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What is right vs. what works

Just in time for recapping the polarized choices presented by President Obama and President Putin at The United Nations General Assembly. In Foreign Policy there is a struggle between two concepts which every nation must face. There is the idealist perspective which promotes what is right under societal values and norms (which differ per culture), and there ...

05.10.2015

Who Rescues the Rescuers: UN Humanitarian Agencies in Crisis

As EU leaders find themselves hard-pressed to implement a quota system to resettle refugees flooding to the Union’s borders, the search for long-term sustainable solutions to the crisis continues. On September 14 th , British Prime Minister David Cameron visited a camp run by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in eastern Lebanon just a stone’s throw ...

28.09.2015

Can Russia and the West Cooperate in Syria?

Relations between Russia and the United States were already bad two years ago. Even before the problems in Ukraine began, Moscow had granted temporary asylum to former NSA intelligence leaker Edward Snowden and disagreements were deepening between the two countries. U.S. President Barack ...

20.09.2015

BRICS- Why is Brazil's Lula helping Argentina crash the party?

... shifted her focus to strategizing for her campaign to win a second term as president and “BRICSA” became a dead letter. Lula leaps in Last week, while Dilma and her group of Workers' Party insiders was negotiating the survival of her unraveling coalition, Lula was on an uncharacteristically long (one week) political junket to Argentina and Paraguay, ostensibly to promote bilateral trade and strengthen economic ties among Mercosul nations, another problematic issue. In Buenos Aires,...

17.09.2015

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Moving from peacekeeping to peacebuilding Moving from peacekeeping to peacebuilding Project Page http://russiancouncil.ru/en/un

15.09.2015

The United Nations’ legitimacy is unique

Question: What do you think about the importance of the session devoted to the 70th anniversary of the UN, aside from it being an anniversary? What format will it have and what decisions are likely to come of it? What do you personally expect from this session? Sergey Lavrov: First of all, the United Nations’ legitimacy is unique. It is the only ...

14.09.2015

Putin and Obama Must Meet in New York

It was announced recently that President Vladimir Putin will speak at the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly and will also head the Russian delegation. The upcoming anniversary session of the UN General Assembly later this month — taking place ...

09.09.2015

French Chicanery at the United Nations

With the 70th anniversary of the United Nations celebrated this fall, France has made a big splash by proposing limiting the right of veto exercised by the permanent members of the UN Security Council, i.e. by Russia, China, United Kingdom, the United States and France. But these ostensibly ...

26.06.2015
 

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