Articles by Vladislav B. Sotirović
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The World of Arabs
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
25 Oct 2024 – The world of Arabs, as a distinctive part of the globe, is of extreme significance for both global politics and the global economy. On the other hand, this region is featured by slow democratic development, political instability, religious extremism (Islamic fundamentalism)…
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The Geopolitics of Southeast Europe and the Importance of the Regional Geostrategic Position at the Turn of the 20th Century
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – A geopolitical issue of Southeast Europe became very important for scholars, policymakers, and researchers with the question of the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire as one of the most crucial features of the beginning of the 20th century in European history.
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Kievan Russia (882−1242): The Original National State of Russians
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – In the years from 882 to 1242 the first and original national state organization of the Russians – the Kievan Russia (not Kyivan Rusia or Kyiv Rus’!) became directly and indirectly subject to external political influences.
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What is Power in Global Politics and International Relations?
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
Power is the ability to make people, states, movements, organizations, or things do what they would not otherwise have done. It is a matter of fact that politics is seen to be about might rather than right.
→ read full articleColonial Empires by European Powers from the Vienna Congress to WWI (1815−1914)
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
11 Sep 2024 – The period from the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) to the Great War (1914) is labeled as the “golden age” of the European imperialistic expansion and the making of the greater national states and overseas colonial empires in Africa and Asia.
→ read full articleGeopolitics of Natural Resources and the Ukrainian Conflict
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
28 Aug 2024 – Geopolitics is an approach to politics that stresses the features imposed on foreign policy by geographical location, environment, and natural resources. As a discipline, it contributes to the emphasis on continuity in contemporary political realism.
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China’s Soft Power
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024 – It is of extreme importance to understand the concept and motivation of soft power by China – the most rising emerging market power today and already the first export nation with the second-largest economy in the world.
→ read full articleThe System of Elections and Political Parties in the USA
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
1 Jul 2024 – In the USA, elections are organized on a regular basis for President, Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate), and state and local government offices. In practice, …
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Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
23 Jun 2024 – At least from the very academic viewpoint, war is a condition of armed conflict between at least two sides (but, in fact, states). Historically, there are several types of warfare:
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The 1823 Monroe Doctrine and Its First Consequence for Global Politics: Making the U.S. a Global Empire
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
The focal slogan of the Monroe Doctrine – “America to Americans” inspired U.S. colonial imperialism and became “Americas to the U.S.A.”. President Monroe promulgated his doctrine as an opportunity for the special geopolitical role of Washington in the Americas from Alaska to Patagonia.
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Latin America: From the Struggle for Independence (1808) to the Great War (1914)
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
3 Jun 2024 – From the political point of view, the 19th century in Latin America started in 1808 when the emancipation of its peoples from foreign (Spanish & Portuguese) rule started (and finished in 1826), and was over with the beginning of the Great War in Europe, 1914.
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A Short Overview of the 2014 Crimean Crisis
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
28 May 2024 – The international crisis over the Crimean Peninsula was in Feb-Mar 2014 when the peninsula returned to Russia from Ukraine. The Western Russophobic narrative immediately accused Russia of illegitimate annexation along with the eastern Donbass region of Ukraine.
→ read full articleThe First Palestinian Intifada against the State of Israel (1987−1993) and Its Political Consequences
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
From the History of Israeli−Palestinian Conflict
→ read full articleWhat Is Critical Global Geopolitics?
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
9 May 2024 – For overwhelming Western political analysts, journalists, scientists, etc., the disappearance of the USSR in 1990/91 was symbolized overdramatically by the physical destruction of the Berlin Wall… This geopolitical change called for a new world order in international relations
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Asymmetric Warfare
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
Asymmetric warfare exists when two sides of combat forces (two states, two blocs, a state vs. one military bloc, etc.) are very or even extremely different regarding their military and other capacities to fight each other.
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Basic Points about the Zionist Israeli-Arab Palestinian Conflict
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
28 Apr 2024 – The Zionist Israeli-Arab Palestinian conflict is historically not much old as it is a pretty modern issue, dating, in fact, since the First Zionist Congress in 1897. The focal question is: What is conflict about? In other words: What are those two different groups fighting for?
