POLITICS-US: The Return of the Return of History

Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Wednesday, September 03, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Daniel Luban WASHINGTON, Sep 3 (IPS) – In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Georgia last month, many commentators have been quick to proclaim that the war signals ”the return of history”. [...]

The miscalculation of small nations

Global Geopolitics Tuesday, August 26, 2008 This article was originally published on opendemocracy.net under a Creative Commons license. Read the article in its original form. Fred Halliday The Russia-Georgia war highlights the need for a nuanced understanding of international politics that recognises the autonomy of local agents, says Fred Halliday 24 – 08 – 2008 [...]

Al-Qaeda and the Question of State Sponsorship

Republished on Global Geopoltics Viewpoints August 24, 2008 By Alan F. Fogelquist, Ph. D. International Monitor Institute Completed August 29, 2002 © Copyright 2002 Alan F. Fogelquist, Ph. D. Introduction Shortly after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush declared an open-ended “war on terrorism”. Within a few [...]

RUSSIA, BOSNIA, AND THE NEAR ABROAD

This article is being republished on Global Geopolitics Viewpoints because of its historical interest and relevance to recent events in Georgia. Eurasia Research Center 1998 © Copyright 1995 Alan F. Fogelquist, Ph. D. By Alan F. Fogelquist Post Doctoral Scholar History Department University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Paper Presented April 19, 1995 at [...]

REVIEW OF SOME LITERATURE ON POST-COMMUNIST – POST-SOVIET ECONOMIC "REFORMS"

REVIEW OF SOME LITERATURE ON POST-COMMUNIST – POST-SOVIET ECONOMIC “REFORMS” AND THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES Republished on Global Geopolitics Viewpoints August 22, 2008 By Alan F. Fogelquist, Ph. D. EurasiaNews Analyst – December 4, 1998 (c) Copyright Alan F. Fogelquist – Eurasia Research Center, 1998 Here I present a quick review of some literature [...]