The project of Gjergj Kastrioti Scanderbeg about the establishment of a centralized Albanian state,2 collided with the Republic of Venice, an important factor of international relations, since the beginning. Scanderbeg and Venice split on one essential question, the attitude towards the Ottomans. Wh…

In the aftermath of Cold War, the system of United Nations (UN) Peace Missions assumed new proportions, by adjusting the nature of political developments, which characterized the international relations stage in this period. In the peace-keeping agenda of these missions, special focus was given to i…

To argue for the acknowledgment of the importance of historical materialism today when the cold-war and communism have for more than two decades ceased to exist it might create the perception of appearing dejected. Yet such a task which we attempt to take in this work is possible, if only because of…

Some of the most promising post-Cold War developments in Marxian thought have been stimulated by problems facing Marxists in Western Europe, to that extent they all seem to lay bare, intentionally or otherwise, the lacking of qualities, of Marx’s prediction. The most significant example of the failu…

In the fall of 1964, aged 23, the author of this chapter found himself at a 3M Company HQ meeting in Saint Paul (Minnesota) with some ten other international relations professionals. An elderly and just retired William McKnight, legendary founder of what even today is an evergreen success story of a…