Tag: Diplomacy
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The Kremlin School of Negotiation: Silence, Psychological Pressure, and the Politics of Power
Igor Ryzov’s The Kremlin School of Negotiation is not merely a business manual on hard bargaining. It is a strategic anatomy of silence, pressure, emotional control, and power at the negotiation table. This essay reads Ryzov’s book through the lenses of Soviet diplomacy, psychological leverage, business strategy, and ethical risk. From Andrei Gromyko’s “Mr. Nyet”…
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Five Books to Understand the Geopolitical System: Power, Empire, Diplomacy, Pandemic, and the Return of History
This essay examines five important books that help readers understand the geopolitical system through history, power, diplomacy, disease, empire, and trade routes. From Henry Every’s piracy and the rise of global capitalism to Vladimir Putin’s strategic worldview, from Ukraine’s diplomatic struggle to the Covid-19 pandemic and the Silk Roads, these books reveal that geopolitics is…