Geopolitics and politics

Vladimir Sotirovic: why should Russia be respected in international relations or has the West "finished" with Russia?

Reborn Russia

After the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, Russia and Russian studies including Russian language, culture and history became for a long time not very popular fields of study as well as occupations in the West compared to the Cold War (1949).−1989. G). The reason for this trend was the deep belief in the West that it simply "ended" with Russia as a great power after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of both the USSR (Soviet Russia) and the Warsaw Pact. However, geopolitical strategists in the West and primarily in NATO and the Pentagon have overlooked one thing: the Soviet Union has disappeared, but not Russia itself, which has been since 2000.- and experienced a constant military-political and economic-financial renaissance after the disastrous years (decade) of Boris Yeltsin's rule and his Euro-Atlantic liberals. It was believed after 1991.- Mr. that Russia's influence in world politics and international relations has been definitively eliminated and, therefore, Western universities have abolished chairs, programs and Centers for the study of Russian culture, language and history as practically unnecessary in the geopolitical sense.      

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Economy

Economic expert of the Center for geostrategic studies: where has our modern economic thought gone?

Од почетка објављивања мојих текстова на овом сајту, пратиоци и читаоци су могли да примете да сам скоро редовно бар дотицао ову много болну нашу тему, а поготову у тексту „Рат идеологија или ка здравом и савременом концепту развоја“ из марта ове године. Ако су донекле смутна и ратна времена 90 –тих била на неки начин оправдање за сва наша економска лутања и посртања, те транзициона у прве две деценије овог века дубоко омеђена неолибералним концептом који се морао строго примењивати; шта је са нашом садашњом економском мишљу, када, у интеррегнуму својеврсног светског престројавања, присуствујемо ломљењу водећих економских концепата и рађању истовремено неколико нових? Да ли је могуће да наша економска мисао и даље остаје тешки заробљеник дубоко посрнулог западног неолибералног концепта, где, осим часних изузетака Јована Душанића, Небојше Катића и још понеког нашег економисте, скоро нико не сме да се огласи са неком новом економском идејом, а поготово насушно потребним, новим концептом нашег развоја? Зар се сваки интелектуалац, у овом случају економиста, који пере руке од економије, па и политике, односно од најважнијих питања свог друштва, народа и државе, заправо не одриче самог свог интелектуалног, него и грађанског идентитета, схватајући ова кључна питања туђим? - како то у парафразираној форми истиче један од наших аутора.

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Geopolitics and politics

Economic expert of the Center for geostrategic studies: War and ideology or towards a healthy and contemporary concept of development

The overall World socio-historical development so far has shown us several legislatures, regardless of all the imbalances and turbulences that it was accompanied by. Even in our studies, despite the still vibrant post-Tito state, we were taught that the only true path to socio-historical development is evolution, not revolution, with all its problems and illogicities that it inevitably carries with it. Then, for a long time, in my master's thesis, I dealt with the second legality, i.e. the impossibility and unreality of skipping the stages of Social Development (slavery, feudalism, capitalism, socialism), which, as a rule, bring about an inevitable reversible process, i.e. a return to an earlier stage. I was based on, then very popular, developing countries, although later this legality was confirmed, not only in US, but also in developed, at that period, socialist countries. In parallel with this thesis, I was also preoccupied with the very challenging process of convergence, that is, the permeation, the stage of socio-historical development, which later proved to be another of the important legalities of this process. With the set, of course, we, the elderly, in the 1980s and 1990s, were able to follow the sad collapse of socialism at the time, which was most reflected in the economic field, and the glittering victory of Western capitalism, so we wondered where we went wrong, persistently following Marx.

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