Russia unleashed the war against Ukraine under the slogans of, inter alia, neutralization and demilitarization of the country. Ukraine would itself commit itself not to joining NATO and not having significant military infrastructure. Regardless of…
During the vote on March 2, 2022 on the UN General Assembly resolution condemning the invasion of Ukraine, 35 countries abstained from voting, including China, which is not surprising because they are politically close to…
I mentioned a week ago that after World War II, the Yalta division of Europe gave a new context to the doctrine of neutrality. Neutrality was part of the (flank) buffer between both blocks. The…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
