... soil) remains a driver of these threats and risks. Furthermore, the current geopolitical turbulence, coupled with Afghanistan’s strategic geographic location, offers a high potential for the country to be used as a stage for a global conflict between Russia and the U.S. with its allies, between the U.S. and China, or between Iran and the collective West.
Russian-Chinese Strategic Cooperation to Ensure Security in Afghanistan Following U.S. Withdrawal. RIAC Report
In the present circumstances, the ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
...
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 ...
Has the situation on the Korean Peninsula become more dangerous, and how should Russia proceed given these circumstances?
Throughout 2024, the two Korean states have fundamentally changed their positions on Korean unification and their relations with each other. A new situation has emerged on the Korean Peninsula that affects the ...
Damascus and Ankara sharing more and more interests
The leaders of Syria and Turkey have recently made frequent public declarations of their readiness to start the process of normalizing bilateral relations soon, with Russia as a mediator. Syrian President Bashar Assad, while receiving Russian President's Special Envoy on Syria Alexander Lavrentiev on June 26, 2024, acknowledged that he viewed the reconciliation positively. In turn, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ...
... indicate India’s desire to take a more proactive position in European affairs, or does it show how India’s policy of strategic autonomy has reached its limits following Modi’s warm reception in Moscow on June 8?
Alexey Kupriyanov:
New Agenda of Russia-India Relations
Growing Interest in Peace
Since early 2024, right up to Ukraine’s offensive in Kursk in early August of this year, Moscow had—or as some argue, still has—the upper hand in the situation in Ukraine. In turn, this weakened ...
... difficulties, including the U.S. plan to deploy intermediate-range missiles in the Asia–Pacific, which Washington views as a means of deterring China at the regional level.
Zhao Huasheng, Andrey Kortunov:
Prepare for the Worst and Strive for the Best. Russia’s and China’s Perceptions of Developments in International Security
Innovative systems and disruptive technologies
At the short-lived consultations in Geneva that took place over the summer and fall of 2021, the main disagreement between the parties was that the U.S. proposed reducing both strategic ...
In the 21st century, the whole idea of junior and senior partners looks outdated and even archaic. True international partnerships are based on mutual respect, empathy and a carefully calibrated balance of interests
When the current dynamics of Russia-China relations is discussed, the conversation often boils down to the concept of a "senior-junior partnership." A popular view—especially in the West—is that with more cooperation between the two nations, Russia is gradually, but ...
... Russian-Chinese mutual commitment not to be the first to use nuclear weapons against each other also plays a significant role.
Zhao Huasheng, Andrey Kortunov:
Prepare for the Worst and Strive for the Best. Russia’s and China’s Perceptions of Developments in International Security
There is also a Russian-Chinese agreement on notifications of launches of ballistic missiles and space launch vehicles. It is possible to use such mechanisms in the future to reduce regional and global tensions involving new states. However, current U.S. policy is not ...
