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Articles from October 2022

  • October 31, 2022October 31, 2022

Satelliteism, or relying on the good grace of the hegemon

We continue to review doctrines, the essence of which is submissive response to the behaviour of more powerful partners. Today about satelliteism, which also made its mark in the history of Polish foreign policy. Satelliteism…

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  • October 24, 2022October 24, 2022

Bandwagoning, or the art of betting on the right horse

Bandwagoning is a term coined by the eminent American political scientist Quincy Wright in the early 1940s and popularized by Kenneth Waltz in his “Theory of International Relations”. It denotes a phenomenon of domestic politics,…

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  • October 17, 2022October 19, 2022

Offense retaliated: the Turkish case

Russia’s defeat in Ukraine, its political, military and economic prostration would create an opportunity for a fundamental reconstruction of geopolitical parameters in the post-Soviet space, including in the South Caucasus. For this to happen, it…

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  • October 10, 2022October 18, 2022

The American boycott of Cuba, i.e. geopolitics underpinned by domestic politics

Today, we continue the review of foreign policy doctrines which consist in responding to the behaviour of other countries through the use of restrictive measures. The American boycott of Cuba is a good example of…

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  • October 3, 2022October 3, 2022

Doctrines Of Ostracism And Boycott: the Arab Boycott Of Israel

In 2004, as director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I went on a consultation tour in the Middle East. I was supposed to fly from Syria to Israel,…

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  • 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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