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Climate change has risen to the top of the international agenda and is a regular item under consideration at major international arenas including the UN, G8, and G20. Yet, available international instruments like the Kyoto Protocol have proved to be ineffective in substantially reducing global emissions and on-going negotiations on a new ...
Will BRICS Make the World Safer? In its infancy, BRICS was preoccupied with economic issues, but today the group is also eager to handle global political problems including maintaining global security without the use of force. The BRICS countries support the preservation of the central role for the United Nations and its Security Council in safeguarding peace on the basis of the UN Charter and universally recognized norms of international law. Their peacemaking activities range from nonproliferation ...
... of soft power, public diplomacy, the internet and social media. Henry Kissinger was still at Harvard. Robert MacNamara was managing the biggest failure in the history of the Ford Motor Company, the ill-fated Edsel automobile; the highly publicized wunderkind who computerized the Pentagon and the Vietnam War wasn’t made president of Ford until two months before the Kennedy transition team chose him to be U.S. Secretary of Defense. An Outside-The-Box Gamble That Paid Off Overcoming objections ...
International NGOs yesterday, today and tomorrow A significant number of non-governmental actors can justifiably be regarded as an integral part of modern diplomacy, if by diplomacy we mean the communication system available to the international community. We have reason to claim that international NGOs, as important social institutions for the establishment and development of extensive contacts within multilateral diplomacy, help fill current gaps ...
... soldiers, child laborers and child prostitutes were a fact of life. Before the emergence of sharia law, before the Christian era, before the appearance of monotheistic Judaism and before the birth of the Orthodox Church. In spite of efforts by Islamic fundamentalists, one can find evidence of this fact at the Library of Alexandria. The library was saved from recent attacks by radical Islamasts only because employees and friends created a human chain to block the attackers from entering and looting the ...
RIAC President Igor Ivanov and Director of Federal Migration Service Konstantin Romodanovsky addressed the High-Level Dialog on International Migration and Development held in the UN Headquarters in New York on October, 3-4 in accordance with the UN General Assembly resolution 63/225 adopted on December 19, 2008. The event aims to set practical steps for strengthening international cooperation at all levels in order to minimize ...
... Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, who was part of the negotiations along with Kerry and Lavrov ostensibly representing what Kerry has referred to as “the Assad regime” caved in to a Qatar sponsored resolution that designates the Syrian National Council (SNC) as the official representative of Syria at the Arab League. Qatar even built a new embassy for the SNC in Doha. An Islamist Government-in-Waiting? The moderate Islamist, Ahmad Tumeh, is reported by various sources to have been elected on Saturday,...
... help feed them. Among the alliance Brazil is the only nation that can feed itself. Russia, China, India and South Africa have food trade deficits. Among non-BRICS, Japan remains dependent as the world’s largest food importer. For its part, the United States, while a leader in conservation agriculture, became an official net importer of food in 2005. For the BRICS, who represent 44 % of the world’s population and generate around 42% of global growth depending on what economist you like ...
Sanctions’ Regime of the UN Security Council. Peculiarities of the EU and the U.S Sanctions Policy Sanctions are one of the most important instruments available to the United Nations Security Council for negotiating settlements to international problems. The Security Council ...
Can A Charismatic Figure Reform The United Nations? Probably not. When one speaks of reform one is really speaking about a subset of change. Whether it’s structure, culture or mission, change means turning the conversation into action. A decade ago there was talk dans les couloirs ...
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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