From a humanist and democratic point of view, it makes sense to recognize these “de facto” states on a case-by-case basis as legitimate, for the sake of egalitarian representation. When the Soviet Union fell in 1991, the disintegration of a centralized nation into individual nation states did not occur without problems arising. Due to various…

As tensions increase dramatically due to the targeting of Russia, China and other nations which refuse to submit to the unipolar, "rules-based order" enforced by the U.S., U.K. and NATO, President Putin delivered a "stern warning", in his 17th annual State of the Nation address on April 21. While addressing Russian concerns over the…

The 2021 Indo-Russian Annual Summit could be a memorable occasion for cementing this partnership The year 1971 marked a cornerstone in the relations between India and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrey A. Gromyko, and his Indian counterpart, Sardar Swaran Singh, had just signed the Indo-Soviet Treaty of Peace, Friendship…

Author: Rajib Neupane, Research Trainee at AIDIA Hinduism is native to Indian subcontinent. However, due to centuries long Muslim rule and British colonization, today’s India is the product of Hindu, Muslim and British cultural diffusion. The constitution of modern India ratified during 1976 declares India as a secular nation. Nevertheless, practice…

We are passing through critical moments in humankind’s history, where wars, threats, killings, aggression, coercion, instability, extremism, and terrorim are common phenomena. The media is full of negative news and incidents. Such events like the situation in the Middle East, the issues surrounding Iran and Ukraine, the Syrian war, the fragile peace…

More than 25 years after the Dayton Accords which ended the largest genocide in Europe since World War II, modern day Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is still dominated by ethnocentric rhetoric and divisions along ethnic lines. The country is run by an inefficient government, captured by nationalist parties only looking for the betterment of a specific…

The Covid-19 pandemic has prompted many governments to foster domestic tourism and avoid long-distance holidays. In such circumstances, a number of citizens have (re-)discovered their homeland, with Muscovites having realized that Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus can be just as breathtaking as Mont Blanc and Vladivostok as exotic as Vancouver in Canada…

A well-known Russian policy shaper and Dean of one of Moscow's most prominent universities once described U.S.-Russia relations to me as "two people walking side by side with a gun to the head and a pistol to the hip."Indeed, in mainstream U.S. news cycles, the word "Russia" has come to be associated with sensationalist accusations…

31 March 2021The Deep Cuts Commission believes the United Kingdom’s new nuclear policies to increase the limit of its overall nuclear stockpile to 260 warheads and to make its nuclear posture more opaque complicate efforts to advance multilateral nuclear arms control and nonproliferation efforts. To reduce and reverse the negative implications of the…

Historical navalism, “navigare necesse est”
One of the America’s greatest military strategists, Alfred Thayer Mahan, in his book “The Influence of Sea Power upon History” about a hundred years ago, saw the value of world oceans and activity there as the foundation for national greatness and power. The pivot of this greatness was a powerful…

The last couple of years I have experienced Russian soft power firsthand through various NGO-programs. Here is what I learned – and how I was influenced.By Celine Emma la Cour, a student of Political Science at University of Copenhagen and member of the Meeting Russia Alumni Club since 2019.Original publication on picreadi.comThere are two kinds of…

The world is facing new global security threats. Great power and regional tensions are on the rise. The post-World War II security architecture is disintegrating. Six institutions from the U.S., Russia, and Europe join forces and ask the next generation of arms control negotiators to meet the security challenges of our time. What is ACONA? The Arms…