On May 18, 2021, at 3 pm Moscow time, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the TRENDS Research and Advisory (UAE) are holding an open Strategic Talk “Gulf Security Strategic View From UAE and Russian Perspective”
On May 18, 2021, at 3 pm Moscow time, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the TRENDS Research and Advisory (UAE) are holding an open Strategic Talk “Gulf Security Strategic View From UAE and Russian Perspective”.
Key themes that will be discussed include...
Should the next plan for a political settlement of the conflict fail, Libya risks becoming another Afghanistan, close to Europe
More than ten years ago, in February 2011, the Arab Spring began in Libya. The armed uprising quickly escalated into an armed conflict that had Muammar Gaddafi overthrown. Since then, the civil war has not stopped in the country. At the heart of the current conflict in Libya is the confrontation between the Government of National Accord (GNA), located in Tripoli, and the...
When advocates of ‘Global Britain’ romanticize the vision of Britain trading across the Commonwealth, they tend to forget to tell the complete story
As the UK is yet again able to take its future into its own hands, the ‘Global Britain’ narrative appears to be emerging as the leading framework set to define the country’s future engagement with the rest of the world.
Although the phrase has recently become more pervasively used in the public domain, it still remains stubbornly ambiguous to many...
Interview with Director of the Jean Monnet Network on EU Counter-Terrorism, prof. Christian Kaunert
Professor
Christian Kaunert
is the Director of the Jean Monnet Network on EU Counter-Terrorism (EUCTER). He is the Chair of Policing and Security, as well as the Director of the International Centre for Policing and Security at the University of South Wales. Previously, he served as an Academic Director and Professor at the Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, a Professor...
Despite the sanctions and accusatory rhetoric from politicians on both sides, ‘niche cooperation’ between the two countries is still possible in areas of common interest
Introduction
Political relations between Russia and Canada from 2014 to 2020 show that bilateral relations have been affected by the crisis in Russia-West relations and limited by a war of sanctions and accusatory rhetoric from both sides. In Canada, mainstream political discourse does not support dialogue with Russia, while in...
Interview for the Global Times
This year marks the 20
th
anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation between Russia and China. During the recent visit to China by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the two sides agreed to extend the treaty and enrich it with the essence of a new era. What is the essence of the new era? What is the trajectory of China-Russia relations in face of US hegemony? Global Times reporter Wang Wenwen interviewed Ivan Timofeev...
RIAC and IISS of Peking University Report #66 / 2021
RIAC and IISS of Peking University Report #66 / 2021
The report attempts to compare Russia and China’s views on the current state of affairs in African and their prospects moving forward. Experts have tried to juxtapose the strategies pursued by the two countries and assess the opportunities for expanding Russia–China cooperation on the continent. The positions presented in this report reflect the different experiences of Russia and China in...
On March 29, 2021, at 10:00 (GMT+3)
On March 29, 2021, at 10:00 am Moscow time (GMT+3), the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Strategic Vision Institute (SVI, Pakistan) are holding an open Zoom webinar “Russia-Pakistan Cooperation: Regional Interests and Global Context”. The event will be attended by leading experts from Russia and Pakistan.
The webinar seeks to find ways to enhance cooperation between Russia and Pakistan and discuss the approaches of the two states to security...
Review of: Stephen F. Cohen. “War with Russia? From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate.”
Review of: Stephen F. Cohen. “War with Russia? From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate.” (Hot Books and Skyhorse Publishing, New York, 2019) 236 pp. ISBN: 9781510745810
“We are probably closer to actual war with Russia today than ever before in history” (p. 109).
So wrote the American expert on Russia Stephen F. Cohen—who passed away on 18 September 2020 in New York—in his last published book [
1
]. For...
With the Chinese engagement and great power competition on the rise, Russia keeps a vigilant eye on the -Stans
The latest months have been chaotic in Kyrgyzstan, where the fraudulent parliamentary elections held in October resulted in a popular uprising, as President Sooronbay Jeenbekov lost his grip on the population. A few hours following the elections, the Russian Defense Ministry declared to have put its Kant airbase in the Chuy Oblast’ on high alert [
i
].
Civil unrest at its periphery has...
