When It Comes to U.S. Relationships in the Middle East, Expect a Lot More Change in Coming Years and Decades.
By Brian E. Frydenborg, originally published January 5th, 2015
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2014 has certainly been a year of change. While an ostensible explanation for this would be the...
How the Obama Administration Removed Iraq’s Largest Political Obstacle
Originally published Nov. 2nd, 2014
How Did It Come To This?
At some point during Obama’s second term of his presidency, he and his Administration realized that Nuri Kamal al-Maliki was part of the problem, not part of the solution. It did not help that when the administration realized this, violence in Iraq was increasing to levels not seen since the height of the near-civil-war experienced in 2006-2007 during...
How and why did you decide to become an interpreter?
One usually decides what one wants to be and what profession to follow in eighth or ninth grade at school. This was my case. I went to an ordinary school and my first English teacher was my mother (she taught English at school). But I was not really in for languages until my sixth or maybe even seventh school year. It came to me later, but it was serious and when the time came to apply for college, I chose the Foreign Languages Institute (Inyaz)...
On November 27, 2014, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov made a report on the role of public diplomacy in international crisis settlement at the international conference “
Power and Influence: New Forms of Diplomacy
” held in Paris by the
Maison de la Radio
and
College d'Etudes Mondiales
of the La Fondation Maison des sciences de ...
... were the prime conduits of dialogue between the superpowers. Not so these days. Sergey Lavrov and John Kerry have met many times during the past four months, and have spoken even more often. Occasionally, the two presidents also engage in telephone diplomacy. What the absence of a resident ambassador means today is that the government responsible for such a vacancy deprives itself of day-to-day contact with senior figures in the other country, and this limits its understanding of the host nation's ...
La Belgique ne regrette rien (Belgium has no regrets) by Edith Wharton
Not with her ruined silver spires,
Not with her cities shamed and rent,
Perish the imperishable fires
That shape the homestead from the tent.
Wherever men are staunch and free,
There shall she keep her fearless state,
And homeless, to great nations be
The home of all that makes them great.
Waking up in sunny and hot Moscow with a smile on my face and feeling by the way even more patriotic then before. Yesterday evening...
... student and will be written for everybody that is interested in International relations. To start off the adventure, allow me to introduce myself as a Belgian citizen in the heart of the Russian Federation.
Currently I am a student at Geneva School of Diplomacy majoring in International Relations and Diplomacy. I always been quite studious and appreciate the opportunities to further my skills and knowledge in the area of negotiations, communication and security studies. Russian International Affairs ...
Western politicians now understand that, for the first time, Russia has decided to act as it sees fit, leaving no space for compromise with Europe or the United States, because Ukraine is so important to Moscow that it is in no mood for formalities.
The West is not used to this, so it is trying to force Russia to return to the behavioral model that it adhered to for so long. Russia responds by reminding everyone, in case they forgot, how much is at stake here.
They are still capable of turning America...
... Russia’s population and elite. They have been vigorously fighting everything associated with the West, while in fact opposing advanced and effective practices although the “threat” from the West, even a spiritual one, is minuscule.
DIPLOMACY VICTORIES
Apart from luck, there is something else, more material – a tough policy and skillful diplomacy that help strengthen positions in the best possible way – that is also one of the main sources of Russia’s international ...
... with us in his
interview for RIAC
only a few weeks ago. It is always difficult to say good-bye to people like Yuri Dubinin. But his memory will live on. Here are the few materials Yuri Vladimirovich prepared in cooperation with the RIAC.
The Art of Diplomacy
On the Diplomatic Art
RIAC expresses its condolences to the family and friends of Yuri Dubinin.
