... 2025
Report No. 99 / 2025
The following report focuses on the Middle Eastern policies of extra-regional actors and their transformation in changing conditions. It concentrates on studying the strategies pursued by Russia, the U.S., the EU, China and India in the Middle East. The report also examines how Middle Eastern countries perceive extra-regional actors as they aspire to build pragmatic and balanced relationships with external partners.
Extra-Regional Actors in the Middle East
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... network of partnerships and security alliances—by promoting interoperability and its warfighting capabilities. The quadrilateral cooperation mechanism, known as the
Quad
, is a manifestation of this approach based on a minilateral grouping among U.S., India, Australia, and Japan. Shared interests, democratic values, and strong people-to-people ties underpin this partnership. Although the Quad’s agenda seemed opaque since its inception,
evolving
to cater traditional security threats, the member states ...
... winter jackets and carrying thick academic textbooks. These are not ordinary travelers; they are students bound for Moscow on the 6:00 a.m. flight, embarking on a journey that reflects a larger, often overlooked trend: the educational migration from India to Russia. Having once been among them—and now a practicing Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist in Moscow—I often reflect on that journey and what it represents.
Why Russia?
Russia — India Relations in Broader Geopolitical Context. RIAC and ...
... transformation. The national mobilization of entrepreneurialism—the deliberate and systemic effort to harness and amplify entrepreneurial energy across a nation—has shaped the economic trajectories of global powers like the United States, China, and India. Over the past century, these nations have employed distinct strategies to ignite entrepreneurial ecosystems, often with remarkable success. How was all this achieved before economic theorems were popularised and every politician succumbed to economic ...
... Northern Sea Route. Together, these corridors are the umbilical cord of the multipolar world order and arguably focus on a conducive re-globalization of the world. [
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Julia Melnikova, Natalia Viakhireva, Gleb Gryzlov:
The Issue of Connectivity in India-Russia Relations — From Eurasia to the Arctic
Similarly, the Eurasian region has witnessed these trends since the 1990s; Asian economies saw a rapid take-off in the 1990s, ASEAN and Gulf countries, as well as India and China, saw an economic ...
... globally. The U.S.-led new economic order produced enormous economic output, societal change but also new concerns. China’s remarkable rise was the product of the post-war economic order. China, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, other Asian tigers, and India have developed, leaving their “poor country” status behind to become great major powers within the international system. The U.S. also achieved tremendous economic growth, establishing a technological monopoly until China recently started challenging ...
... and ideologically structure the immediate environment, since the very notion of a “pole” implies at least a certain degree of self-sufficiency and, thus, a vision of why and how it could be held together.
Alexey Kupriyanov:
New Agenda of Russia-India Relations
Connectivity is key to upholding regional structure. At first, the notion was seen as a way to connect product origins to their consumption destinations [
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... Gavrilova, RIAC Director of Programs, moderated the session.
During the first session, the presentation of the RIAC report, “Extra-Regional actors in the Middle East”, was held. The experts discussed regional strategies of Russia, USA, EU, China and India. Speakers in this session were the report authors: Alexander Aksenenok, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-President; Alexander Lomanov, Acting Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the Primakov Institute ...
March 27, 2025
On March 27, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), supported by the
Embassy of India in Russia
, will host the first ever Russia and India: Towards a New Bilateral Agenda International Conference. The event will bring together public officials and experts from Moscow, New Delhi, and other cities and regions of the two countries....
On March 20, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council and the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) held the annual conference “Russia-India: Contours of Cooperation in a Changing World Order”
On March 20, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council and the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) held ...
