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It was not immediately clear what this new Russia’s national interests were – and whether or how they differed from those of its American and European friends.
But armed conflicts on the outskirts of the former USSR, the wars in the Balkans and NATO’s enlargement to the east, taught Russia’s elites and public some pretty hard lessons about the country’s post-Soviet role.
NATO enlargement, the Kosovo crisis and the war in Chechnya marked the end of the early benign attitude toward the West,...
... positioned in peaceful Scandinavia, Norway does not appear to be an obvious instigator of great power conflicts. The calm in Scandinavia throughout the Cold War was the result of the non-militarised buffer status of Sweden and Finland as they did not join NATO, while the military activity of Norway was limited compared to the rest of the military bloc. Northern Europe’s status as a harbour of stability has recently begun to unravel partly due to Norway’s new military posture, while NATO’s flirtation ...
... Turkey to global markets. For the USA, it is not satisfied with the Turkish rapprochement with Moscow, and might use the Kurdish card to pressure on Ankara, further complicating its regional and internal affairs -Despite of being two close allies in NATO. On the other hand, both Moscow and Washington fear the current timing of independence poll, as the fight against ISIS is tensing and progressing. A crack between Baghdad and Erbil would badly alter the progress made in the fight against ISIS. Moscow ...
... reflection, we are doomed to further deterioration of the relationship.
In a recent Valdai Club report, I proposed a combination of seven factors for a Euro-Atlantic security formula: the balance of power, the structural peculiarities of Russia and NATO, arms control regimes and institutions, political identity, new areas of competition and vulnerability (the digital and information environments), peripheral conflicts in Europe, and the role of rising external actors.
Ivan Timofeev:
The Euro-Atlantic ...
On September 28–29, 2017, Brussels hosted a number of meetings between NATO headquarters official representatives and Russian experts. The topics for discussion covered Russia-NATO relations, the priorities of the Alliance at the current stage, and possible ways to solve common security issues.
On September 28–29, 2017,...
... Incirlik
RIAC Report “New Stage of Russia–Turkey Economic Relations”
A military base is a strategic facility for any country. One that hosts foreign troops is doubly so.
Incirlik Air Base is historically a key element of Turkey’s relations with its NATO partners, first of all the USA and the EU. It should be noted that Incirlik is not a NATO facility. Owned by Turkey, it may be used by foreign troops under a number of agreements and pursuant to issue of special government directives. Incirlik has ...
... that stem from the main problem of Russian aggression. The Atlantic Council’s analysts who authored this report have reaffirmed that the most effective course of combatting these threats is through a concerted effort between the European Union and NATO to create a bulwark that would prevent these threats from drastically altering the status quo. Combining critical infrastructures and resources that each of the member states can offer, in the authors’ opinion, will effectively check Russian hybrid ...
... under serious consideration in Washington, along with a flurry of controversy. In Jiri’s interview by Alexander Motyl in The World Affairs Journal, he continue to recommend it, advocating a Swiss-Austrian model of armed neutrality for Ukraine without NATO membership,is the only possible guarantee for its full independence. As far as we know, we were the first to propose that we needed to get rid of Barack Obama’s concept of strategic patience, in our article, “Divining Putin’s Intentions; Why ...
... close.
This is the fourth article in a series looking ahead at the drivers of Russian foreign policy from 2017 to 2022.
In the next five years, Russia’s relations with the United States and Europe will be competitive and tense. Russia will not invade NATO territory unprovoked, but incidents along the new front line, stretching from the Arctic to the Baltic to the Black Sea and elsewhere, may occasionally endanger peace between Russia and the United States and its allies. Operating from a position ...
... visionaries with a detailed knowledge of the situation on the
ground, but who are also ready to take a fundamentally new look at long-
established views.
This report
proceeds from the understanding that the major gap in capabilities between
Russia and NATO has produced an asymmetric and unbalanced system of security in
the Euro-Atlantic region. Although that asymmetry was not of critical concern
prior to the Ukrainian crisis, it has become a source of serious risks under
current conditions. The series ...
