In many discussions on global politics of today are two focal points many refering to, one is the beginning of a new cold war to describe the politics of the upcoming decades, the second is the analogie with the beginning of the First World War to point out the danger of an upcoming „hot“ war.… Continue reading Different Times
Category: World Affairs
The Battlefield
The question, which countries are better suited to develope a policy of non-alignation, could give a hint to the answer of this question. What´s obvious in this regard is the deep difference between the situation today and the one during the first Cold War, where many states were in complete dependency of one of the… Continue reading The Battlefield
The New Third World
When delegates from 29 African and Asian states met in Bandung, Indonesia, in 1955 to discuss international cooperation in times of the Cold War that had just begun, they chose the term Third World for themselves. This was to emphasise that these states, which, with the inclusion of many other countries, gathered in 1961 in… Continue reading The New Third World
China and Iran
During the visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Tehran, he and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif signed a document on mutual "comprehensive cooperation". This involves the establishment of a strategic partnership that is to last for an initial period of 25 years. The partnership will cover various areas, with a special focus… Continue reading China and Iran
Vietnamese Letters
As Montesquieu published his Persian Letters in 1721, he caused much excitement. A book in which two persians, Usbek and Rica, are travelling through Europe and writing to their fellows ´bout everything they saw. No mischief was left behind. Their bright observations hit a nerv in french society and Montesquieu, who later formulated the seperation… Continue reading Vietnamese Letters
The new America
The new US-president has signed a great deal of new executive orders, with whom he is able to launch new laws without nedding the congress. Adding to that, he attacked allies of Iran in Syria and exacerbated the rhetoric against Russia and China. Does this sounds familiar to you? The similarity towards the first weeks… Continue reading The new America
Russia to the Russians?
If it´s true that demographie is the fate of the people, Russia is looking for a taff century ahead. With a population of some 145 million people, the state has to manage the by far biggest country on earth. Despide that, during the last century, Russia had to pay a huge price in the currency… Continue reading Russia to the Russians?
The new NATO
High-ranking representatives of the USA and China are currently in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss future relations between the two countries. Will there be a new cold war? Or does it already exist? And if so, what needs to be done to prevent an escalation? While France and Britain have already sent their navies into Pacific… Continue reading The new NATO
Decentralised Currencies
There´s a hell lot of money-talk going on all over the world right now, conserning the aftermaths of the pandemic. And one of these talks will soon be about the standing of the dollar as the global currency. Today, this role is safed by the fact that the international trade on oil is payed in… Continue reading Decentralised Currencies
Four years on hold?
On 26 September 2021, the federal elections are to take place in Germany. After than 1 ½ years in which a pandemic has been the ever-present topic and politics has, more or less, only been concerned with keeping the damage of this catastrophe within acceptable limits. To a certain extent, they were successful in doing… Continue reading Four years on hold?
Simon Dierich 