... economically without irritating its EU and NATO allies?
It would be wrong to label Germany as “Russia’s lobbyist” in the EU or in the West at large. Germany is a disciplined member of NATO; one cannot compare Germany to an unpredictable and dissenting Turkey or even to a Moscow-friendly Italy. The old Neue Ostpolitik is not there any longer. However, many European politicians still look to Berlin for guidance on their approaches to Russia. Germany remains Russia’s largest trading partner in Europe ...
... global perspective, three states are the “top” targets for sanctions. These are Iran (116 events), China (94) and Russia (90). Other targets include Venezuela (44), Syria (35), Belarus (33), North Korea (33), Cuba (23), Nicaragua (18), Libya (18), Turkey (17) and the U.S. (12). As far as functional issues are concerned, we have to mention counterterrorism (62), human rights (34), non-proliferation (18), combating drug trafficking (14). 513 events (60.49 per cent) are negative, another 205 (24.17 ...
... optimize its
Afro-Eurasian “balancing” act
between West and East, the former comprising the U.S./EU while the latter encompassing China vis-a-vis BRI; India with respect to the possibility of jointly leading a New Non-Aligned Movement (
Neo-NAM
); Turkey insofar as managing their “friendly competition” especially in West Asia, the South Caucasus, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), and perhaps soon in Central Asia as well; and Africa when it comes to scaling up the export of Moscow’s “democratic ...
... actively advocate its return to the organisation. The Gulf monarchies have gone through a decade of reassessing challenges and threats.
Conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Yemen have led to the strengthening of the regional rivals of the Arab states of the Gulf—Turkey and Iran. The expansion of these major regional powers is forcing the UAE, Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries to seek new approaches. In the context of Syria, this means the Arab rejection of the Turkish occupation of Syrian (and, therefore,...
... Center Executive Board; Vice-President of the Russian International Affairs Council; and Lt-General (Ret.), Russia
General (Ret.) Vincenzo Camporini
Vice President, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy
Hikmet Cetin
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Turkey
James F. Collins
Ambassador (Ret.), United States
James Cowan
CEO, HALO Trust, United Kingdom
Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola
Former Chief of Defence; former Chairman of NATO’s Military Committee; former Minister of Defence, Italy
Ambassador Rolf ...
... of leading global actors—previously dubbed as great powers (Russia, the US, China, India, the EU)—and significant regional powers capable of influencing the global agenda, even if to different degrees (Germany, France, the UK, Japan, South Korea, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Brazil, Australia).
Figuratively speaking, the global system received a new hardware [Lukyanov et al. 2020: 20–21]. This is largely the very “fabric” that both neo-realists and neo-liberals hoped to achieve—a world ...
... the affected populations.
While dialogue is important, action cannot be reduced to dialogue. The way we act vis-à-vis areas of strategic interest for both parties, EU and Russia—such as the Balkans, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, the Middle East, Turkey, Libya and the North of Africa—is of the outmost importance. If nothing else, at least our common interest of avoiding escalation, combatting radicalisation, promoting stability, fostering political and diplomatic instruments to overcome conflict,...
... some security issues in the South Caucasus. In particular, during the event, experts from Russia and Azerbaijan discussed the prospects for the construction of transport corridors running through the territories of Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Iran and Turkey, that could become new economic arteries for the region.
In addition, the experts came to the conclusion that the implementation of joint logistics projects in the region can become the basis for the rapprochement of states in the South Caucasus ...
... overconfidence were not common only to Pashinyan. Artsakh president Arayik Harutyunyan in June 2020
stated
that “the air of Artsakh is entirely protected”. Samvel Babayan, then Secretary of Artsakh Security Council,
said
in August 2020 that even if Turkey joins Azerbaijan in a possible war, Artsakh will definitely win. As the war showed, both statements were miscalculations.
Research shows that emotion plays an essential role in psychology and decision-making. McDermott posits that “emotions can ...
... May 20–21, 2021, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) in partnership with the American Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) held an international conference on relations between Turkey, Russia and the West and what the stakes are in Syria and the Eastern Mediterranean.
On May 20–21, 2021, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) in partnership with the American Foreign ...
