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Articles from June 2022

  • June 27, 2022June 27, 2022

The doctrine of neutrality, i.e. weakness turned into a virtue

Neutrality is a state of equal distance to partners in its pure form. A lot is written and said about it again, because Sweden and Finland will abandon their neutrality status, and Russia would still…

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  • June 20, 2022June 27, 2022

Multivectorism, or dependence (even if it serves well) has its drawbacks

The balance of ties with partners is a desirable state in foreign policy. It is rarely possible in perfect form. Even the programmatic equal distance as proscribed by the doctrine of neutrality or disengagement, which…

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  • June 13, 2022June 13, 2022

The doctrine of equal distance, i.e. where is Scylla, and where is Charybdis

In the Polish history of diplomacy, the doctrine of equal distance (equilibrium) in an almost canonical form is identified with the politics of the Second Republic of Poland in the 1930s. It was Józef Piłsudski…

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  • June 6, 2022June 6, 2022

Balance in the times of hegemony, or “nec hercules …”

The phraseology of homeostasis was revived in the era of the Cold War in the notion of the strategic balance of the military potentials of the US and the USSR. Catchy terms appeared at that…

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Recent Posts

  • Just for the Record. Entry twenty-four: catharsis
  • Just for the Record. Entry twenty-three: disasters, black swans and the limits of imagination
  • Just for the Record. Entry twenty-two: progress and reaction
  • Just for the Record. Entry twenty-one: centre and peripheries
  • Just for the Record. Entry twentieth: the thymotic revolution in international politics

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