... RIAC expert,
Andrey Zagorsky
, Ph.D. in History, Head of the Department of Disarmament and Confl ict
Resolution, Center for International Security, Primakov National Research
Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of
... ... restoration of partnership with Russia on the one hand, and NATO,
the U.S. and the EU on the other. Relations are built according to a CSTO-NATO
format. The main objective is to provide mutual security guarantees and joint
countermeasures against terrorism, extremism,...
... possible on a bilateral or even trilateral level, suggesting the need for pan-regional engagement.
Regional cooperation on Afghanistan has been discussed both by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), whose leaders, Russia and China, are political heavyweights that are in a position to unite regional forces for a future Afghanistan settlement. After the official end of the ISAF mission, Afghanistan’s recent trajectory is upsetting the ...
... re-energized national interest-based rivalries and re-emerging blocs, OSCE remains the only organization that is trusted – more or less – by all participating states. Merely because other security organizations, be it the US-led NATO or Russia-led CSTO, are deemed as representative of the political aspirations of a narrow group at best and serving national interests of the leading states at worst. In other words, regardless of criticisms,
trust
is the capital the organization still possesses against ...
