Region: Arctic

On November 21, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a roundtable, “The Arctic as a Magnet for Non-Regional Actors.”

Indonesia’s interest in the Arctic is unequivocally non-territorial, instead driven by existential vulnerability stemming from climate change and geo-economic necessity stemming from geopolitical shifts

On August 25, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and Beijing Club for International Dialogue organized a roundtable “China-Russia Relations: Arctic Dialogue”

The expansion in the Northern direction offered the nation a variety of unique opportunities, but it also created numerous challenges that other Europeans never confronted

The Island America that has grown in all respects will be able to give less, but will become more demanding. This is exactly what Russia or China need, from a strategic perspective

The possibility of Lapland becoming a central NATO stronghold in Northern Europe would be a new major chapter in the alliance's “Arctic pivot”.

Interview with Rabia Kalfaoglu, Assistant Professor of IR at Recep Tayyip Erdogan University in Rize

Interview with Dr Jawahar Vishnu Bhagwat

The ICE alliance has more geopolitical and geostrategic rationale than economic

Interview with Raj Kumar Sharma, Senior Research Fellow at the NatStrat, India

From April 25-27, 2024, Saint Petersburg hosted the Second Saint-Petersburg Congress on International Studies “Global and Regional Challenges in the Changing World,” which was organized by the Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University

The Three Poles project has very real prospects to become a kind of “integrator” and “driver” of BRICS for the foreseeable future