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On November 14, the Federal Academy for Security Policy and the German Atlantic Association, co-hosted an international conference «A New NATO for New Challenges?» in Berlin. The participants of the conference — high-ranking politicians, military officials, diplomats, experts, and journalists from the Alliance member-states discussed the current and future security and stability ...
Due to the Ukraine crisis, relations between Russia and NATO are definitely at a nadir for the entire period since the end of the Cold War. Their deterioration has been abrupt, snowballing and irreversible. As a matter of fact, Brussels regards Moscow as its top security challenge and at a minimum has made ...
... relations with Russia meant that Moscow could get the best terms possible for collaborating with the triumphalist West. The West was more than generous in offering Ru ssia a “special arrangement” with the European Union and a se at at the NATO-Russian Council. Moscow had to play by the Western rules, because these rules were supposed to be clearly bet ter for the new, democratic Russia than any other alternative, if such an alternative ever existed in the 1990s. H owever, this was definitely ...
Ivan Timofeev, Program Director of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), and RIAC Program Coordinator Anna Kuznetsova took part in the meeting of experts “Russia, Latvia, and Europe after the Warsaw NATO Summit” that was held in Riga on October 29, 2016 within the framework of the Riga Conference on international security issues. The ...
... discuss big issues such as European defence… The UK has stated publicly that as long as they are part of the EU, they are going to oppose any moves towards European defence. Russia is probably in favour of a European army, because this would weaken NATO? You know, it’s not Russia’s policy to weaken anybody, except the terrorists. I believe that this is an issue not of a European army, because it’s not on the cards, but of a European military potential. I think that’s an element ...
On September 29-30, 2016 Russian experts on security policy and Russia-EU relations paid a visit to Brussels. During the stay there, the delegation visited the NATO headquarters, the European External Action Service (EEAS), as well as the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA). On September 29, the experts held a series of meetings with North Atlantic Treaty Organization officials, namely NATO Deputy Secretary-General ...
... 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 issues - from conventional deterrence to new challenges and threats. Among them are migration, cyber security, energy, sustainability of states in transition, etc. The EU's role in the formation of a new security ...
NATO’s New Digital Wall At the NATO summit in Warsaw on July 8–9, 2016, particular attention was paid to the issues of the Alliance’s activity in cyberspace. NATO adopted a “Cyber Defence Pledge ” which contains a development ...
... in the Ukraine has become as hot as the scorching weather the country has been experiencing of late. Discussions about the latest trends at home and around the world and what it all means for the future of Ukraine have reached fever pitch. The recent NATO Summit in Warsaw, the attempted coup in Turkey, the complicated dynamics of the development of Ukraine’s relations with important regional partner (Poland) and the threat of the situation in Donbass escalating – all this has sent shockwaves ...
... combat readiness of its forces in Eastern Europe, including the air force forward-deployed in East Germany, in preparation to meet an expected pre-emptive strike by the United States and its allies. The cause of this anxiety was the 1983 Able Archer NATO military exercise, an unusually large affair that focused on concentrating major formations of allied units in Western Europe in order to fight a combined arms operation, inclusive of tactical nuclear weapons, against the Warsaw Pact. The series ...
