Category: Global Insights
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An Age of Wars? Sergei Karaganov, January 2024
I begin this article with the words of my best-loved Russian poet Alexander Blok, who is comparable in his gift of clairvoyance to the greatest Russian genius Fyodor Dostoevsky. I have long been watching the world inexorably moving towards a wave of military conflicts threatening to develop into a third world thermonuclear war that can…
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Russia’s Putin: Meet the New Boss, Scott Ritter, Global Research, May 2024
Vladimir Putin was sworn in for his fifth term as Russia’s President. Mainstream Western Russian “experts” paint Putin as a corrupt autocrat governing over a failed system and nation. Their “reality” couldn’t be further from the truth. In her July 27, 2020, review of Catherine Belton’s book, Putin’s People, in The Atlantic, Anne Applebaum concluded that following his re-election…
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Defending Taiwan by Defending Ukraine: The Interconnected Fates of the World’s Democracies, J.J.Wu, Foreign Affairs, May 2024
The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a wake-up call: it was time to move past the vision of a post‒Cold War world in which regimes in Moscow and Beijing would become responsible stakeholders in a rules-based international order. What has emerged, instead, is an increasingly contentious world plagued by authoritarian aggression, most dangerously exemplified by…
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Genuine Multilateralism and Diplomacy vs the “Rules-Based Order, Sergei Lavrov, 2023
As is traditional, the month of May in Russia is marked by the broad celebrations commemorating the anniversary of the Great Victory. The defeat of Nazi Germany—an achievement to which our country made a decisive contribution, with the support from our Allies—paved the way for the post-war international order, with the UN Charter as its…
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Membangun Dunia Baru (Sukarno, Sidang Umum PBB, 30 September 1960)
Tuan Ketua, Para Yang Mulia, Para utusan dan Wakil yang terhormat, Hari ini, dalam mengucapkan pidato kepada Sidang Majelis Umum Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa, saya merasa tertekan oleh suatu rasa tanggung jawab yang besar. Saya merasa rendah hati berbicara di hadapan rapat agung daripada negarawan-negarawan yang bijaksana dan berpengalaman dari Timur dan Barat, dari Utara dan Selatan,…
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Imperialisme dan Kapitalisme (Sukarno, Indonesia Menggugat 1930)
Imperialisme Tua Dan Modern (I) Dan bukan saja di dalam dua macam itu imperialisme bisa kita bagikan,–imperialisme juga bisa kita bagikan dalam imperialisme-tua dan imperialisme-modern. Bukankah besar bedanya imperialismetua bangsa Portugis dan Spanyol atau East India Company Inggris atau Oost Indische Compagnie Belanda dalam abad ke-16, 17 dan 18— dengan imperialisme-modern yang kita lihat dalam…
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To Build the World Anew! (Sukarno, UN Speech, 30 September 1960)
Today, in addressing this session of the United Nations General Assembly, I feel oppressed by a great sense of responsibility. I feel a humility in speaking to this august gathering of wise and experienced statesmen from east and west, from the north and from the south, from old nations and from young nations and from…
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Great Reset dan Biopolitik Bencana:Tantangan Tata Dunia Damai dan Inklusi Sosial (2021)
Tulisan ini membahas pandemi Covid-19 sebagai krisis kesehatan global yang membuka kotak pandora geopolitik internasional, kapitalisme finansial dan biopolitik neoliberalisme. Dengan menguatnya wacana pandemi sebagai matriks utama ketidakamanan dunia, maka mendesak untuk diperiksa hubungan antara isu ketidakamanan biopolitik yang dinarasikan Great Reset ini dan isu konflik ekonomi-politik yang mengemuka dalam dua dekade 2001-2019. Dengan itu…