In 1999, in the wake of the Asian financial crisis, the meltdown of the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund spooking the markets and economic crises in Russia and Brazil, the cover of Time magazine featured “The Committee to Save the World”: the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve and the secretary and deputy secretary of the U.S. Treasury. With the cold war over and with what U.S. Secreta...

Abstract If successfully realised, the Belt and Road Initiative will be most ambitious expansive developmental project world has ever seen. It is not, however, unprecedented. In aftermath of Second World War United States developed what was then an equally unprecedented initiative designed to simultaneously facilitate (re)development some world’s key economies reinforce its own position as lead...

The global arms trade should be understood not as a market but as a network, one that shares some important properties with networked forms of organization studied by sociologists. I make this argument and then employ quantitative methods developed for social network analysis in an effort to describe the evolving structure of the arms trade network since the end of World War II. That structure ...

This paper shall explore the reasons that triggered China to boost its security and economic influence within United Nations Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKO) as a tool for embracing international challenges. By doing so, is not just sharing burden of providing stability achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals, but exerting in process. Analysing proposed subject, it will be demonstrated faces ...

The article concerns the intention to group Polish troops on so-called Romanian bridgehead, created during campaign of 1939. author presents geopolitical conditions for strategic concepts, including special importance that diplomatic relations had, common border relevance Poland’s defence.The assumptions and changes operational plan, in which, along with hostilities’ progress, create a defensiv...

BACKGROUND In the 1980s, many medical organizations identified the prevention of nuclear war as one of the medical profession's most important goals. An assessment of the current danger is warranted given the radically changed context of the post-Cold War era. METHODS We reviewed the recent literature on the status of nuclear arsenals and the risk of nuclear war. We then estimated the likely ...

In the context of an emergent multipolar international system, there is consensus regarding decline in US hegemony. The period unipolarity that characterized immediate decade post-cold war transitioning to one whereby repositioning States at regional and global level possible. Russian periphery confrontation scene demonstrates disputes interests between Federation western alliance represented b...

This article proposes Stephen Jay Gould’s concepts of time’s arrow and cycle as a conceptual tool to analyse NATO’s burden-sharing disputes. It argues that the controversies on in NATO can be assessed terms their cyclic or kind nature, rendering some disputes more likely recur than others providing different kinds starting points for forecasting. The study identifies four categories which has t...

Policy literature on the insecurity of cyberspace frequently invokes comparisons to Cold War security strategy, thereby neglecting the fundamental differences between contemporary and Cold War security environments. This article develops an alternative viewpoint, exploring the analogy between cyberspace and another largely ungoverned space: the sea in the age of privateering. This comparison en...