Kontekst: Grčko-turske tenzije na Mediteranu

Skoro 10 godina rata u Siriji: Koliko je daleko mir i kakav je trenutni odnos snaga

Skoro 10 godina nakon početka sukoba u Siriji rat je i dalje glavna tema na području ove države. Koliko je danas Sirija bliža miru i kakvi su odnosi snaga u ovoj zemlji za Klix.ba je komentirao Jahja Muhasilović, profesor i analitičar. Situacija u kojoj se nalazi narod ove zemlje najbolje oslikava i "šala" koju sirijski narod često spominje u posljednje vrijeme, gdje se navodi kako bi bilo najbolje da se kompletno stanovništvo odseli s područja Sirije kako bi se na taj način osiguralo dovoljno prostora međunarodnim akterima da "u miru" mogu ostvarivati svoje interese. Međunarodnih aktera u ovoj državi je i previše. Iran, Izrael, Turska, Rusija, SAD, Saudijska Arabija. Kroz ratove na sirijskom tlu, apsolutno svi ostvaruju svoje interese . Danas je sukob u Siriji aktivan najviše na sjeverozapadnim i sjeveroistočnim dijelovima zemlje, što znatno otežava okolnosti kada govorimo o mogućnosti mira u ovoj zemlji. Međutim, iako je mir i dalje daleko, čini se kako se s...

BOOK REVIEW: Dimitar Bechev, Rival Power: Russia’s Influence in Southeast Europe

For centuries Balkans is playing an important role in Russia’s foreign policy. During the Czarist Russia, the region served as one of the main polygons on the Empire’s way to access the warm seas of the Mediterranean, thus ending its historical deficiency of lacking navigable waters during the winter months. With the establishment of the Soviet Union, Russia was present in the region through the ideological camp formed together with the socialist regimes in the Balkans. Later on, two unusual Socialist regimes of Albania and Yugoslavia severed their ways with the Kremlin. But, despite all Soviet influence in the region would remain pretty strong throughout the Cold War. Moscow’s influence will start diminishing with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. For a decade to come, through the 1990s, Russia will struggle to keep its status as a relevant power in the Balkans. With the wars in Former Yugoslavia the region entered a period of “Pax Americana” where Washington the...

US Comeback and Counter-measures in the Balkans

By Jahja Muhasilovic Recent political maneuvers in the Balkans indicate that the US has decided to more effectively counter growing Russian assertiveness in the Balkans. Russia has become a serious factor of destabilization in the region as the West has forsaken the region. Now the US has decided to play its card. After the crisis over Ukraine and Crimea back in 2014, the Kremlin has taken a dangerous yet from its perspective a necessary premise in the foreign policy. Russia is actively trying to undermine the Western influence wherever it can in the world, by widening the cracks that have appeared in the Western-built international system. This new strategy implies integrated network of activities from supporting various ultra-nationalist elements across the Western world that are undermining multilateralism, financing neo-Nazi groups to well-planned cyber-attacks, spreading fake news, social media propaganda through ‘bots’, or even meddling in the elections, like in the case...

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