I shall be at JW3 in person tomorrow, but you can still view via zoom.
AMUR RIVER: LAND OF THE BLACK DRAGON: A story of geopolitics
A land far away of which we know little
A few facts
Treaty of Nerchinck 1689
Treaty of Aigun 1858 % Convention of Peking 1860
Sin-Russian Border Clash 1969
A Case Study: The Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Today & Concluding Words
The Amur River by Colin Thubron ( a brilliant travel book pub 2021)
Democracy finally arrived in Germany in the wake of a Civil War that immediately followed the breakdown after World War One. It arrived in the form of The Weimar Republic (named after the city where
Kaiser Wilhelm II C.Clarke The Sleepwalkers (road to war) C.Clarke Ring of Steel (Germany and Austria at war) A.Watson The Three Emperors M.Carter Berlin (in 20th Century) S.M
Once Bismarck had been dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1890, Germany's Foreign Policy took a distinct turn to what, in the end, became the policy of Weltpolitik, that is world politics; the attempt