On November 1-2, 2015, a RIAC team made of Director General Andrey Kortunov, RAS Academician Vitaly Naumkin, Yuri Barmin, Vassily Kuznetsov, Ekaterina Stepanova and Elena Suponina, RIAC experts, took part in the Second Annual Abu Dhabi Strategic Debate (ADSD 2015), a key international platform for discussing regional and global security, as well as long-term trends in international relations and world economy.
On November 1-2, 2015, a RIAC team made of Director General Andrey Kortunov, RAS Academician Vitaly Naumkin, Yuri Barmin, Vasily Kuznetsov, Ekaterina Stepanova and Elena Suponina, RIAC experts, took part in the Second Annual Abu Dhabi Strategic Debate (ADSD 2015), a key international platform for discussing regional and global security, as well as long-term trends in international relations and world economy.
Sponsored by the Emirates Policy Center, the event was attended by almost 500 diplomats, experts, journalists, public figures and businesspersons from the Middle East and other regions, who focused on Syria, Arab-Israeli conflict, Yemen, governance in Iraq, etc. The participants also covered the complicated processes of the Arab Awakening and new models for Islamic modernization and regional integration.
On the margins, RIAC representatives held consultations with several Middle Eastern think tanks on possibilities for institutional partnership.
