Balance is a key word in international politics, a fetish word for architects of international security, a panacea on duty for the ills of coexistence between nations. The relations of power in the international arena…
Today’s post ends the story, spread over several episodes, about the foreign policy doctrines of the countries of the Soviet bloc. The end of the block is commonly associated with the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev’s…
The doctrine of intervention under the red flag was originally formulated in an article by Sergey Kovalev published in Pravda in September 1968 under the title “Sovereignty and international obligations of socialist states.” In the canonical…
Continuing the historical excursion into the past, today I will describe the military-political dimension of the so-called class solidarity, i.e. the functioning of the camp of socialist states as a military bloc. The Warsaw Pact…
“Mutual assistance” was the notion used to define the essence of economic relations between the states of the socialist family. It is hard to find a more solidarity-based term, despite the fact that the disproportions in…
