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Let’s reach out to Russia – for the sake of peace overcoming a “bloc mentality” and ideological firewalls
Immanuel Kant: “Out of wood so crooked as that of which man is made, nothing absolutely straight can be wrought” East Challenging times...
Dec 6, 20242 min read


The Peaceful Memel: Meandering through the old and new world order
Are appearances deceptive? The hegemony of the United States seems to be dissolving in favor of the new spheres of power and influence of...
Nov 26, 20231 min read


The Peaceful Memel: Meandering through the old and new world order
“Is your family German or Prussian?” our host, R., asked me abruptly in Lumpėnai, once Lompönen in the old Memel Territory, or Memelland...
Oct 31, 20231 min read


The sun rises in the East: A plea for identity, nations and international understanding
Immanuel Kant: “Peace is the masterpiece of reason.” A quick look at current world events is enough to reveal that the world is further...
Jul 10, 20231 min read


The Taiwan Saga
The storm that has been gathering over the South China Sea in recent years has now reached Taiwan’s shores. The question is whether...
Feb 16, 20221 min read


Spatial Conquest by Other Means: China’s Belt and Road Initiative
....BRI is a novel spatial security arrangement and part of China’s grand strategy for rebalancing global order. Uncertainty persists and...
Sep 24, 20211 min read


Other Views: Feinde für ewig?
Von Andrei Kortunov. Was der 22. Juni 1941 heute für Russen und deren Verhältnis zu den Deutschen bedeutet. Ich wurde 1957 geboren,...
Jul 1, 20217 min read


Rebalancing Asia
A chapter with Jan Lüdert, Ph.D. "Spatial Conquest by Other Means: Assessing the Belt and Road Initiative’s Geopolitical Impact" is out...
Jun 7, 20211 min read


A Clear View Eastwards: Russia and Germany
Oblast Kaliningrad-Königsberg: at the heart of German-Russian cooperation ...Roots, earth and homeland – these are difficult topics for...
Feb 8, 20211 min read


Assessing Securitization: China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Napoleon warned: “Let China sleep; when she awakes, she will shake the world”. As China awakens, the world around it is rumbling with the...
Oct 5, 20201 min read


Changeons notre façon de penser
Identités et frontières : Comment peut-on respecter et assurer le droit à l’autodétermination des êtres humains sans autant diviser ?...
Aug 25, 20201 min read


China, Europe and the G-zero world
What does it mean to live in a world without global leadership? Where is the European Union heading? What impact will Trump’s “America...
Aug 25, 20201 min read


Belt&Road - the conquest of space
China’s meta-strategy and Europe The driver behind this commercial project is, above all, a new ideology being advanced by the CPC....
Aug 25, 20201 min read
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