Three possible scenarios of a political solution to the Ukrainian crisis: cold war, cold peace, and peaceful coexistence . Today we witness the realization of the last, intermediate scenario, which, in addition to everything else, is a Soviet legacy. In the Soviet times the peaceful coexistence theory was tested in the USSR as a form of continuation…

Given the state of current Russian relations with the West over the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, one could be forgiven for considering President Putin’s visit to Mongolia on the third of September to be an oddly timed affair. Certainly for for many, even in Russia, the state of Mongolia is not a primary concern in terms of global politics. However…

An American and two Russians have landed safely in Kazakhstan after 5 ½ months in space… and to think there is no cooperation toward a more peaceful world between the United States and Russia.
 
Meanwhile, private citizens of Qatar, and other friends of the United States, have been financing Hamas and ISIS. Now, as Washington…

The decision of Ukraine’s president Viktor Yanukovysh not to sign the Association Agreement with the European Union was the starting point of the still on-going Ukrainian crisis.  In this conflict, Russians and Ukrainians, who have historically had extremely close cultural ties, have been confronting each other. The western community, which…

The surrealism of the Ukrainian conflict continued last week, with the 28 members of the NATO alliance meeting in a cozy golf resort in Wales, United Kingdom, to discuss all of the supposedly egregious and disconcerting Russian maneuvers against Ukraine and demanding that Russia stop inviting further sanctions and pressure against itself, as British…

The Arctic Economic Council (AEC) is a new independent body established between the members of the Arctic Council (AC), the eight Arctic states, and the six Indigenous Peoples Organizations appointed Permanent Participants. The newly established AEC held its first meeting between September 1st and 3rd in Iqaluit, Canada.
 
 
 
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One of the main challenges for U.S. and Russian Foreign Policies, following the idea of a prominent American scientist Richard Haass, alongside with some other distinguished professors is that Foreign Policy begins at Home.
In 1971 a prominent Harvard philosopher J. Rawls published a book “A Theory of Justice”, where he pondered on the…

The difficulty of creating a strategy is that to do so you first have to do three things:  1.  Admit to the public that the threat exists, 2. Correctly define its nature, and 3. Assess its scope.  Mr. Obama, having known of ISIS for four years, appears to have kept the secret to himself.  It´s consistent with other efforts on…

Imagine you are on a gameshow, and are asked the following question: in which year did the Russian language internet -- commonly known as Runet-- begin? The answer, you could assume, is 1990, with the creation of Relcom. Unless its 1983, that is, with the San Francisco Moscow Teleport. Which would mean you aren’t accepting the 1972 Express…

Russia, as the fourth largest greenhouse-gas emitter in the world, and a major supplier of fossil fuels causing these emissions, played a decisive role in the enforcement of the Kyoto Protocol, the main instrument of global climate policy so far. Domestically, serious political measures to combat climate change have yet to be taken.  Thus…

Times and trends keep changing and as of today, climate change has become a salient issue associated to human security. Lots of policies have been meted out on different sectors in Nigeria with little attention to climate change. In the world today, climate change is taking serious and nations strive to mitigate its effect and see how the changes can…

Finland has become quite an active player in the current Ukrainian situation. The government has not only maintained an outspoken view against the violation of Ukraine’s territory, but also recently President Sauli Niinistö met with the presidents of both Russia and Ukraine. This stance is quite different from the cautious policies that…