... accumulated experience can then be transformed into permanent institutions focused on a broader range of security issues.
Zhao Huasheng, Andrey Kortunov:
Prepare for the Worst and Strive for the Best. Russia’s and China’s Perceptions of Developments in International Security
An important issue of the new structure will be its functional orientation. NATO, in the past, emerged as an instrument to contain the USSR, and today the alliance has received a new life, trying to solve the problems of containing Russia. It is possible that the new security structure in Eurasia may also be tailored to the task ...
On April 3, 2024, the international multimedia press center of the Rossiya Segodnya media group hosted a roundtable discussion “NATO: 75 Years at the Forefront of Escalation,” marking the 75th anniversary of the alliance’s founding
On April 3, 2024, the international multimedia press center of the Rossiya Segodnya media group hosted a roundtable discussion “NATO: 75 Years ...
... in August 2008, that a precedent was set for revising the Belavezha accords, whereby the borders between the newly emerged post-Soviet sovereign entities were based on the dividing lines between the former Soviet republics. In essence, the process of NATO expansion was halted in this region because of the emergence of new post-Soviet states. Although, as the recent
visit
of Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to Baku, Tbilisi and Yerevan showed, the movement in this direction has not stopped....
... Founding Act, and so on. There was a surge of trade, investments, tourism and civil society interaction between the East and the West. Unfortunately, it turned out that the two sides had very different perceptions about very fundamental dimensions of international security and global governance.
In the West, they assumed that the future international system should have at its core primarily Western institutions—like NATO and the European Union—that would gradually expand and absorb former socialist nations of Central and Eastern Europe. The assumption was that the West would define the rules of the game within the new system, while the Rest would have to accept ...
... almost open nuclear game, but in different forms and with different objectives. Both Russia and the United States are well aware of the presence of the nuclear weapons factor in this conflict. Russia's main objective is to deter the United States and NATO from directly intervening in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The U.S., on the other hand, tends to believe that Russia will not or dare not use nuclear weapons and can therefore boldly provide military support to Ukraine. Both sides are at loggerheads,...
.... It is unclear, Mr. von der Schulenburg suggests, what positive outcome can be achieved through an escalation, and it is certain that it will not bring peace to Europe.
The conflict has evolved into what he believes is a struggle between Russia and NATO, with nuclear weapons becoming a critical factor in military planning. It is impossible to predict the limitations of such a “decisive battle,” beyond which a nuclear escalation might occur. In persisting with all-out warfare, European leaders,...
There is no way Ukraine and NATO can “win” the military confrontation against Russia, and the best-case scenario they can project is tying down Russia in an endless conflict
In welcoming Finland to NATO during a visit to Helsinki on June 2, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...
The world really needs to question is the very fundamental requirement and existence of “NATO” itself
On 4 April 2023, Finland formally became the 31st country of the NATO security alliance. Western scholars argue that Finland’s joining has further strengthened the Western collective alliance that would enable a greater security framework ...
... What used to be called the Nordic balance—having different security profiles, taking each other’s basic interests into account but not forming a Nordic alliance with uniform policies—has been incrementally demolished in consequence of the U.S./NATO provocative expansion since 1990 that broke all the well-documented promises made at the time by the West’s leaders to Mikhail Gorbachev about not expanding NATO one inch eastwards if he accepted a re-unified Germany in NATO.
The NATO-Russia
deadlock
...
The future of Japan cannot be based only on its partnerships with the US and NATO, as important as this partnership is for Tokyo. This future also depends on Japan's relations to its Eurasian neighbors
The recent international tour of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida turned out to be one of the most remarkable events of ...
