Exactly 2500 years ago, in 477/476 BC, the premonition of serious changes in the balance of power in the Old World was in the air. Whereas 500 years earlier Israel and China were the world leaders, the situation was now reversed. The Jews were now obedient subjects of the gigantic Achaemenid Persian Empire, at the time the largest in history in terms of area and power.
We present to your attention a new historical-didactic series of essays on the history of the geopolitical balance of power through the comparison of different chronological cutaways, which allow us to assess the milestones in the formation of civil multipolarism.
Art, as they say, is a mirror, and the saying holds true for the 1986 pop-culture ‘classic’ movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
Despite the fact that not only hospitals and mosques but also Christian churches were destroyed during the bombardment of the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces, many people who call themselves Christians and who are not ethnic Jews actively support Isr
Tim Wildmon, President of the American Family Association, when announcing a trip to President George Washington’s home of Mt.
The word ‘freedom’ has a powerful hold on the hearts of folks in the States. Invoking it has caused very intense and sometimes contradictory reactions over the years.
New year is not a particularly important festival in England. It is something what we celebrate largely because it happens so soon after Christmas and it can mark a useful end to the Christmas celebrations.
Officials in Vienna have decided not to erect a previously commissioned statue of Polish King Jan III Sobieski, the savior of Vienna in 1683.
As Africans went formal through the acquisition of western education, a critical question of that era is, before the “independence” of most African states when its much needed man power is being trained; was it the lack of interest or incompetence
When we say that the mega-corporations are secondary actors in international relationships and that commonly require the states to act, we are not unaware that the mega-corporations, the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund and other inte
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