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The Marilyn Monroe Doctrine and The International Rules Based Order 

BY BRIAN PATRICK BOLGER The ‘Rules Based’ International legal order, that convenient phantom, had its coffin nailed at Nuremburg in 1945. Yet the accepted mainstream news take on Venezuela was that Maduro’s flight of fancy to the US was something crashing the norms of the ordered world of modernity. A usurpation of the decent normalcy of the twentieth century. Please. As Cicero opined “In time … Continue reading The Marilyn Monroe Doctrine and The International Rules Based Order 

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He-Man Xi Unmasked

BY IAN MITCHELL A persuasive analysis of the new Marxist Nationalism of President Xi’s increasingly assertive and intolerant China In 1861, the great jurist and legal anthropologist, Sir Henry Maine, wrote in his classic study, Ancient Law: “the movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.” He was referring to the development from primitive patriarchal societies, in which nobody other … Continue reading He-Man Xi Unmasked

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Can Sino-Russian Cooperation Last? Part II

BY PETER HARRIS Part I can be read here. Russia regards the five former Soviet Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan as part of its sphere of influence. So far, Russia has tolerated and benefited from Chinese initiatives in the region such as the aforementioned Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Belt and Road Initiative. However, China’s moves within the region are … Continue reading Can Sino-Russian Cooperation Last? Part II

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Can Sino-Russian Cooperation Last? Part I

BY PETER HARRIS Russia and China have never been so close in their relations as they are now. As affirmation of this deeper tie, in July 2023 around a dozen Russian and Chinese warships conducted naval exercises in the Sea of Japan (East Sea) and in waters near Alaska. These had the double effect of demonstrating both nations’ commitment to being the hegemon within their … Continue reading Can Sino-Russian Cooperation Last? Part I

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