Sevastopol

2. Cold War II: IS IT POSSIBLE? The confrontation between the European Union and the United States with Russia over current events in Ukraine, cooperation against international terrorism, agreement to Syria’s chemical weapons, cooperation in the Middle East and Afghanistan and Russia’s closer partnership with China have begun to produce gossips of renewal of the Cold War with exchanges of sharp accusations, the statement of economic sanctions, and-most dangerous-military race that would put both…

The final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo and the collapse of the French Empire left a bittersweet mood in France. Many, tired of the long war and declining morale, welcomed a fresh start. Others, however, missed the sweet taste of empire and detested defeat and the foreign dissection of French territory. In exile, the Bonapartes waited for a chance and a member of the family who could restore honor to their name. Louis Napoleon met the description. Staging multiple failed coups,…

Russia, once a great power state during its empire and cold war era, is taking opportunities to gain power again over its rivals, and the United States (U.S.) being the greatest one. Since Russia has revisionist intention in its core, it is not satisfied with the post-cold war international order, and seeks its rightful place among great power states. Russia’s intent to maximize power and its ultimate goal to rise again as a hegemon, challenges current international order. Russia is trying to…