... concrete recommendations on some of the world’s most pressing security challenges, from de-escalating nuclear tensions and fighting terrorism to cybersecurity and managing global migration patterns.
This year RIAC will be a partner with Friends of Europe in the global online brainstorm “Debating Security Plus”.
The online debating aims to yield concrete recommendations on some of the world’s most pressing security challenges, from de-escalating nuclear tensions and fighting terrorism to cybersecurity ...
How and when can the USA, Europe and Russia move forward from impasse and start to rebuild the more rational forms of relationship which would suit the interests of all?
“…the American, Soviet, and British governments did indeed try to bring the monster [nuclear weapons] under control....
Russia could become an equal co-author of a new security system in the Baltic region and beyond
US President Donald Trump's ... ... quality of relations between the two countries. The passing of ™ the bill marks the final formalisation of a new bipolarity in Europe. From f now on, mutual deterrence will be the key component of Russia's relations with the West. This does not preclude ...
On July 11, RIAC hosted a closed meeting on security challenges and prospects for cooperation between Russia and the EU in the Middle East and North Africa.
On July 11, RIAC hosted a closed meeting on security challenges and prospects ... ... and North Africa.
The event was opened by Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Fredrik Wesslau, Director of the Wider Europe Programme at ECFR.
The experts discussed regional actors’ stances in the Middle East conflicts, as well as Russian and ...
The ELN-RIAC Special Report
A new Special Report edited by Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and European Leadership Network (ELN) assesses the damage to EU-Russia relations after three years of crisis.
Featuring Russian and European experts, the report presents their analysis on fundamental aspects of deteriorating EU-Russia relations, including ...
... evolution of strategies, possibilities for Russian and Western rapprochement, external challenges, and untraditional threats to the European security.
The conference was marked by the following speakers: Aleksey Gromyko, Director of the Institute of Europe (RAS), RIAC member, RAS associate member; Andrey Zagorsky, Head of the Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies of the Center for International Security at Y. Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO); Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General; Sergey Rogov, Academy Fellow, RIAC member, Scientific Director of the RAS Institute of US and Canadian Studies.
On May 12, 2015, US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Sochi, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov. The significance of Kerry’s visit should ... ... political differences? Aside from the crisis in Ukraine, what else was discussed?
Dmitry Danilov
, PhD, Head of the Department of European Security at the Institute of Europe at the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert, shares his commentary.
The context ...
The 2015 Riga Security Seminar devoted to the problems of preserving and strengthening security in Europe in the context of the Ukrainian crisis took place on April 9–10. The seminar was organized by the
Latvian Institute ... ... government officials and the heads of NGOs from Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as by EU and NATO representatives. Speeches were given by the ...
RIAC Report #16
The dramatic developments in Ukraine in 2014 have once again demonstrated the relevance of the cooperative crisis management tools and mechanisms of the OSCE.
Issues of strengthening and reforming the OSCE are once again part of the European agenda.
The 40th anniversary of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe represents an important milestone in the development of the organization and provides an occasion for a frank discussion about the problems ...
On September 25, 2014, Russian International Affairs Council and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly held the international ... ... Strengthening the OSCE" with participation of the OSCE PA representatives, top European politicians and civil society leaders, Russian parliamentarians and key experts... ... practical politics. The "Helsinki+40" project is a platform for discussing international security and scenarios for building a new security architecture.
The seminar...
