The disappearance of Yugoslavia on the market of global capital by Stanković-Pejnović Vesna R.

“…Through the dominance of the global financial system, the Western powers, in search of national and collective strategic interests, helped the Yugoslav economy to collapse and instigated its citizens to ethnic and social conflicts. …”
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Richardson Affaire: Great Britain and the Tokugawa Bakufu 1862–1863 by Roman Kodet

“…After Japan was forced to open its ports to the western powers, by the threat of western navies, it was further compelled to sign unequal treaties with the Great Powers. …”
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Ermeni Sorununda İki Ayrı Portre: Patrik Horen Aşıkyan ve Patrik Mateos İzmirliyan by Hale ŞIVGIN, Mehmet Batuhan ÇEKEN

“…The Russian Czardom and the Western powers, especially Britain, began to pressure the Ottoman Empire over the affair of “Reform” and used the events carried out by separatist Armenian organizations such as the Hinchak and Dashnak committees as an intermediary. …”
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The Arab Spring and Russia's Middle East Policy by Ali Samir Merdan, Halit Hamzaoğlu

“…Russia first considered the Arab Spring as a regional domestic issue, but this perspective changed as outside influences became involved in the events. The Western powers viewing the Arab Spring as a new regional political configuration influenced the overall framework of this change. …”
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HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE OF FORMING YALTA-POTSDAM SYSTEM OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS by Galina Rykun, Irina Ogarkova

“…The process took place under conditions of self-identification of new actors in international relations and the attempts of the leading western powers to establish the rules of international conduct that could be profitable for them. …”
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Historicising global nutrition: critical reflections on contested pasts and reimagined futures by Stuart Gillespie, Nicholas Nisbett, Erica Marie Nelson

“…Here we challenge linear understandings of progress in global health—with a focus on the field of nutrition—by returning to consider a previous cycle of dramatic social, political and economic change that prompted serious challenges to the dominance of Western powers and US-based philanthro-capitalists. With a ‘global’ health and nutrition audience in mind, we put forward considerations on why a better understanding of the continuities and divergences between this past and the present moment are necessary to challenge a status quo that was, and is, highly flawed.…”
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„Mała wojna” Rosji i Gruzji a rozpoczęcie wyścigu zbrojeń dronów by Olga Wasiuta, Sergiusz Wasiuta

“…The war also showed cracks in Europe between Western powers that wanted to maintain good relations with Russia and Eastern European Countries at the same time.…”
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Clash of cultures: the influence of the American culture wars on Westernisation in Singapore by Ho, Jian Kai

“…Ultimately, this paper reveals the irony at the heart of the state’s construction of and reaction to Westernisation—in its attempt to distinguish Singapore as inherently different from the Western cultures they condemned whilst ensuring good relations with Western powers such as America, the state inadvertently echoed American conservative discourses.…”
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The Concept of Multipolarity: Diversity of Approaches and Interpretations by Vladislav S. Soluianov

“…The foundation of multipolarity consists in the growth of economic, military, and political potential of non-Western powers and the weakening of the US position as a global leader. …”
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Trade treaties of Russian and British empires with Yattishar: historical and legal study by Roman Yu. Pochekaev

“…The results of the research to a certain extant correlate with modern approaches in the policy of Russian and western powers in Central Asia in terms of political situation in the region as well as political, legal and cultural traditions of Central Asian states and peoples.…”
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Ethics and Habits of Iranians in the Eyes of the British Agents during Nasir al-Din Shah Era by Shahab Shahidani, Kobra Mehdinasab

“…During the Qajar period, Iran was at the forefront of the strategic situation of Russia and the Western powers, especially Britain. Britain, in the Qajar era, through its colonial purposes, monitored Iran under any circumstances. …”
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Britain’s Policy of Socio-Cultural Influence: the Current State and Recent Developments by Vyacheslav V.Sutyrin

“…The author looks into the structure and dynamics of expenditures and draws a comparison with other leading Western powers. The research shows no significant transformations of approaches over the last decade as far as general logic and influence mechanisms are concerned. …”
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The End of Empires and the Consequences in the Balkan Peninsula by Božidar Jezernik

“…They had to reorganise themselves on national lines if they were hold their own at all in modern international politics because nationality was the contemporary basis of Western states and, owing to the ascendancy of the West in the world, the relations of non-Western peoples to each other and to Western powers had to approximate to the forms which the Western world took for granted. …”
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Pozicija mezhdunarodnogo soobshhestva po voprosu «vosstanovlenija» nezavisimosti Baltijskih respublik [The position of international community on the restoration of independence of... by Portnyagina Maria

“…As a result of internal contradictions in the USSR, Baltic leaders managed to achieve independence without any effective support from western powers. The research significance of this study lies in a diverse selection of sources and a new formulation of the problem of Baltic independence. …”
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Islamic Resurgence and the Twenty-First Century by Hussin Mutalib

“…There were some exceptions to such a negative atti­tude and response. but by and large such a wariness had permeated the thinking of many non-Muslims, including western powers and the non­Muslim world generally. This mindset lingers until today as the world approaches the arrival of the twenty-first century-manifest, for instance. in the "clash of civi­lization" thesis postulated by the well-known Harvard professor, Samuel Hun-tington recently. …”
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“To Cross into a War Should be Difficult” by Angelo Arminio

“…I use Homi Bhabha’s concept of hybridity to situate the protagonist Haris Abadi, a former Iraqi interpreter who acquired American citizenship, as well as many of the characters living in the borderland as transcultural characters influenced by European and American imperialism who struggle to find their place in the world, all unfortunate victims of an imagined line—or, in Gloria Anzaldúa’s words, “unnatural boundary”—drawn by Western powers a century earlier. Through their hybrid nature they pose an inherent challenge to traditional notions of citizenship and belonging and expose the imperialist practices at work in and around the Syrian civil war. …”
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Status‐Seeking Through Disaster Relief: India and China’s Response to Turkey–Syria Earthquakes by Dhanasree Jayaram, Lina Gong, Manaswini Dahagam Srivatsav

“…Disaster relief cooperation can be viewed through the lenses of the logics of both appropriateness and consequences. As “non-Western” powers, they have conventionally been known to contest disaster relief norms perceived by them as Western. …”
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The Conflict in Syria: Key Issues and Consequences on the International Market of Crude Oil by Mariana Papatulică

“…At the end of August 2013, the international prices of Brent crude rose to a 17-month high ($ 117.8 /barrel) as Western powers, mainly USA, readied a military strike against Syria, and traders and analysts cited concerns over stability in the Middle East. …”
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From “Greater Europe” to “Greater Eurasia”: Status concerns and the evolution of Russia’s approach to alignment and regional integration by Andrej Krickovic, Igor Pellicciari

“…Russia’s approach to alignment and regional integration has evolved dramatically—from a focus on the West and disinterest and neglect of regional integration in the 1990s, to vigorous efforts to reintegrate the post-Soviet space under Russian leadership in the period between 2009 and 2014, to forming a “Greater Eurasia” that transcends the post-Soviet space and includes China and other non-Western powers (such as Turkey, India, and Iran) today. …”
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The Evolving Paradigms of Military Interventions and China: Lessons from Global Centre-Periphery Relations by Nenad Stekić

“…Evidence, including the economic rise of non-Western powers,the politicomilitary ascendance of Russia and China, and the growing prevalence of asymmetric threats, signals a shift from a unipolar to a multipolar global system. …”
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