... Sustainable Development, Creating Common Home”
On September 21–22, 2024 Xian (China) hosted an International Forum of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Think Tanks “Promoting Sustainable Development, Creating Common Home”. The Institute of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia of the Chinese Academy of Social Science organized the event together with the Institute of Central Asian Studies of the Shaanxi Xueqian Normal University as we as with the China University of Petroleum. The forum ...
... Corridor reveal Tehran's displeasure with Moscow over the project, which connects Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan region to Azerbaijan proper through Armenian territory. Tehran focuses on one of the clauses of the international agreements signed by Armenia with Russia and Azerbaijan that ended the Second Karabakh War in late 2020, while turning a blind eye to other activities that pose a greater threat to its national security, such as the frequent joint military exercises between Washington and Yerevan, and ...
... primarily aimed at building a trilateral architecture of collective defense. The decision to set up the Alliance was taken after negotiations in Ouagadougou in early September 2023 between representatives of the three nations and a delegation from the Russian Defense Ministry, headed by Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov. In other words, Russia
played its role
in founding the AES, thereby assuming certain obligations to support the Alliance’s counterterrorism efforts.
The prospect of deeper ...
... powers has failed to provide a panacea: their position in the world has changed significantly over the past 30 years, and the most acute indirect conflict is taking place in maximum physical proximity to the main administrative and industrial centres of Russia. That is why many respectable observers now have some concerns about the correctness of the US strategy, which in its most general terms seeks to reproduce the logic and tactical skill of the previous confrontation with Russia in 1945-1991.
If ...
... theory of international relations, offering a compelling alternative to Western approaches, particularly the one proposed in Samuel Huntington’s
The Clash of Civilizations
[Huntington 1993]. It informed the idea of trilateral cooperation between Russia, China and India, implemented by Primakov and later embodied in the BRICS group. By now, the idea of multipolarity has been recognized in global political science, has entered the conceptual framework and the language of international diplomacy ...
... contradicting the basic world order imposed on everyone by the Americans. Which is that the laws and norms of the UN apply to everyone except to the US itself. And since this case is not taking place in the distant Amazon, but in a neighboring country to Russia, the nature of the Georgian phenomenon – and its prospects – cannot fail to pique our interest.
For now, Georgia is not an important enough prize for Russia’s main Western adversaries to spend significant resources on. But times are changing....
On September 9, 2024, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Synergia Foundation (Bangalore, India) and the Grandview Institution (Beijing, China) organised an online seminar ‘Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in the New World Order. Scenarios of Evolution’
On ...
On September 5, 2024, the delegation of the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy (UAE) visited the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)
On September 5, 2024, the delegation of the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy (UAE) visited the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC).
During the meeting, RIAC Director General Ivan Timofeev told the ...
... Hamas, which has an ambiguous reputation in the Arab world. Cairo does not hold it in high regard, and Egypt’s current military leadership, not without reason, draws parallels between Palestinian radicals and the Muslim Brotherhood movement (banned in Russia) at home, which has been driven deep underground, but was, alongside Israel, among the founding fathers of Hamas. Damascus has not forgotten that at the beginning of the Syrian civil war, Hamas sided with the political opposition rather than President ...
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Trump or Harris: Does it Matter for China?
The current state of international relations demonstrates a steady tendency towards the multiplication of deterrence tasks among the three key global centres of military power—the United States, China and Russia. Each of them has an increasing number of opponents. Moreover, the increase in their number, as well as the degree of confrontation, has its roots in the relatively favourable situation of the 1990s and early 2000s, when Washington, Beijing, and ...
