... Islamic Republic of Iran to Russia (2013–2019)
On February 16, 2021, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS) held an online workshop on the forthcoming challenges for Russia and Iran in the Middle East.
The event was opened by Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Mehdi Sanai, IRAS President, Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic ...
On February 5, 2021, with the assistance of The Shaikh Group political consultancy, the ordinary virtual expert meeting on security issues in the Middle East and North Africa took place.
On February 5, 2021, with the assistance of The Shaikh Group political consultancy, the ordinary virtual expert meeting on security issues in the Middle East and North Africa took place.
High-level experts from ...
RIAC and the Middle East Directions Programme of the EUI Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Report
RIAC and the Middle East Directions Programme of the EUI Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Report
2020 witnessed the peak of military tensions between ...
... strategic stability can, given the appropriate political will on both sides, act as a stepping stone towards the restoration of bilateral cooperation in other areas.
Regional conflicts
The second area of mutual concern are the regional conflicts in the Middle East, Syria and Libya, as well as the nuclear problem in Iran and North Korea.
It is unlikely that we will see any bilateral agreements on these issues in the near future. That said, the parties would certainly benefit from dialogue, given that ...
The infographic “Map of Official Development Assistance (ODA) Flows to the Arab Middle East and North Africa” was created using data on the allocation of ODA to the Arab MENA countries from 2011 to 2018.
The project builds upon the RIAC report “
International Assistance to the Middle East and North Africa: Managing Risks
” ...
The event was organized by Washington Middle East Institute in partnership with Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the U.S. Department of Defense.
On January 14, 2021, a regular meeting of the U.S.–Russia Middle East Dialogue Group was held online. The event was organized ...
On January 11, 2021, with the assistance of The Shaikh Group political consultancy, the ordinary virtual expert meeting on security issues in the Middle East and North Africa took place.
On January 11, 2021, with the assistance of The Shaikh Group political consultancy, the ordinary virtual expert meeting on security issues in the Middle East and North Africa took place.
High-level experts from ...
The “crumbling” of the world order is related primarily to the profound re-balancing of the global system and the growing influence of new centers of power on global political processes, specifically BRICS member-states, Middle East actors and, to a certain extent, Southeast Asian countries
Authors:
Vitaly Naumkin
, PhD in History, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, State Academic University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia Dean of the Faculty of Oriental ...
... Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, NRU HSE, RIAC Expert
Chiara Lovotti, PhD candidate, Faculty of History, University of Bologna; Associate Research Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Center at Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)
Grigory Lukyanov, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, NRU HSE; Researcher, Center for Arabic and Islamic Studies of the Institute ...
... presented collective and individual monographs written by the staff of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS and published in 2020.
The conference was attended by RIAC Vice-President Aleksandr Aksenenok. He took part in the round table "Bigger Middle East: Lines of Interplay and Lines of Confrontation (2020 with Projection into 2021)", in which fundamental geopolitical changes in the region in 2020 were discussed. Besides, the participants discussed the prospects for the political development ...
