Russia: Would-Be Great Power?
MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) – Anyone strolling around a half-decent bookshop these days will find that most of the books on current affairs seem to deal with Islam […]
Read MoreRussia and the West – polar opposites or two sides of the same coin? Part III
MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) The Western and Russian media – not quite so different Western critiques of press freedom in Russia look somewhat ironic against the background of […]
Read MoreRussia and the West – polar opposites or two sides of the same coin? Part II
MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) Russia and Chechnya – and Stalin Chechnya is of course the black spot on Russia’s recent record. But it also shows the immense difficulty […]
Read MoreRussia and the West – polar opposites or two sides of the same coin? Part I
MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) Introduction After returning to Frankfurt after my first extended stay in Moscow in 1988, my German Russian teacher agreed with my observation that the […]
Read MoreRussia, the West and Energy: A Question of Double Standards?
MOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) – It is hardly surprising that the main headline in the Western media from President Putin’s annual press conference with Russian and international journalists […]
Read MoreКирпичики величия
Петербургский саммит G8 – отличный повод посмотреть, как складываются даже не отношения между Россией и ведущими странами постиндустриального общества, а их представления друг о друге. Надо сказать, что проблемы с […]
Read MoreNo Simple Case of Allegiance: Debunking the Radical Islam Stereotype in Central Asia
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan – The bomb attacks in the Uzbek capital Tashkent in August once again appeared to raise the spectre of Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism in Central Asia. But to […]
Read MoreThe Russian Conundrum
Abstract Russia’s contradictory reality does not accord with the conceptual categories of “success” or “failure” often used in scholarly and journalistic assessments of the country’s post-Soviet development. A broader approach […]
Read MoreIslam and the West – A Review of Bassam Tibi Book by Ian Pryde
A book review of Islamischer Fundamentalismus, moderne Wissenschaft und Technologie by Bassam Tibi, Professor of International Relations at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Published by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1992. […]
Read MoreKyrgyzstan – Secularism vs. Islam
Kyrgyzstan – Secularism vs Islam by Ian Pryde in The World Today November 1992 Published in The World Today, the monthly journal of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, […]
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