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Diplomatic Signals Instrumentum Aurenium
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- Overheid
A podcast on geopolitical intrigue. A perennial student of geopolitics, economics and commerce, I ask, how do these things act together in the world?
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What Does Chinese Soft Power Look Like?
The contours of Chinas soft power profile include Chinese loans, infrastructure projects and an official position in the debate for socio political and economic orders.
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Could a Post Bismarck Germany Have Chisen Soft Power over Hard Power?
China can learn from Germany's miscalculations in military aggrandizement. Your neighbours always respond. They don't want to be provoked.
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Should China Persist in it's Project of Military Aggrandisement?
For China, the choice is between economic might and a muted military profile, and military aggramdizement and the arms race and rebalancing that come with it.
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What us the Transition From a Bipolar World to a Multipolar World?
Power is organised around the strongest poles. Economic and military heft create the gravity of the poles.
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Nuclear Arms and the Threshold of war.
Nuclear weapons have not stopped nuclear armed states from military adventures against states without nuclear Arms.
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What is the Difference Between Collective Defense and Collective Security?
Collective security systems involve all the nations of the earth while Collective Defense systems are exclusive and are designed to respond to a specified threat.