Pascal Lottaz

Pascal Lottaz

Background and CV May 27, 2025 Dr Pascal Lottaz joined TFF as an Associate in May 2025 and became a board member in November of the same year. Very short bio Dr. Pascal Lottaz is an Associate Professor at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Law and Hakubi Center (Japan). He researches neutrality in international relations […]

Before We Think: Culturally Encoded

Before We Think: Culturally Encoded

On the invisible codes of culture that shape our worldviews long before memory or reason. Gordon DumoulinTFF Board member May 26, 2025 This analysis was initially published on the author’s “China21 Journal” which contains several analyses of related issues, China-Western relations and how to increase knowledge and mutual understanding. Last week, we picked up our […]

Living with genocide

Living with genocide

Biljana Vankovska TFF board member May 19, 2025 If we’re being honest, with few exceptions, most of us have stopped counting the days since the genocide in Gaza began. We’ve also lost track of the death toll—especially the number of children. We can offer excuses: being overwhelmed with our personal and professional lives, the sheer […]

If we did learn from history, this would be one lesson (but we don’t).

If we did learn from history, this would be one lesson (but we don’t).

AI generated imagine on Freepik Jan Oberg May 7, 2025 A 2-minute “appetiser” for an extended interview by China’s CGTN. More to come!

Cooperative Multipolar System: In Quest of a New World Order

Cooperative Multipolar System: In Quest of a New World Order

A new, innovative, and visionary anthology about the world that is unfolding behind the doom and gloom that the media and politicians try to foist on you. It’s edited by Bijana Vankovska, Richard Sakwa, Weiwei Zhang and Toni Mileski and obviously provocative in the eyes of some (lesser minds). Biljana Vankovska and Toni Mileski April […]

SIPRI’s ongoing decay from peace to mainstream military security – its new director

SIPRI’s ongoing decay from peace to mainstream military security – its new director

Naturally, nobody cares about that fraud in today’s Sweden. Jan Oberg April 15, 2025 SIPRI is the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, established in 1966. Read about it here and see how it has twisted its aims to not include the words ‘peace research.’ Because here is what it should do according to § 2 […]

Have militarist ‘culture,’ enemy images, and threats of war become the unifying force in our society?

Have militarist ‘culture,’ enemy images, and threats of war become the unifying force in our society?

Jan Oberg April 10, 2025 Today is 9 April. It marks the 80th Anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Denmark. Denmark’s Radio reports today on how the country’s war museums have become ‘attractions’ where people queue to get in and go on guided tours, and ticket sales are booming. Of course, it never occurs to anyone […]

On the Unavoidable, Ongoing Decline – and Fall – of the US Empire

On the Unavoidable, Ongoing Decline – and Fall – of the US Empire

Johan Galtung – 1930-2024 March 31, 2025 – This analysis was written in 2003 and expanded upon in 2015. 1.  Definitions and Hypotheses: An Overview Definition: An empire is a transboundary Center-Periphery system, in macro-space and in macro-time, with a culture legitimizing a structure of unequal exchange between center and periphery: Empires have different profiles.  […]

Jan Oberg on Russia’s and China’s national TV

Jan Oberg on Russia’s and China’s national TV

February 28, 2025 Every few days, I was on TV in Russia and China – Russia TV1 and CCTV – the latter as part of a much longer studio discussion and documentary about Ukraine, Russa and the EU. February 14, 2025 – about half an hour on Russia’s leading TV Channel – 1TV – a […]

Trump Caught the EU Off Guard

Trump Caught the EU Off Guard

Jan Oberg February 21, 2025 How amazing! The Danish government seemed unprepared for the eventuality that President Trump, if elected, would insist once again on getting Greenland – and a few other “things.” Who was asleep – or much too occupied with hating Russia and helping Ukraine to see what was coming? Secondly, Trump – […]