Surprisingly, sexuality has not been at the centre of scholarship on post-war Central and Eastern Europe. While neighbouring topics, such as gender or everyday life, have thoroughly wonderfully researched (the list here is too long, but let me mention least some shining examples), somehow escaped spotlight. Path-breaking research done by Dagmar Herzog East Germany Dan Healey Soviet Russia was f...

putin’s policies have had significant impact on russian foreign policy after the cold war. despite the fact that putin sought for increasing russia’s power to the same level as the cold war, however; he was aware that the nature of the international system has undergone serious changes. therefore, some specific factors including close collaboration with the united states, an energy-oriented for...

Abstract Towards the end of Cold War, vocabulary global power, space and economy received a qualitative update. Amongst terms rapidly gaining prominence since early 1990s has been notion geoeconomics, coining which frequently attributed to strategist Edward N. Luttwak. In his interpretation, it signified transition away from War ideological military geopolitical competition towards commerce mar...

The two states that emerged from the defeated Germany were central to the development of the cold war. Rapidly evolving from defeated objects of Four Power policy, the two Germanys became important actors in their own right on the front line of the cold war. Both superpowers initially treated their part of Germany as war booty to be plundered and kept weak, but as the cold war developed, they w...

During the cold war, there had been deepened geopolitical tensions between Russia and West—tension Soviet Union United States their respective allies, which resulted in decline of Socialist Republics (USSR) creating a unipolar world. The USSR was believed to be disintegration Russia. Since then, come defensive mode but since 2000s it looking for an opportunity diplomatic way got that when West ...

The relationship with the United States has been a key aspect of Turkey’s foreign and security policy since 1945. Despite fears on both sides that this “strategic relationship” would become less strategic and less important with the end of the Cold War, the relationship has retained its significance for both countries. Indeed, the relationship has arguably acquired even greater significance in ...

T he view that multiparty elections in changing authoritarian regimes should be held sooner rather than later has been increasingly under attack. Critics argue that, under conditions of low institutional development, multiparty elections may lead to violence and civil war, rather than to the peaceful allocation of authority that everyone desires. Starting from the premise that elections are str...