... culture of caution, which limits transparency and predictability, both of which are essential for deeper forms of economic integration. At the same time, security cooperation remains the only domain in which all major powers within the SCO such as China, Russia, and India can engage without compromising their strategic autonomy or national interests. For Russia in particular, this architecture is especially valuable. In a period of shifting regional alignments, the SCO provides Moscow with a reliable ...
Having failed as an architectural idea, European security remains a practical problem for Russia
Security issues in Europe are undergoing both real-world and conceptual changes. On a real-world level, the region is in the midst of a severe political crisis. Its epicentre is the Ukraine conflict, and its core lies in the contradictions between ...
The military-political conflict between Russia and the West over Ukraine represents a pivotal event in the evolution of relations between Russia and neighbouring countries
The military-political conflict between Russia and the West over Ukraine represents a pivotal event in the evolution ...
... of operation—the operation of the international system itself. This is not a shift in the balance of power but in the way power itself functions. Among the first major powers to recognize this transformation in the system’s operating logic is the Russian Federation.
The transformations underway in the African Sahel region can no longer be understood merely as a redistribution of influence among competing international powers; rather, they reveal a deeper change in the logic by which the international ...
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in 2026. The mission is designed to search for and study water ice in permanently shadowed regions. The follow-on Chang’e-8 program is linked to the development of technologies for the future International Lunar Research Station, a joint Russian-Chinese project.
For its part, India’s Chandrayaan-4 mission, scheduled for 2028, is supposed to deliver soil samples taken near the Moon’s South Pole. This will be followed by plans in New Delhi for a joint polar expedition with Japan. The ...
... innocent lives but also sought to undermine Pakistan’s hard-earned gains against extremism. In the immediate aftermath, messages of solidarity poured in from across the world. Among the most significant was the strong and unequivocal condemnation by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who reaffirmed Moscow’s readiness to step up cooperation with Pakistan in countering terrorism.
This gesture was not simply symbolic. It reflected a steadily deepening partnership between Pakistan and Russia—two countries ...
... and eliminating the trade deficit. However, tariffs have also begun to be actively used for political purposes, utilized as economic sanctions. Moreover, the targets are not so much US adversaries as allies and partners—pressure on India to abandon Russian oil is one example.
Sanctions against allies are hardly a new phenomenon. The US has been actively utilizing both restrictive measures and the threat of using them. Washington resorted to this threat, for example, during the Suez Crisis of 1956-1957,...
As the foreign policies of Russia’s neighbours are increasingly defined by the pursuit of multi-vector alignment
As the foreign policies of Russia’s neighbours are increasingly defined by the pursuit of multi-vector alignment, the previously elusive concept now shapes events ...
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], we will wake up to a new reality. There are much larger developments on the global agenda than the expiration of yet another arms control agreement. After all, the treaty has not been fully implemented for quite some time: Russia suspended its participation in February 2023, and on-site inspections stopped back in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Without inspections or data exchanges, the treaty was effectively reduced to good-faith commitments not to exceed the agreed ...
On Vietnam’s “bamboo” diplomacy and opportunities for Russia in the Asia-Pacific region.
Amid the erosion of the old-world order and the emergence of new, competing power centers, the Asia-Pacific region has also entered a phase of transformation. For Russia, whose post-2022 pivot to the East has become ...
