In August 2021, the United States withdrew its troops from Afghanistan with great fiasco. At the same time, some questions remain. One of those is the large scale troops’ deployment to this country in the first place and secondly, why they stayed there for such a long time, that is for 20 years.
The presentation gives an overview of the basic concepts of diplomacy, the historical formation of diplomacy, International rules, regulations and basic documents in diplomacy (especially Vienna Conventions from 1960s); of diplomatic protocol, hierarchy, receptions, visits, table-arrangements during various dinners and alcohol with food, international diplomatic and custom writing in comparison. (veel …)
Tallinn-Vienna
Evening connecting flight from Tallinn to Frankfurt and right away to Vienna. Almost everything went smoothly except that my Lufthansa’s flight was delayed during the departure of and not because the airline would have been guilty, but that … in Tallinn there was a “very strong wind” (?!) announced by a stewardess on board of the plane.
Sunday afternoon. I am looking for a flight to Beijing at Vantaa Airport (Finland, Helsinki). Long-distance flights to Asia are within an hour: Tokyo, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and the last six o’clock in the evening, our Beijing flight. In the last two hours, the Asian, Japanese and Chinese languages have dominated this part of Vantaa Airport lounge. (veel …)
Many Russian and international sources suggest that the Russian Federation’s new global superpower gaining tactic of traditional diplomacy has been added by the use of the foreign military groupings (sometimes openly called legionnaires) in various conflicting places in the world (veel …)
The aim of this presentation is to give an introduction of the basics of a group of countries named BRICS. It proposes answers to various questions, like what is BRICS, why it has established, the membership, leaders of the group, goals to 2050 and what is currently happening to BRICS? Also the potential link with liberalism is examined. (veel …)
In 1848 British newspaper Saturday Review explained some social problems via mentioning the word of security (“we do not know exactly when we should be alarmed about the social problems and when they – the social problems – are caused by security”). The word was used but the meaning of it was ans still is vague, ambiguous and confusing. (veel …)
Afghanistan raises many questions. Looking from the outside, this is a multi-ethnic state, but is it still a state in its classic contemporary sense? If there is no national-national identity completely, is a country without identity a real state at all or is it just on paper? (veel …)
The following article discusses Estonia-Russia relations in a broader, globalized world, not in the context of a simple national bilateralism. The aim of the article is not to analyze Estonian-Russian relations, but rather Russia-Estonia relations, with the greater emphasis on Russia and Estonia would be mentioned in general. The latter is due to a well-established practice where Russia’s official foreign policy statements and the address to the Baltic States, including Estonia, present Russia’s demands, however, sometimes – also the proposals in the 1990. Such circumstances have triggered reaction from Estonia. Without specifying Russia’s positions here and giving them no assessment (positive / negative), it must be admitted that Russia has been largely the initiator of these relations, but Estonia is rather a counter-reactant.
The aim of the presentation is to conceptualize basic theoretical and empirical principles of global norms in international politics and to analyze the problems in the context of yet again changing world order from disputable liberal world order to a new stage of world arrangement where besides the international organizations as key figures in decision-making also nation states (of various types) are participating, especially the bigger ones. The presentation also focuses on the theoretical aspects of global transition models. (veel …)