The Future of Peacekeeping
The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers is celebrated on 29 May
[1]
. The day has a dual purpose – to commemorate UN peacekeepers who have died in the name of peace and pay tribute to all men and women dedicating high levels of professionalism, dedication and courage by having served, or currently serving, in various UN peacekeeping units. With the world facing new challenges, UN peacekeeping is evolving. How are peacekeeping missions established?...
On May 28, 2014 two prestigious internationally-focused non-governmental organizations met to discuss important and emerging geopolitical issues and agreed on a program of cooperation to promote security and peace among East and West.
Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Ross Perot, Jr.,
EWI
Chairman of the Board, convened the joint meeting and discussion in RIAC’s offices in Moscow.
Participants included RIAC members and other Russian thought leaders, and EWI board members and staff...
On May 24-26, 2014 Shanghai hosted the 9th Shanghai Forum sponsored by the Fudan University and Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies.
The event is the key Chinese annual research and practice platform for discussion of Asia-related socio-economic, financial, infrastructure and legal problems with participation of leading international experts, famous politicians, business and civil society leaders, as well as guests from Europe, America and other regions.
The Shanghai Forum is co-organized by research...
In March 2014, the US Department of Defense published another of its Quadrennial Defense Reviews. The review analyzes defense policy priorities in light of foreign policy “re-balancing”. It puts a particular emphasis on the US’s capacity to respond to challenges during a period of fiscal austerity.
The Pentagon has to respond to the changing nature of external threats and must rely on any available opportunities to sustain US national interests. The ongoing shift in the “centre...
On April 29, 2014 the
Latvian Institute of International Affairs
hosted a seminar on Baltic security sponsored by the
Nuclear Threat Initiative
(NTI) and
European Leadership Network
(ELN). The final session was devoted to relations between Russia and the West against the backdrop of Ukrainian events.
The event was moderated by Andris Spruds, Institute Director. At the final session spoke Ian Kearns, ELN Director; Sergey Utkin, RIAC expert, Head of Strategic Assessments Section at RAS Center for...
On April 7-8, 2014 RIAC President Igor Ivanov and RAS Academician Alexei Arbatov, Head of the Center for International Security of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, took part in the meeting of the Board of Directors of U.S. nonprofit organization
Nuclear Threat Initiative
.
At the session, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov ...
... all the harmful consequences of the Iraq gamble. The first steps in the political settlement of the Syrian crisis and the Iranian nuclear problem also suggest that that there is a growing understanding of the need to jointly develop a new system of international security that would match the challenges and threats of the XXI century.
11. So, what do we need to do in order to prevent the world sliding down to a new Cold war as some of politicians already predict? How can we make the world safer,...
GlobalSecurityNewswire Reporter: Russian Expert Urges to Ban Ground-Based Missile
In early 2014, the Russian International Affairs Council published a working paper "
Multilateral Approach to Nuclear Disarmament
" devoted to strategic stability and control of nuclear weapons, which was reviewed by Rachel Oswald from GlobalSecurityNewswire who cited the paper's major author Dr. Alexander Savelyev, Head of Strategic Research Section at the RAS Institute of World Economy and International...
Working paper №9
The goal of this research is to examine one of the possible options to continue disarmament process involving all member states of the Big Five. This study represents a vision of potential actions by Russia to engage third countries in the nuclear disarmament process at it subsequent stages, analyses the current state in nuclear sphere. The author develops the key idea, which could serve as a basis for multilateral negotiations. The author takes into account viewpoints of the leading...
Recent stormy developments in Ukraine and around it have somewhat overshadowed an important anniversary associated with that country.
At the beginning of 1994, that is twenty years ago, the Presidents of Russia, Ukraine and the United States signed the Trilateral Statement, determining the future nuclear-free status of the Ukrainian state. In addition to issues directly relating to nuclear disarmament, the Statement set principles governing relations among the three countries, i.e. respect for the...
