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Max Weber argued that “power is the likelihood that one actor within social relations will be able to achieve his goal despite opposition” 1… In his book Economy and Society, Weber identifies three types of domination.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's visit to Kiev made huge news around Russia and has been cause for great speculation. Thus far after Biden's big electoral victory Washington has been surprisingly quiet when it comes to the Ukrainian question. Are we on the road to WW3 as Kiev may make one final push in the Donbass or is this a platitude fest designed to throw some nice sounding buzzwords at Zelensky. Our guest and geopolitical analyst Leonid Savin will discuss this issue and more.
We meet the scholar Alessandro Fanetti, author of the book “Russia: in search of the lost power” (Edizioni Eiffel, 2021) [1], to face the reality of a country that seems far away
The ex-Soviet states of the Caucasus and Central Asia have, following the early 1990s, been “all about America's energy security” according to Bill Richardson, the Clinton era diplomat and former American ambassador to the United Nations.
The various problems and processes taking place in the world make it clear that the world is in two main positions, and the rest follow and imitate one of the two sides.
At present, only two companies – South Korea’s Samsung and Taiwan’s TSMC – manufacture semiconductors on an industrial scale at the most advanced process nodes. These industry leaders are currently producing in commercial quantities at the 7-nanometre (nm) node, while striving to move to 5 nm, and then, finally, to 3 nm by the mid-2020s. For comparison, the US integrated chip manufacturer Intel is also eager to produce in volume at 7 nm, but the company ran into difficulties in achieving this goal, announcing in July 2020 that production of its next-generation chips would be delayed until 2022.
A word we seem to hear a lot lately is “geek”, which refers to someone who has a passion or even an obsession for various technological innovations.
The situation in the Middle East is changing rapidly. The recent unrest in Israel is growing like fire and entering into a dangerous zone.
“Italy has aligned itself with other European countries, including France, Germany and Belgium and has summoned the Chinese ambassador in protest against the sanctions impose
The perception of China as a strategic competitor of the US has been developing among Americans for years now.
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