Eurasia is entering the 2020s with a burden of old problems while also facing new dangerous challenges
Confrontation between Russia and the USA/NATO
There is no reason to believe that the worsening relations between Russia and the West, a process that began six years ago following the Ukrainian crisis, will be rectified in the near future. The current conflict is largely due to the fact that, since Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential victory, Russia has become the bogeyman of the US domestic political...
On October 29, 2019, in Moscow, International Multimedia Press Center at IIA Rossiya Segodnya hosted a round table, during which a presentation of a policy brief on “Russia and Armenia in the Regional Security System” was made. The policy brief was prepared by RIAC in cooperation with the Armenian think tank ARDI Lab.
On October 29, 2019, in Moscow, International Multimedia Press Center at IIA Rossiya Segodnya hosted a round table, during which a presentation of a
policy brief on “Russia and Armenia...
What is the situation in the region, and how to mitigate the risks of the conflicts?
The South Caucasus and Southeast Ukraine are the two significant hotspots in Europe. There are still some tensions in the unresolved Nagorno-Karabakh conflict while the Georgian-Abkhaz and the Georgian-Ossetian ones are quite stable. Changes in the South ...
On March 20, 2019, Rudolf Michalka, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus, and his advisor Pietro Guastamacchia visited Russian International Affairs Council.
On March 20, 2019, Rudolf Michalka, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus, and his advisor Pietro Guastamacchia ...
On November 8–11, 2018, a seminar on regional security in the South Caucasus was held in Reichenau (Austria). The theme of the seminar was «South Caucasus: Leveraging Political Change in a Context of Strategic Volatility».
On November 8–11, 2018, a seminar on regional security in the South Caucasus was held ...
... However, none of these tasks have been resolved completely. Andrey Kortunov also noted that there is an idea that the Soviet Union’s dissolution is still not completely finished. The evidence of this hypothesis is the situation in Ukraine and in the South Caucasus.
Evgeny Kozhokin, Vice Rector for Research of the MGIMO-University and RIAC member, expressed an opinion that one of the difficulties in creating common economic space on ex-Soviet area was the relative youth of most counties in this region....
South Caucasus has the potential of becoming a stumbling block for both the EU and the EEU in terms of energy cooperation. For now the region remains on the bottom of priority list for both Europe and EEU countries, but in the future when the latter finalize ...
Over the past two years, the political dynamics in the Greater Caucasus region (the North Caucasian republics within the Russian Federation and countries of Transcaucasia) has been overshadowed by developments in Ukraine and the Middle East.
Meanwhile, the region continues to face a large number of risks, ranging from unresolved ethnic conflicts (the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, in particular) and competing integration projects (the Eurasian project and the North Atlantic one) to terrorist activities...
The collapse of the Soviet Union created both a new political reality and geographical borders in the region. The South Caucasus has drawn attention from regional powers such as Russia, Iran and Turkey and external powers such as the US and Europe, while a political vacuum created by the fall of the USSR madethe newly independent Caucasus nations to look for new ...
... players as well as neighboring countries. Former Soviet Transcaucasia republics, which became subject to international law overnight, began to formulate their own national interests and foreign policy priorities. The emergence of independent states in the South Caucasus went hand-in-hand with attempts to advance new regional security mechanisms and new forms of international cooperation.
Analysis of bilateral Russian-Azerbaijani relations is key to understanding political developments across the post-Soviet ...
