22 Feb
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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21 Oct
Economy

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

Since the beginning of the publication of my articles on this site, followers and readers have been able to notice that I almost regularly touched on this very painful topic of ours, especially in the article "war of ideologies or towards a healthy and contemporary concept of development" from March this year. If the somewhat troubled and war-time of the 90s was in some way a justification for all our economic wanders and stumbles, and transitional in the first two decades of this century deeply delimited by a neoliberal concept that had to be strictly applied; what about our current economic thinking, when, in an Interreg of a kind of World realignment, we witness the breaking of leading economic concepts and the birth of several new ones at the same time? Is it possible that our economic thought still remains a difficult prisoner of the deeply fallen Western neoliberal concept, where, apart from the honorable exceptions of Jovan Dušanić, Nebojša Katić and some of our economists, almost no one must complain about some new economic idea, and especially the desperately needed new concept of our development? Does not every intellectual, in this case an economist, who washes his hands from economics, even politics, that is, from the most important issues of his society, people and state, in fact renounce his own intellectual identity, but also his civil identity, by understanding these key issues alien to others? - as paraphrased by one of our authors.

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04 Apr
Geopolitics and politics

Економски експерт Центра за геостратешке студије: Рат и идеологија или ка здравом и савременом концепту развоја

Свеукупни досадашњи светски друштвено-историјски развој нам је показао неколико закономерности, без обзира на све неравномерности и турбуленције којима је био праћен. Још на студијама су нас, без обзира на још увек ровито пост-титовско стање, учили да је једини прави пут друштвено-историјског развоја еволуција, а не револуција, са свим својим проблемима и нелогичностима које неминовно носи са собом. Залуђенички сам се затим дуго, у својој магистарској тези, бавио другом закономерношћу, односно немогућношћу и нереалношћу прескакања фаза друштвеног развоја (робовласништво, феудализам, капитализам, социјализам), а које, по правилу доносе неминовни реверзибилан процес, односно повратак на ранију фазу. Базирао сам се на, тада врло популарним, земљама у развоју, мада се касније ова закономерност потврдила, не само код нас, већ и код развијених, у том периоду, социјалистичких земаља. Паралелно са овом тезом био сам преокупиран и врло изазовним процесом конвергенције, односно прожимањем, фазом друштвено-историјског развоја, која се касније показала као још једна од важних законитости овог процеса. Са сетом смо, наравно ми старији, тих осамдесетих и деведесетих година прошлог века могли да пропратимо тужни крах тадашњег социјализма, који се највише огледао на економском пољу, те блиставу победу западног капитализма, па смо се питали где смо то погрешили, упорно следећи Маркса.

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