Proposition: A bona fide Arctic Union should be create
The full original debate was published in the
Spring 2017 issue of Global Brief magazine
Proposition: A bona fide Arctic Union should be created
Zachary Paikin
(in favour)
: At this important crossroads in global geopolitics, the world’s circumpolar countries should band together to advance regional integration by forming an Arctic Union. This institution would not be as profoundly interconnected as the EU, but would still possess a number...
On April 6, RIAC and International Crisis Group (ICG) held a joint workshop addressing issues of security and development in the Middle East and North Africa. The event was opened by Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Jost Hiltermann, Program Director for the Middle East and North Africa, ICG.
The first session covered Middle Eastern actors’ stances in the regional conflicts, the attitude of Russia, the U.S.A. and the EU towards Syrian, Libyan and Yemeni crises. Experts assessed the...
RIAC Working Paper #38/2017
This paper presents proposals on building a regional security system in West Asia and North Africa. The authors propose to use the term “West Asia” to facilitate new views and approaches on the existing problems and bring economic and geographical interaction to the forefront of the relations between the external and regional actors and within regional actors themselves.
The authors emphasize the need to reorganize the economies of the states of the region, including...
... conference was marked by the following speakers: Aleksey Gromyko, Director of the Institute of Europe (RAS), RIAC member, RAS associate member; Andrey Zagorsky, Head of the Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies of the Center for International Security at Y. Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO); Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General; Sergey Rogov, Academy Fellow, RIAC member, Scientific Director of the RAS ...
... the European Union on a number of fundamental issues
The new Global EU Strategy is a landmark event. It formalizes an attempt to transform the European Union into the independent center of world politics and further growth of its responsibility in international security matters. In case of its successful implementation, the EU will attain a greater potential and political weight. The EU will become a new qualitative political player, cooperating closely with NATO and solving a wide range of security ...
Limited War is Back
The anniversary of the Victory in World War II is an occasion to reflect on the danger of a new war breaking out between great powers. The end of World War II ushered in the nuclear era. Ever since that time scholars have been ceaselessly debating two problems
[1]
. First: Is a direct military showdown between the nuclear powers possible? And if so, will they dare use nuclear weapons? Second: Can nuclear war be interpreted according to the Clausewitz formula whereby “war...
Task Force on Cooperation in Greater Europe Position Paper IV
Task Force
on Cooperation in Greater Europe Position Paper
The context
Large swathes of the Middle East have collapsed into a state of violence, chaos and division, causing unimaginable amounts of human suffering. We now face a highly dynamic and very dangerous situation in the Middle East, with the prospect of further instability, but also some hope for improvement following a pause in the Syrian civil war.
During our recent meetings...
... of trust will be with us for a long, long time even under the best possible circumstances. And without trust it is practically impossible to consider a comprehensive and long term common strategy in such a sensitive and politically loaded sphere as international security.
Second
, there is no common vision about the future of the international system at large or about the future of Euro-Atlantic space in particular. The perceptions of how the new world order should look like are too different in ...
... matter is required.
According to a foreign participant, Russia's operation in Syria may add to its tarnished image in the EU since it generates one more driver for the refugee flow to Europe.
The participants agreed to continue their exchanges on the international security issues.
List of participants
Roundtable "Russian and Western Views on International Conflict Settlement and Security Challenges"
I felt a sense of deja vu reading Troitskiy’s polemical
response
. The very title of the article “Why Nuclear Weapons Are Strategically Useless?” gives rise to troubling associations. More than once in history has a particular kind of weapon been declared “strategically useless.” In the early twentieth century, French military commanders declared that airplanes had no place in the army and their scope of application was just in sports. In the 1930s, a notorious group...
