At the 2014 BRICS summit in Brasília, which was attended by Russian president Vladimir Putin, there was a lot of buzz in the Brazilian media that Argentina was next in line to join the organization. None of it was directly attributed to president Dilma Rousseff.
 
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Interview with professor Sonin, esteemed economist of the University of Chicago
  
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Foreign policy constitutes one of the strong pillars of every nation-state; I wouldn’t say that is the most important (this depends from state to state), but for sure, is one of the dominants. Hence, the foreign policy decision making process has to serve as link between domestic intentions and external actions…

THE MUSLIM-IZATION OF EUROPE:  REPORTS FROM GERMANY By Jiri and Leni Friedman Valenta, 9-12-2015
 
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JVLV:  Divining Putin's Intentions: Why We Must Lose "Strategic Patience"


Sep 6, 2015



 PREFACE

Our just published essay in the October 2015 Aspen Review is below, but we felt some background would be interesting to the reader and further…

The downing of the Malaysian airplane MH17 in July 2014 marked a clear turning point in the context of the Ukrainian crisis. The EU leaders put aside their divisions and adopted a resolute approach on Russia for the first time. Russia’s partial isolation, the sanctions’ escalation and the crucial deterioration of the relation with the EU…

Picture by Andrey Kortunov, Director General, Russian International Affairs Council.   European migration management: mission impossible? Image credit: tammyluciano.com.br  Want to be published? Send your submissions to: stuff@russiancouncil.ru 

The creation of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) between Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan (thus covering 85 per cent of the former Soviet Union) has proved to be a major global geopolitical event, outlining a road map for the future of the Eurasian Economic Space. The EAEU represents a common market with a combined GDP of more than…

Described as movement of people to foreign countries for education, advanced training and acquiring new skills, intellectual migration is becoming a huge problem for Russia. The process can be both short- and long-term, up to change of citizenship, and engulfs students, young specialists and many others willing to become more knowledgeable and…

In one of the biggest military engagement USA is involved in after second world war is in Afghanistan. The War in Afghanistan began on 7 October 2001, as the armed forces of the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, and the Afghan United Front (Northern Alliance) launched Operation Enduring Freedom. Following the September 11 attacks on…

 
 
JVLV:  Budapest 8-3O-2015!  Déjà vu!  Some of us are old enough to recall that the crisis of European communism intensified in Budapest, September 1989, when  thousands of East German refugees were stormed the Budapest train station trying to escape, via Austria, to West Germany. The final straw was…

 That many in the EU countries don’t support the sanctions’ escalation with Russia should not come as a surprise. Besides their evident lack of effectiveness in changing Russia’s behavior, economic backlashes are convincing people that they might not be the most appropriate instrument, especially under the light of the difficult…