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Colibasanu, Geopolitical Futures: “World wars tend to be recurrent”

Published at: 19-04-2018

Posted on: April 19th, 2018 by RaduC No Comments

My guest this week is Ms Antonia Colibasanu, a well-known geopolitical analyst with Geopolitical Futures where she is the Chief Operating Officer, a capacity in which she works closely with the founder of the organization, the celebrated geopolitical forecaster and strategist George Friedman. RC: Antonia, thank you for accepting my invitation. We continue to live […]

Romania`s parallel states

Published at: 04-03-2018

Posted on: March 4th, 2018 by RaduC

I spent quite a while hesitating between two title versions. The other version would have asked „Is Romania a torn country?”. The “torn country” concept was coined by Samuel P. Huntington in his celebrated book The Clash of Civilizations, where he explained that with the ideological fault lines feeding the cold war gone, conflicts will […]

Military alliances cannot run at two speeds

Published at: 16-02-2018

Posted on: February 16th, 2018 by RaduC

Faced with many problems which question its very existence, the EU is trying to re-invent itself. The organization is clearly at a crossroad which is harder to overcome as the diversity of its members` priorities makes a consensus on the way forward highly unlikely. There is a visible decoupling of the mainstream national elites that […]

The war of the century which will define our future

Published at: 29-12-2017

Posted on: December 29th, 2017 by RaduC

We are living in an increasingly sophisticated, agitated, unstable and unpredictable world. And at the end of the day, increasingly tense. There is palpable tension on several levels: social, political, economic, geostrategic, to name a few. The tectonic plates of humanity as we know it are slowly but surely moving to define new realities. The […]

A plague hangs over Europe decimating Romania`s population

Published at: 20-10-2017

Posted on: October 20th, 2017 by RaduC

A plague hangs over Europe. And I am not referring to nationalism … Because nationalism is but one symptom of a much deeper problem eroding the future of Europe and decimating the population of Romania. And this, please note, as both Europe and Romania are overall on the same upward path towards economic wealth. The […]

We have been flooded with money. What`s next?

Published at: 13-10-2017

Posted on: October 13th, 2017 by RaduC No Comments

Some pundits or opinion leaders` temptation to estimate the future by looking at historical changes does not cease to amaze me. It is the clear proof that we are still in the dark as to what we are going through, we fail to understand that as witnesses and subjects to a total paradigm shift we […]

“Romania`s big problem is indecision”

Published at: 06-10-2017

Posted on: October 6th, 2017 by RaduC No Comments

This is the  interview posted a week ago with Professor Dan Dungaciu, Director of the Political Sciences and International Relations Institute of the Romanian Academy continued. RC: In the last few weeks the army seemed to be publicly facing three major problems of financial nature: the obscenely high pensions of some officers which adversely impacted the reputation […]

“Security, too serious to leave it to the generals”

Published at: 29-09-2017

Posted on: September 29th, 2017 by RaduC No Comments

This week, after quite a while, I have again a distinguished guest with whom I intend to address the ever topical subject for Romania: security and its vulnerabilities at the crossroads of the great geostrategic interests. And one of the most knowledgeable speakers on this subject is Professor Dan Dungaciu, Director of the Political Sciences […]

Warfare against Romania driven by both them and us

Published at: 26-05-2017

Posted on: May 26th, 2017 by RaduC No Comments

I recently attended a security lecture held by a retired general where I learnt a new term: “non-kinetic warfare”. You may probably not be familiar with it either as I found that a google search for the Romanian term gave almost no results. It defines the type of warfare waged against a country unlike the […]

We rode the third wave. Will the fourth drag us under?

Published at: 21-04-2017

Posted on: April 21st, 2017 by RaduC

The history of mankind has been marked on some occasions by technological bounds, spectacular at that time, which radically changed the way society functioned. Most studies referring to these milestones tend to see 3 technological waves, 3 industrial revolutions. The first industrial revolution is thought to have been triggered towards the end of the 18th […]
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