates – that of
European anti-fascistic identity, or otherness – to the
wing-parties, repeatedly followed by the selective and
contra-productive foreign policy actions.
The Paris shooting, terrible beyond comprehension,
will reload and overheat those debates. However, these debates are
ill conceived, resting from the start on completely wrong and
misleading premises. Assassins in the Parisian Satirical Magazine
are Islamofascists. The fact that these individuals are
allegedly of the Arab-Muslim origins does not make them less
fascists, less European, nor does it abolish Europe from the main
responsibility in this case.
Fascism and its evil twin, Nazism are 100% European
ideologies. Neo-Nazism also originates from and lately unchecked
blossoms, primarily in Europe. (Some would say, über-economy
in the center of continent, surrounded from all sides by the
recuperating neo-fascism.) The Old continent tried to amortize its
deepening economic and demographic contraction by a constant
interference on its peripheries, especially meddling on the Balkans,
Black Sea/Caucasus and MENA (Middle East–North Africa). What is now
an epilogue? A severe democratic recession. Whom to blame for
this structural, lasting civilizational retreat that Europe suffers?
Is it accurate or only convenient to blame a bench of useful idiots
for returning home with the combating behavior?
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January 8, 2015
PUBLICATIONS: 2016
Noah, Peter Pan and the Sleeping Beauty (Europe – Identity
Imagined) - Anis H. Bajrektarevic
Key to Stop Refugee Flows: Unique higher education programme for
Conflict zones - Prof. Dr. DJAWED SANGDEL
Quantum Islam: Towards a new worldview - Murray Hunter and Azly
Rahman
Currency dictatorship – the struggle to end it - by Rakesh
Krishan Simha
Creative Economy and the bases of UNCTAD’s Creative Economy
Programme as instrument for growth and development - by
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Critical Similarities and Differences in SS of Asia and Europe - Prof.
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MENA Saga and Lady Gaga - (Same dilemma from the MENA) - Anis H. Bajrektarevic

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Nguyen Linh[2]


Carla BAUMER
Climate
Change and Re Insurance: The Human Security Issue SC-SEA Prof. Anis
Bajrektarevic & Carla Baumer

Igor Dirgantara
(Researcher and Lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Politics,
University of Jayabaya)


Peny Sotiropoulou
Is the ‘crisis of secularism’ in Western Europe the result of
multiculturalism?


Dr. Emanuel L. Paparella
A Modest “Australian”
Proposal to Resolve our Geo-Political Problems
Were the Crusades Justified? A Revisiting - Dr. Emanuel L. Paparella


Alisa Fazleeva earned an MA in International Relations from
the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom in 2013. Her
research interests include foreign policy decision-making, realism and
constructivism, and social psychology and constructivism.


Corinna Metz
is an independent researcher specialized in International Politics and Peace
& Conflict Studies with a regional focus on the Balkans and the Middle East.

Patricia
Galves Derolle
Founder of Internacionalista
São Paulo, Brazil
Brazil – New Age


Dimitra Karantzeni
The political character of Social Media: How do Greek Internet users perceive
and use social networks?


Michael Akerib
Vice-Rector
SWISS UMEF UNIVERSITY


Petra Posega
is a master`s
degree student on the University for Criminal justice and
Security in Ljubljana. She obtained her bachelor`s degree in
Political Science- Defense studies.
Contact:
posegap@live.com


Samantha Brletich, George Mason University School of Policy,
Government, and Intl. Relations She focuses on Russia and Central
Asia. Ms. Brletich is an employee of the US Department of Defense.

Interview on HRT-Radio
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