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Who Blinks First—the Conflict in Europe

If just one word were to be used to describe the preliminary outcomes of this dramatic crisis, the word would be resilience The unfortunate conflict between Russia and Ukraine started almost a year and a half ago, and many experts in Russia, Europe, Asia, in the United States claimed that this conflict was a game changer. It was being said that the world would never be the same again as revolutionary shifts ...

07.07.2023

The Future of the Arctic Council

Working Paper No. 75 / 2023 Working Paper No. 75 / 2023 This Working Paper analyses the March 3 and June 8, 2022, Joint Statements made by the seven Western Arctic Council member states in the current political and legal context of environmental and economic management in the northern polar region. Taking existing academic publications on the status of the Arctic Council, the authors examine various options for the future of the Council moving forward. The Future of the Arctic Council , 3.3 Mb

06.07.2023

Eleventh Package of EU Sanctions. What's New?

The main intrigue of the package was restrictive measures against foreign countries and organisations that interact with Russia The European Union has introduced its eleventh package of sanctions against Russia . The main intrigue of the package was restrictive measures against foreign countries and organisations that interact with Russia. It pertains to cooperation ...

05.07.2023

African States Should Seize the Opportunity to Work with the Mutually-Reinforcing Global Visions of China and Russia

Changes not seen in one hundred years are taking place – and the Global South stands to benefit. Africa is the world’s youngest continent.[1] Leveraging its population pidend, Africa has a unique opportunity to transform in the coming decades – Russian and Chinese support will be key to success. Source: Rosatom Indeed, for more than a decade, Chinas has been delivering world-class infrastructure, while Russia supplied Africa with the raw materials and foodstuffs its expanding economic base required,...

04.07.2023

What Are the Core Benefits of Multilateralism at the Present Stage?

... influential venue bringing together prominent politicians and leading experts to address current security issues of global and regional dimensions. Such meetings and frank exchanges of opinions are more than in demand today because our world, citing Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, “has approached dangerous line, and perhaps even a more dangerous, than in the Cold War years”. And the Russian minister is not alone in his alarming assessment of recent developments in the world. The situation ...

03.07.2023

Nuclear Non-proliferation in an Unstable World

... VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and encourages potential proliferators to continue attempts to acquire nuclear weapons. Moreover, strategic arms control per se is in a deep crisis: the United States walked out of the ABM and INF agreements, while Russia suspended its participation to the New START that in any case expires in the beginning of 2026. It is not at all clear whether the strategic arms control as we know it since early 1970s survives the current confrontation between Moscow and the ...

03.07.2023

Russia-West: Rising Stakes

Russia’s preservation of its statehood and sovereignty again becomes the main stake of the conflict. The statehood of Ukraine is another stake In Russia, the point of view that the goal of the United States and the “collective West” headed by ...

30.06.2023

Why Russia cannot ‘sober up the West’ by using a nuclear bomb

The nuclear weapons taboo is undoubtedly weakening, but Moscow shouldn’t be the first to break it Professor Sergey Karaganov’s “Tough-but-necessary decision” article – which claims that by using its nuclear weapons, Russia could save humanity from a global catastrophe – has provoked plenty of reaction both at home and abroad. This is partly due to the author’s status – he has been an adviser to both President Boris Yeltsin and President Vladimir Putin – and ...

29.06.2023
 

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