It isn't only sports. European scientist friends of mine recently told me that they've been forced by their respective countries to cease collaborating with Russian colleagues.
Time was, science was recognized as orthogonal to geopolitics. Scientific collaboration continued across the Iron Curtain throughout the Cold War. Not only is bas…
It isn't only sports. European scientist friends of mine recently told me that they've been forced by their respective countries to cease collaborating with Russian colleagues.
Time was, science was recognized as orthogonal to geopolitics. Scientific collaboration continued across the Iron Curtain throughout the Cold War. Not only is basic research of no importance to power politics, allowing such collaboration provides crucial points of contact that keep the lines of communication open.
Now, however, everything must be subordinated to political expediency.
It isn't only sports. European scientist friends of mine recently told me that they've been forced by their respective countries to cease collaborating with Russian colleagues.
Time was, science was recognized as orthogonal to geopolitics. Scientific collaboration continued across the Iron Curtain throughout the Cold War. Not only is basic research of no importance to power politics, allowing such collaboration provides crucial points of contact that keep the lines of communication open.
Now, however, everything must be subordinated to political expediency.