This article was originally published at Russia Direct.
 
It is now clear that China’s struggle to prevent the internationalization of the South China Sea dispute has been a complete and utter failure. Non-claimant states such as India and Japan, not to mention the U.S., all have their eyes on (and sometimes their hands in) the time bomb…

The only alternatives to this deal are the destructive status quo of continued stalemate and standoff that destabilizes the whole region or even more open military conflict that endangers everyone in the region (including Israel). Ignore the naysayers and give this deal a chance.

 

by Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, and…

By Alexey Ilin & Eugenia Shuvaeva
 
“The 19th century was a century of China’s humiliation, the 20th was a century of China’s revival, and the 21st will be the century of China’s domination.” This saying by unknown Chinese politician perfectly reflects the perception of history by the Chinese people. While…

Author: Kazushige Kobayashi, PhD student in International Relations at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland The single most important lesson world leaders learned from the Ukrainian crisis is that a policy of exclusive cooperation would be neither effective nor sustainable in the long run. In the…

“This is not the end.  It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.”  So said Winston Churchill forging strategy with FDR against the brutal Nazis who occupied continental Europe and northern Africa at the early stage of WWII.
 
Let´s hope that now, at a time when Western…

This piece was originally published on Russia Beyond the Headlines. 
 
When Moscow was celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War in early May, it was the pompous military parade and Xi Jinping’s visit that attracted all the attention of global media. Those following Southeast Asian affairs also…

 JVLV:  Together with my partner and wife, Leni, I am responding to Elizabeth Pond´s four “M” scenarios – Mearsheimer, McCain, Motyl and Merkel -- for resolving the trenchant Ukraine crisis.  Sadly, none of these scenarios yet present a comprehensive and workable solution. 
 
 John Mearsheimer…

This article tries to understand hidden opportunity on untapped Russian IT/E-Commerce sector, and also proposes if this can be strategized to act as a catalyst during current economic downturn for the country’s revival. This will be first of the series of article on Russia economy focusing on E-Growth strategy to overcome its existing financial…

 Why hide it?  I was disappointed.  Sadly the Washington celebration of the 70th anniversary  victory in Europe, much less dignified  than the one  in London the same day, displayed old weaponry and battles involving not only the European theater but  the Pacific one.  Then the  Moscow one a day later…

Good idea, bad timing?
It's not clear whether the world's worst drought in over a century provided impetus for the agriculture ministers of the BRICS nations to gather in Brasilia in March and launch a manifesto designed to make the group a key player in the global food security regime. But they did. Now the world is waiting.
 
From a…

In recent months, Russian officials have repeatedly emphasized Russian sovereignty and autonomy. Russia indeed is not a part to an integration project or a military alliance that dismantle its bundle of sovereign rights. There are no foreign troops on the Russian territory and no-one dictates economic policy to Moscow. Vladimir Putin has recently…

           The Jihadist terror has now extended from Europe across the Atlantic to North Garland Texas.  Dutch politician Geert Wilders, the man on an Al Qaeda hit list for his daring film, “Filna,” was the keynote speaker at an art exhibit and cartoon competition portraying the…