The Islamic radical moderates in the Middle East All Islamic movements, parties, or groups fighting for the creation of the Islamic states governed by the Muslim authorities can be divided into two categories: 1) Those who are seeking their goals using peaceful means; and 2) Those devoted to the use […]
Author: Vladislav B. SOTIROVIC
The 1918 Geneva Conference And The Proclamation Of The Kingdom Of Serbs, Croats, And Slovenes (III)
Part I, Part II The 1918 Belgrade Proclamation of a single Yugoslav state Officially, the South Slavs (i.e., the Yugoslavs) were united into their own national single state on December 1st, 1918, when the Regent Aleksandar I Karađorđević of Serbia read the Proclamation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and […]
The Relations Between War And Politics (VI)
Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V Does in practice humanitarian military intervention work? Regarding any kind of humanitarian military intervention (HMI) within the moral and legal framework of the R2P, the focal question became do the benefits of humanitarian military intervention outweigh its costs or to […]
The 1937 Memorandum On The “Albanian Question” In Yugoslavia (II)
Part I The 1937 Memorandum – measures to protect Yugoslavia The Memorandum’s author as a professional historian quite clearly understood that the only way and the only means to cope with them in order to protect Yugoslavia from Albanian separatism, terrorism, and Albanization was to use the legitimate force by […]
Soft Power In Politics And Diplomacy (III)
Part I, Part II Soft power and multilateral international institutions If we are taking into consideration the relations between IR and diplomacy, founded on the contractual relations between the states, it can be argued that soft power in this case mostly depends on the ability of the state authorities to […]
The Relations Between War And Politics (V)
Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV War and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) The R2P is one of the most important features of the post-Cold War global politics and IR regarding the relations of the war with politics that was formalized in 2005, which is focusing when the […]
The 1918 Geneva Conference And The Proclamation Of The Kingdom Of Serbs, Croats, And Slovenes (II)
Part I The political consequences of the 1918 Geneva Conference The London Yugoslav Committee became pushed aside with Geneva negotiations in November 1918 and, in fact, became replaced by the National Council in Zagreb as a representative political organization of the South Slavic population in Austria–Hungary.[i] A political role of […]
The 1937 Memorandum On The “Albanian Question” In Yugoslavia (I)
In 1937 a Memorandum to the Royal Yugoslav Government was presented by Vaso Chubrilovic on solving the “Albanian Question” in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. A Bosnian Serb Vaso Chubrilovic (1897−1990) was a historian, teacher, university professor, minister, a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and politician. In […]
The Relations Between War And Politics (IV)
Part I, Part II, Part III Just war and Just war theory One of the most disputed topics with regard to the concept of war is an idea of Just war – a war held to be founded on the principles of justice in principle caused and conducted in the […]
Soft Power In Politics And Diplomacy (II)
Part I The factors of soft power’s influence It has been already two last decades recognized worldwide that soft power is an extremely significant instrument in both politics and diplomacy in the hands of many states but especially those whom we can call as great powers as they are the […]
The Relations Between War And Politics (III)
Part I, Part II War, national interest, and the League of Nations In broad terms, the national interest refers to the goals of foreign politics, objectives, or policy preferences that benefit a nation or society as a whole. That is the foreign policy equivalent of the public interest. However, the […]
Soft Power In Politics And Diplomacy (I)
French Emperor Napoleon I, was convinced that only two powers existed in the world: the sword and the mind. Sword can prevail over the mind in a short time but in the long run, he believed that the mind would beat the sword. As the mind is mightier than the […]
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