There were two important international achievements on nuclear weapons in april. First US and Russia signed the non-proliferation treaty then Nuclear Security Summit was held. These two related achievements are important in respect to build the nuclear policy of superpowers in the next 10 years. Read more

It was not expected that increase of production, growth and prosperity would arise Russia again. This period which was started with the collapse of USSR, had reached its peak with the increase of oil prices by the impact of US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. Moscow government made a strategic decision in 2000. Control of Russian economy should be transferred to the state solidly. Read more

Time is running out for Iran. The missile trials of Iran which was dated in the earlier February was not only disturbed US and Israel, it also disturbed which are planning to collaborate with Iran including Russia and China. Russia and China is actually disturbed from Iran's provocation of US and Israel for an intervention. Read more

Ukraine's elections will be remembered as the first disaster for the glasnost policy NATO enacted regarding human rights and democracy. Above all, it must be seen as the first setback for NATO expansion ever since it began. Since 2001 NATO's expansion towards Russia's borders has been blocked at the Dnieper River. Read more

Raiding shepherd tribes is like a bear who destroys the bee hive while trying to steal from it. Oppenheimer uses this analogy while describing how people submit during state formation as transformation from bear to bee-master. No doubt, since Oppenheimer many new ideas have been added to theories of the state. Read more

Turkey, one of the key actors in the Middle East, is in the midst of a difficult, yet decisive, process towards the resolution of the nearly 100 year old Kurdish problem. Read more