Rhymes in History

09/11/2024 15:47

The next 25 years

Geography is destiny. Geographical locations are economically, strategically and culturally crucial, and their role will become increasingly important in the future. As in nature, new eras in the economy are being born on the margins.

15/08/2024 07:00

A journey into the depths of Turkish and Hungarian culture

“These events will help our people discover different dimensions of each other's culture while fostering mutual understanding, respect, and tolerance,” pointed out Türkiye’s Ambassador to Hungary Gülşen Karanis Ekşioğlu in an interview with Eurasia.

31/05/2024 13:26

How China and the EU see the future

It’s that horrible, inhuman question for which you must always be prepared: “Where do you see yourself in five years?” But yes, you can indeed learn a lot about people by knowing what they want to become.

02/05/2024 09:00

Eurasia's future innovation axis

If you look at the map of the world's top fifty science and technology centres, you can see the dominance of East Asia. Last year, for the first time, China became the country with the most science and technology clusters in the top 100, with twenty-four in total. The United States has twenty-one such clusters and Germany nine.

27/03/2024 10:48

Baku – an oriental Paris built by Poles

Following the Partitions of Poland in the late 18th century, the Polish nation and its messianic ideals persisted. This enduring concept exerted significant influence throughout the 19th century. This influence manifested itself not only in supporting the freedom struggles of neighbouring countries, but also in various cultural accomplishments, including the cityscape of present-day Azerbaijan's capital.

19/02/2024 20:04

The Year of the Wood Dragon promises courage and strength

According to the lunar calendar, the Chinese Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival - and with it the Year of the Wood Dragon - began on February 10. The Chinese dragon symbol represents goodness, courage, consistency and perseverance, while wood represents growth and progress in Eastern astrology.

24/01/2024 12:29

The magic of space in the Kazakh desert

This is where Yuri Gagarin once set off on his historic journey from the launch pad that now bears his name. Over the decades, Baikonur has grown into a mystical name beyond itself, and although it is an old and underdeveloped spaceport, it is still not abandoned.

05/01/2024 19:38

Sustainable Eurasian connectivity

China launched the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, and it has become the largest and most significant investment in human history, with the potential to expand flexibly in time and space as a complex network. China's long-term plan is to restore Eurasia to its former historical, cultural, economic and commercial importance by building the New Silk Road, which will consist of railways, development of sea and land ports, highway construction, the creation and development of logistics centres and networks of economic corridors

22/12/2023 07:00

World regime change underway

The shift in world order that began in the second half of the 2010s and accelerated in the early 2020s took shape this year, most notably in the expansion of economic and development policy forums in the global South.

27/11/2023 08:00

Compromise for governance

In Thailand, the monarch, which is rather unusual among constitutional monarchies, also plays an important political role as a mediator between the various factions, especially between the military dictatorship and the pro-democracy forces. The country's citizens experienced this in the 20th century with numerous changes of government, which illustrates the cyclicality, but the trend is likely to continue in the future.

16/10/2023 10:34

The future has already begun a decade ago

Globalisation entered a new era from 2013. Thanks to a 24/7 global economy based on new technologies, knowledge, capital, talent and technology are going the distance. However, mobility has increased not only for individuals with the advent of the internet, modern public transport and new industries, but also for nations, communities and countries.

03/10/2023 10:18

Geography 6.0

To understand what is happening in the world, we need to turn to geography. Today, everyone talks about geopolitics, but we approach the issue mainly from the defence side, rather than from the geographical - "geo" - side.

25/08/2023 08:00

Romantic regionalism is back

German Romanticism has globalised—localising globally as a template of regionalist resistance. Yes, the spirit of Herder still roams the earth. Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803) was the theorist of the regional and the particular; of the love for that which is one’s own, paired with a sense of shared humanity toward the other.

01/08/2023 06:00

Kazakhstan’s state symbols

A national symbol is a symbol of any entity considering and manifesting itself to the world as a national community: the sovereign states but also nations and countries in a state of colonial or other dependence, federal integration, or even an ethnocultural community considered a ‘nationality’ despite having no political autonomy.

16/07/2023 06:00

Oman: Islamic New Year Day becomes public and private sector holiday

The Sultanate of Oman has declared the first day of the Islamic New Year a public holiday. As reported by the Oman News Agency, July 20, will be a public and private sector holiday in the country.

20/06/2023 06:47

Geography is the key to history

Ian Morris, the English-born archaeologist and historian and professor at Stanford University, has written fascinating books ("The Measure of Civilization", "War! What is it Good For?” or “Why the West Rules—For Now”) comparing the development of the East and the West over the last 15,000 years.