Bøger af Blagovest Georgiev

The war Russia waged in Ukraine appears strange in many respects ¿ one witnesses teetering operations from both sides, tedious pitch battles Russia and Ukraine strive to exhaust each other with, exchange of cautious infrastructure destroying strikes as if both fear to not go too far, etc. On the other hand, this is a ¿classic¿ limited or re-calibrating war as Kissinger would define it, at that, one of the sides is a super nuclear power. One cannot comprehend it outside the nuclear context that engages America and Russia. The only possible alternative to avoid the Armageddon is a balance of power solution, to say, a new world order that takes into account legitimate Russiäs geostrategic interests in realpolitik sense. The gist of the problem is that Russia has to achieve strategic goals through a limited conventional war. The critical question comes to the fore by itself ¿ is Putin intent to seriously or, even so, does not he lack capacity to carry an unqualified victory over Ukraine?

This is a Malthusian book. Since its first publishing in 1798 his famous Essay on the Principles of Population has risen many questions, triggered harsh critiques and shed doubt on humans' hopes of cloudless and prosperous future. The more humanity relies on the civilization gains such as mass production and mass consumption the more manifest become the civilization's shaky groundworks. Simple but increasingly tormenting questions evolve: Are not people too numerous to keep sustainable, i.e. environment sparing, economy? Is not the very mass consumption based model of economic growth the main cause of unsustainable economic and social development and, hence, the main driving force of rising food insecurity? Based on Lester Brown's brilliant methodology the book attempts to put a slightly different spin on his mathematically sound food equation when handling the issue of absolute and relative food security/insecurity. The analysis produces a good example of how a world proven methodology can and should be applied to food security issues of Bulgaria - by its formal status an EU member; by its actual status a poor country, sharing the food security concerns of the developing world.

The UN is running aground. It manifests phenomenal ineffectiveness and inefficiency. Reform it is a top priority task, but what should one start with? It is highly likely that the subsequent ¿reforming project¿ will follow the fate of previous ones. The issue boils down to the organization¿s founding principles¿ irrelevance rather than poor managerial arrangements. Therefore, reform the UN must be tantamount to revisiting its basics. Revisit its basics would lead up to matching collective security premises with interest-power-based politics that is usually known as realpolitik. The outcome of such a showdown would not be consoling for collective-security order. The latter may prove quite notional as rebuffed by the factual world of fierce interest clashes among states. May the ascendancy of realism in politics cause the demise of the collective security concept itself? Certainly yes. If so, will not the UN prove redundant in a balance-of-power-seeking international environment?

The book tries to shed some new light on the origin of the present mass terrorist movements all over the world. Terrorism¿s deep-seated roots are sought in the nature of the present liberal system of production, market arrangements and political representation. Spread under the veil of ¿universal modern civilization¿ based on materialistic selfishness the liberal system destroys traditional communal channels of communication and ways of life both with societies ¿exporting¿ and ¿importing¿ its dispensation. Materialistic selfishness generates anomic individuals who, relapsing to moral relativism in extreme, prove incapacitated to stand what Fromm has defined as ¿horror of separateness¿. These individuals do consist of authentic grass root of mass terrorist activities. The use of armed force is a necessary but quite a limited in its effectiveness means to fight back terrorism. Terrorism has replaced Communism as the enemy; terrorism has been viewed as the ¿absolute evil¿. But what if the ¿absolute enemy¿ of terrorism was seen as human? Everything would change and, primarily and foremost, combating terrorism would start from healing our own home.