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The World’s Reaction to D. Trump’s Declaration on the Status of the Golan Heights

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Oleksiy Volovych On March 25, 2019, US President D. Trump signed the Proclamation on Recognizing the Golan Heights as Part of the State of Israel. The position of Ukraine. March 26, the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kateryna Zelenko, said that Ukraine was complying with the UN Security Council’s resolutions on the status of the Golan Heights, in particular Resolutions No. 242 of 1967, No. 465 of 1980, and also No. 497 of 1981, which states that “the Israeli decision to establish its laws, jurisdiction and administration in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights is null and void and…

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China’s Marching Westwards

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How Safe Is the “New Silk Road”   Serhiy Polyovyk The authoritative German edition Handelsblatt, specializing in economic studies and forecasts, and determining financial world trends, on March 29 posted analytical material on the EU-China Summit to be held on April 9 in Brussels. It reports that not only German analysts, but also their European colleagues believe that China’s strategic initiative “The Belt and Road”, which has already been partially implemented in different regions of the world, is a threat to Europe. And it explains its essence, which is, in fact, the economic absorption of…

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The Taliban: A Threat to the Central Asia Region

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Vadym Volokhov The years-long war in Afghanistan has given rise to the phenomenon of the Taliban movement. Some Afghan political analysts and analysts in the West consider it a purely Afghan phenomenon. Maybe it is, but the events of the spring of 2019 show that the melting of snow and opening of mountain passes increases the danger for Afghanistan’s neighboring countries — Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. The aggravation of the situation on the borders of Afghanistan indicates that the phenomenon of the “Taliban” is no longer purely Afghan, and in addition to Tajikistan, they…

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China Is Making It to Europe from the South

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Roman Kot Despite the fact that the European Union remains one of the largest economic powers in the world, politically, European states failed to develop a single entity that would allow them to respond collectively to external or internal challenges. As a result, the EU is forced to step back and focus on one of two global powers: China or the United States. Traditionally, the established cooperation with the United States, especially within the framework of NATO, for a long time allowed Europe, under security umbrella, to care about the economy, not the army. At the same time, the…

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“BINTEL” Geopolitical Analytics Journal, Issue 1, 2019

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This Year’s First Issue of the “BINTEL” Geopolitical Analytics Journal This year’s first issue of the “BINTEL” Geopolitical Analytics Journal is traditionally opened by the material by President of the “Borysfen Intel” Centre Victor Hvozd. The article is entitled “The New Multipolar World and Ukraine”. The author summed up the results of political events, the beginning of which dates back to 1980–1990. This means the “Cold War” between the Western and Eastern blocs, which, according to the author, was considered a kind of prolongation of the Second World War and could in fact have turned into…

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