Strategy & Policy

21

Oct

China, Foreign Policy Magazine, pejournal, Russia, SANCTIONS, UN Security Council, USA

The sanctions system is collapsing

PEJOURNAL - An American journal has published research articles explaining the ineffectiveness of UN Security Council sanctions, stating that a number of factors, including China and Russia's opposition to the sanctions, have been implicated.Foreign Policy Magazine writes that the UN sanctions system is facing challenges that have hampered its effective functioning. China and Russia's opposition to the sanctions, along with efforts by countries such as South Sudan and South Korea to intimidate and harass experts involved in identifying sanctions violations, has been influential.The UN Security Council first targeted a country in 1966 with economic sanctions.At the time, the Security Council…

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20

Oct

China, COVID19, global insecurity, international responsibilities, NATO, Russia, the United States, USA, war

Traditional American international responsibilities have lost their importance

BY: Mohammad Ghaderi PEJOURNAL - A brief look at the past shows that military solutions have not worked. The United States withdrew from Afghanistan and is scheduled to withdraw from Iraq and then from Syria. The United States' efforts and legacy in the Middle East, despite its heavy costs, have failed to strengthen the foundations of democracy in the region. The result of all this American expense and effort in the Middle East was, unfortunately, the emergence of a hostile discourse that made all countries in the region more hostile to each other; and during the turmoil in the region,…

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16

Oct

Canada, Justin Trudeau, new cabinet

Trudeau will name new cabinet on Oct. 26

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will name his new cabinet in just over one week, with a hotly anticipated return to business for parliamentarians now officially set for Nov. 22. In a press release Friday morning, Trudeau’s office announced he will reveal who he has selected as cabinet ministers on Oct. 26 and that Parliament will return late next month. The House of Commons and the Senate have not sat since June, when the regular session ended for the summer ahead of the federal election that began in August. The release confirmed the cabinet will remain gender-balanced and that Chrystia Freeland…

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09

Oct

Asia-Pacific, AUKUS, China, Indo-Pacific, Russia, the United States, UK, USA

AUKUS; US effort to complete Asia-Pacific strategy

PEJOURNAL - The strategic development has started since the presidency of Barak Obama, has continued and fortified until now. The US strategy contains different economic, political, military and security aspects. Yet, within the past decade, the United states has achieved success in some of these areas. However, the strategy of the country has not been successful in other areas. AUKUS, the recent treaty among the United states, UK and Australia is considered to be the latest measure taken by the US in strategic prioritization over the Asia Pacific. In economic field, the most important measure of Obama Administration was to…

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02

Oct

Alternative for Germany, Angela Merkel, Armin Laschet, Bundestag, Christian Democrat Party, Election, Europe, GERMANY, Greens Party, Olaf Scholz, Social Democratic Party

Landmark election in Germany and its European consequences

PEJOURNAL - Germany held a landmark and important election on Sunday, September 26, 2021. The election will put an end to the 16-year chancellorship of Angela Merkel, who led the country for four consecutive terms. More than 60 million Germans over 18 years of age are eligible to vote. It should be noted that in Germany, the executive power takes its legitimacy from legislative power. Bundestag nationwide election is considered as the most important political event of the country at the federal level. Although the result of elections announced immediately but it may take several months until negotiations to form…

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19

Sep

AUKUS, Australia, China, EU, France, global insecurity, Israel, NATO, Non‑Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Pooya Mirzaei, Russia, South China Sea, the United States, UK

AUKUS: From breaking the Non‑Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to the global insecurity

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - The leaders of the United States, Britain and Australia signed a diplomatic, security and military co-operation agreement targeting the Indo-Pacific region, that is called AUKUS. The key point in AUKUS is that Australia's nuclear submarine program will be the first major project of this pact that will help Australia acquire nuclear submarines. Although the media and political circles claim that the purpose of AUKUS agreement is to counter China's growing influence in the world, a deep look at AUKUS reveals several important points: First; The agreement focuses on Australia's acquisition of a nuclear submarine in…

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06

Sep

Afghanistan, EU, GERMANY, Josep Borrell, NATO, Pooya Mirzaei, USA

Afghanistan’s important lesson for Europe

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who visited Slovenia in a statement welcomed by Germany, said: "Developments in Afghanistan have shown the need to create a common army and defense force of European countries." These positions, which can be considered a sign of Europe's disappointment with the United States and NATO, have been raised while since 1945, the end of World War II, the United States has ruled Europe under the NATO military umbrella and Marshall Plan. Now, given the Taliban developments in Afghanistan and the flight of the United States and NATO from this…

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25

Aug

China, competition, Joe Biden, Russia, the United States, world order

The formation of a future world order in the Chinese-American competition

BY: Yahya Sorbelo PEJOURNAL - Non-constructive competition between the United States and China has become a model of international relations that will affect the strategic issues and political, military and economic dynamics of the world. The competition for power that can affect future world order, involves different understanding of threats in the form of a political-ideological component based on Chinese and American values. This rivalry in the war of ideas and values over Chinese authoritarianism and American democracy is very influential in the process of trade and security conflicts between the United States and China in shaping the future world…

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25

Aug

Saudi Arabia, strategic partner, the United States

Saudi Arabia is never a strategic partner of the United States

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - Many years have passed since the Nixon-Kissinger doctrine of dividing responsibilities in the field of foreign policy and giving responsibility to regional powers. The same doctrine that introduced the Shah of Iran as the regional gendarmerie as a military arm and Saudi Arabia as its economic arm and ultimately complemented the role of the Iranian gendarmerie in the Middle East. In the meantime, the United States has once again chosen a policy of helping Saudi Arabia dominate the region and lead the Arab world, as well as supporting the kingdom in regional conflicts, after regional…

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18

Aug

BRICS, China, European Union, G7, Pooya Mirzaei, Russia, Trumpists

G7, surrender to self-made crises

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - The idea of forming the G7 after the global oil crisis in 1973 convinced the powerful leaders of the world's major industrialized nations in 1975 that they needed closer and more coherent cooperation for the economic-security crisis caused by economic and oil shocks. But the failure of the Group of Seven in recent years, given the growth of tangible and intangible threats and the changing and fluid nature of threats, has led to the questioning of its existential philosophy. In the current context, and given the out-of-control crises, especially transnational ones, and the conventional and…

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