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Citizenship: Concept and Consequences
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
In principle, social science is concerned with the concept of citizenship mainly as an “imagined construction” that is applied in social life. According to a short definition and understanding of citizenship, it is juridical status, granting a sum of rights and duties to members of a specific political entity (state).
→ read full article“Land of Israel” and Palestine: The First Phase of the Creation of Der Judenstaat
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
14 Apr 2024 – The historical background of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict goes back to 1917 (the Balfour Declaration) and the establishment of the British protectorate over Palestine (the Palestine Mandate) after WWI with its provision for a national home for the Jews, although formally not to be at the expense of the local inhabitants – the Palestinians.
→ read full articleTwenty Years Commemoration of the “March Pogrom” in Kosovo
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
8 Apr 2024 – Kosovo was the first time in European history that a terrorist-style and mafia-ruled (quasi)independent state was created by a full diplomatic, political, economic, military, and financial sponsorship by the West under the umbrella of the NATO’s and the EU’s protective administration.
→ read full articleKosovo Independence: Dilemmas on NATO’s Aggression in 1999
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
30 Mar 2024 – Twenty-five years commemoration of NATO’s military intervention against Yugoslavia in Mar−Jun 1999 once again opened the question of the Western foundation for Kosovo’s secession from Serbia and its unilateral proclamation of a quasi-independence in Feb 2008.
→ read full articleThe Question of Alevi Minority in Turkey and Its Religious Identity
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
Up to now, not once expressed by Turkey’s President R. T. Erdoğan a possibility to organize a national referendum on Turkish membership to the European Union (the EU) opened many questions of different nature followed by old and new problems.
→ read full articleHuman Security and Its Dimensions
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
The concept of human security is a controversial approach by a certain group of post-Cold War 1.0 academicians (after 1990) for the purpose of redefining and at the same time making broader the meaning of security in global politics and the studies of international relations.
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The Polish-West Ukrainian Conflict over East Galicia in 1918−1919
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
The Eastern Portion of Europe and the End of WWI
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The Mongol Eurasian Empire 1206−1405: The Greatest Continental State in World’s History
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
History remembers the Mongols as a pastoral nomadic people from Central Asia who made a significant impression on the world’s history. In essence, the Mongol territorial occupation was of a scope and range never equaled.
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On Arab Culture and Its Crucial Characteristics
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
29 Jan 2024 – Understanding Arab culture and the values based on it are the crucial points for the proper understanding of the modern region of MENA (Middle East and North Africa). Nevertheless, all people in the region are not Arabs, such as Turks, Jews, some North African tribes, or Iranians.
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Special Features of the Region of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Vladislav B. Sotirovic - TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
1 Jan 2024
In principle, the crucial mark of the region is the predominant Arab culture with some contrasts in the cultural habits between, for instance, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Besides, the cultural features of several other ethnic and confessional groups of MENA give a more comprehensive picture of the region’s peoples and challenges.
→ read full articleThe Middle East as a “Powder Keg”
Vladislav B. Sotirovic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
27 Nov 2023 – The focal feature of both the history and the politics of the region of the Middle East in the Modern and Contemporary Age (during the last 250 years) is the constant conflicts between different internal and external conflicts.
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“Just War” and Just War Theory
Vladislav B. Sotirović | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
4 Jun 2023 – A most disputed topic in regard to wars is the idea of a Just War–a war founded on justice, caused and conducted in the name of humanity such as self-defense or protection of minority groups.
→ read full articleThe Destabilization of Macedonia? Greater Albania and the Process of “Kosovization”
Vladislav B. Sotirović - Global Research,
25 May 2015
Macedonia always was the crossroad of the Balkans having a vital strategic position at the peninsula. The geostrategic importance of Macedonia was probably expressed the best by the German kanzellar Otto von Bismarck: “Those who control the valley of the River Vardar are the masters of the Balkans”.
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