Dr. Sam Vaknin
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Professional Experience & Positions
Areas of Expertise
Eastern Europe Mental Health Geopolitics and International Affairs Economics and Finance |
Qualifications/Education Background
Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, California, USA. Graduate of numerous courses in Finance Theory and International Trading. Certified E-Commerce Concepts Analyst by Brainbench. Certified in Psychological Counselling Techniques by Brainbench. Certified Financial Analyst by Brainbench. Full proficiency in Hebrew and in English. |
Brief Biography
Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He served as a columnist for Global Politician, Central Europe Review, PopMatters, Bellaonline, and eBookWeb, a United Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101.
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Publications Archive |
Whom Should the West Have Sided With?
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21 Jan 2010 |
Iraq, the Kurds, and Israel: Entwined Futures
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20 Dec 2009 |
Macedonia's great accomplishment is to have survived
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18 Dec 2009 |
Swine Flu as a Conspiracy
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12 Nov 2009 |
QUIZ: Who is This Politician? HINT: Not who you think!
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27 Oct 2009 |
Global Warming and Climate Change as Opportunities
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18 Oct 2009 |
Carbon-neutral Transport Systems: Are We Doing Enough?
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12 Oct 2009 |
Founding Fathers and The Character of States
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11 Oct 2009 |
Adolescent Cultures, Conflict, and History
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11 Oct 2009 |
Obama's Nobel Prize will Exacerbate His Narcissistic Tendencies
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09 Oct 2009 |
Should Communities be Allowed to Generate Their Own Power?
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25 Sep 2009 |
Attack on Iran: Israel Turns to Russia
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25 Jul 2009 |
Attack on Iran: Rift in the Military and the Role of Commandos
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19 Jul 2009 |
Attack on Iran to Include Ground Forces
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16 Jul 2009 |
Preparations for Attack on Iran Almost Complete
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10 Jul 2009 |
Greek Carrots in the Macedonian Salad?
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03 Jul 2009 |
Energy and Environmental Sustainability for Future Generations
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19 Jun 2009 |
How Multiculturalism Causes Conflict
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17 Jun 2009 |
Macedonians in Denial about the Name Issue Dispute with Greece
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05 Jun 2009 |
The Republic of North Macedonia and Palestine: Obama Loses Patience with Bush Allies
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03 Jun 2009 |
Self-defeating Environmentalism: The Case of Nuclear Energy Technologies
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31 May 2009 |
Israel, Obama, Iran, and Journalism
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26 May 2009 |
Alternative Energies and Other Fairy Tales
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25 May 2009 |
Money Laundering in A Changed World
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28 Apr 2009 |
Is Energy Security Desirable?
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11 Apr 2009 |
Iran's American Courtship Foretold
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31 Mar 2009 |
Minorities, Genocide, and Geopolitics in Modern Europe
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22 Feb 2009 |
The Hazards of Biofuels
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22 Feb 2009 |
Strong Men and Political Theatres - The "Being There" Syndrome
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19 Jan 2009 |
Gruevski's Macedonia, Greece, and Alexander the Great, History's Forgotten Madman
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06 Jan 2009 |
Human Trafficking in Macedonia and Kosovo
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22 Dec 2008 |
Maritime Piracy- Treasure Island Revisited
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06 Dec 2008 |
Notes on the Credit Crisis of 2007-9
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01 Nov 2008 |
The Greek-Macedonian Name Issue as a Moral Dilemma
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26 Oct 2008 |
Minorities or Immigrants? The Kven and Sami Peoples of Norway
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26 Oct 2008 |
Who Needs the European Dis-Union?
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13 Oct 2008 |
Free Markets are Dead?
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13 Oct 2008 |
It is Europe's and Asia's Turn Now
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12 Oct 2008 |
What Really Happened on September 11?
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07 Sep 2008 |
Democracy and Prosperity Don't Always Go Together
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07 Sep 2008 |
Greek-American Plan to Resolve Macedonia's Name Issue?
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26 Aug 2008 |
Georgian Lessons for Small Nations
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21 Aug 2008 |
Barack Obama - Narcissist or Merely Narcissistic?
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11 Aug 2008 |
Why Obama Will be Worse Than Bush
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27 Jul 2008 |
The False Maps of Maskirovka
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21 Jul 2008 |
What Determines the Price of Oil?
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05 Jul 2008 |
Nigerian Scams - Begging Your Trust in Africa
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24 Jun 2008 |
Intellectuals in Conflict Zones - The Balkans: Interview with Vladimir Chukov
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14 Jun 2008 |
Intellectuals in Conflict Zones - The Balkans: Interview with Ljubomir Danilov Frckoski
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14 Jun 2008 |
The Inversion of Colonial Roles
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12 Jun 2008 |
Crescent and Cross in the Balkans
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12 Jun 2008 |
Balkan Lessons
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26 May 2008 |
Arctic Lessons
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26 May 2008 |
A Taxonomy of Political Conflict In Central and Eastern Europe
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22 May 2008 |
The Cyrillic Alphabet as an Obstacle to Economic Development
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30 Apr 2008 |
The USA, Israels' Friendly Bully
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12 Apr 2008 |
America's Failure: Russia and Serbia
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12 Apr 2008 |
No American Security Guarantees for Macedonia?
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07 Apr 2008 |
NATO's Bucharest Summit
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31 Mar 2008 |
Greece and its Investments in the Balkans: Trojan Horse or Reliable Partner?
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12 Mar 2008 |
Secession, National Sovereignty, and Territorial Integrity
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02 Mar 2008 |
Private Armies and Private Military Companies (PMCs)
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01 Mar 2008 |
Kosovars and other Albanians - Why Great Albania is a Myth
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01 Mar 2008 |
The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism
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04 Feb 2008 |
The Economies of the Middle East
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25 Jan 2008 |
Affiliation and Morality
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06 Jan 2008 |
Organ Trafficking in Eastern Europe
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17 Dec 2007 |
Russia's Second Empire
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03 Dec 2007 |
Hawala, or the Bank that Never Was
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19 Nov 2007 |
The Conclave of Exclaves
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06 Nov 2007 |
The Emerging Water Wars
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17 Oct 2007 |
The Cost of Unification - German Lessons for Korea
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09 Oct 2007 |
KLA (UCK) - The Army of Liberation
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03 Oct 2007 |
Lights Out in the Balkans - Interview with Aleksandar Dimishkovski of BID Consulting, Macedonia
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27 Sep 2007 |
Happy Birthday, Macedonia!
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10 Sep 2007 |
The Insurgents and the Swastika
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06 Sep 2007 |
America, the Reluctant Empire
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03 Sep 2007 |
Macedonia's Ohrid Framework Agreement Six Years Later - Why the Agreement will Fail
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31 Aug 2007 |
Macedonia's Ohrid Framework Agreement Six Years Later - International Extortion
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31 Aug 2007 |
The Clash of Islam and Liberalism
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28 Aug 2007 |
Muslims - Europe's New Jews
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24 Aug 2007 |
The Black Hand
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16 Aug 2007 |
How Acts of Terror Lead to Tyranny and Dictatorships
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09 Aug 2007 |
VMRO (IMRO) - Macedonia to the Macedonians
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08 Aug 2007 |
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters in the Balkans
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03 Aug 2007 |
Just War
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01 Aug 2007 |
Published Books |
Macedonia: A Nation at a Crossroads
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Empire and War
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Putin's Russia
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The Belgian Curtain - Europe after Communism
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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
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After the Rain - How the West Lost the East
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