U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Estonia on September 3, 2014. The visit will mark one of the key stages in the preparation of the NATO Summit in Wales (which will take place on September 4–5) and partial redesign of the European security architecture.
After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, NATO experienced a goal-setting crisis. Instead of communism, NATO’s enemies were now global terrorism and ‘antidemocratic regimes’. However, the Ukrainian crisis brought the Alliance...
... Bundeswehr in actions outside the German state have yet to be formalised. It is assumed that the aforementioned obligations are above all to be honoured with regard to the USA, which constantly insists on more vigorous participation by its allies in international security actions
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The new government coalition favours the country’s more active involvement in resolving international conflicts, including by military means.
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This signalled a transition to a new foreign ...
Interview with Ambassador Vitaly Vorobyov
Interview
We met with Vitaly Vorobyov, SCO Advisor and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, to discuss the potential of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in resolving problems of regional security, its role in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of ISAF, the Silk Way project initiated by China, Russia's future SCO presidency and many other issues.
Your Excellency, in your article "
The SCO as the Growing Ruler of the Heartland: How...
On July 31, 2014, websites of the Russian International Affairs Council,
European Leadership Network
,
Polish Institute of International Affairs
and
International Strategic Research Organization in Ankara
placed the
statement of Task Force on Cooperation in Greater Europe
on mechanisms for crisis settlement in Europe in the Ukraine context.
Authored by RIAC President Igor Ivanov, former UK Defence Secretary Des Browne, former Polish Foreign Minister Adam Daniel Rotfeld, as well as by Ambassador...
... normal part of the ongoing political game.
Flexibility and Initiative
Improving the efficiency of a pan-European organization is not easy. Given the repeated instances of the bloc mentality, this has become an even more difficult problem in the field of international security. Solving it requires thinking unconventionally. Nominally responsible for issues of comprehensive security in the Euro-Atlantic region, the OSCE is trying to reconcile something that is not at all easy to be reconciled. The organization ...
... Institute for European Studies; Andrey Zagorsky, Professor of the Chair for International Relations and Foreign Policy at MGIMO-University; Sergey Rogov, RAS Member and Director of RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies; Dmitry Danilov, Head of International Security Department at RAS Institute for European Studies; Sergey Utkin, Director of Center for Strategic Assessments at RAS Center for Situational Analysis, other representatives of Russian Foreign Ministry and Federation Council, and key ...
Opening remarks at the roundtable discussion on security developments in the Asia Pacific Region
Opening remarks of the Hon. Evan P. Garcia, Undersecretary for Policy, Department of Foreign Affairs, Republic of the Philippines, at the roundtable discussion on security developments in the Asia Pacific Region: Philippine and Russian perspectives.
Permit me at the outset to thank the Russian International Affairs Council for collaborating with the Philippine Embassy in Moscow in arranging this roundtable...
11-12 June 2014 — Global Zero convened a high-level conference in Rome on a Middle East WMD-free zone, bringing together government officials, former officials and experts from the Middle East and elsewhere in partnership with the Russian International Affairs Council.
At the meeting, participants engaged in frank discussions and a thorough exchange of ideas for establishing a Middle East WMD-free zone.
We support the ongoing efforts to convene a conference in Helsinki regarding the creation...
... in Italy Sergey Razov, RIAC President Igor Ivanov, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, and Director of the Center for Energy and Security Studies Anton Khlopkov.
Many high-ranking guests took part, among them U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation
Thomas Countryman
, Italian Foreign Minister
Federica Mogherini
, and Saudi Prince
Turki Ibn Faisal Al Saud
.
The participants were presented a report on various regional WMD programs followed by a plenary ...
Will economics trump politics?
Last Wednesday I delivered a paper on the issues and challenges facing the ASEAN Economic Community, which should be operational in 2015. I spoke guardedly of what lies ahead for the region given that goods, services, investment and skilled labor will transect 10 jurisdictions, rendering the usual attributes of the nation state all but obsolescent
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The Asia Pacific region is today a key focal point for the world’s three political and economic giants: the...
