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A familiar drama has resurfaced in Skopje. While I was still in Beijing attending the CASS academic conference on the Belt and…
Biljana Vankovska
Biljana Vankovska is a professor of political science and international relations at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, a member of the Transnational Foundation of Peace and Future Research (TFF) in Lund, Sweden, and the most influential public intellectual in Macedonia.
As a professor who has spent more than forty years studying questions of war and peace, international law and relations —and above…
The Palestinian question predates the United Nations, which is now celebrating its 80th anniversary. The roots of the Palestinian conflict lie in…
As China prepares to commemorate the 80th anniversary of victory over fascism on September 3, 2025, global attention turns to Beijing’s military…
This year marks another solemn anniversary of the atomic bombings—80 years since the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Over…
My analysis of the beginnings of cracks in NATO had been published with a short delay, just enough to become obsolete. I pointed to…
At NATO’s recent summit in The Hague (24–25 June), alliance leaders triumphantly announced a historic decision: all members will increase military spending to…
In 2022, I was invited to participate in a book project that gathered leading scientists worldwide to address a topic that already seemed critically…
As NATO’s next summit looms – against the backdrop of an escalating proxy war in Ukraine and a genocidal horror in Gaza…
The patience, strategic thinking, and chess-like approach of China’s leadership have once again proven their strength. Even one of the oldest weekly…