On October 17, a group of RIAC members and experts visited the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly to discuss the situation in Syria in the context of changes in the Greater Middle East.
Opened by Dr.
Igor Ivanov
and
Igor Morozov
, member of the Council’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, the meeting was addressed by
Vitaly Naumkin
, RAS Corresponding Member and Director ...
On October 15, RIAC held a Club Meeting to discuss international fallouts of the Syria crisis.
Opened by Chairman of RIAC Board of Trustees Eugeny Primakov and RIAC President Igor Ivanov, the session featured expert analysis presented by Director of RAS Institute for African Studies Academician Alexei Vassilyev, Ambassador Extraordinary ...
On October 3, 2013 the
Atlantic Council of the United States
hosted in Washington a roundtable discussion “Syria: Prospects for Political Settlement”.
RIAC President Igor Ivanov, former NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson and former Obama administration Special Envoy Frederic C. Hof addressed the meeting. They discussed elimination of chemical weapons ...
Interview
On the night of September 28, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution on Syria.
Irina Zvyagelskaya
, Professor of Oriental Studies at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the RF MFA (MGIMO) and senior researcher at the Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies, talks about whether the resolution approved was ...
When people in the west seek to explain Moscow’s approach to the crisis in Syria, they often refer to Damascus as Russia’s “last remaining ally in the Middle East”. They also frequently include Russia’s interest in the Syrian arms market and the Tartus naval facility. Finally, a seemingly powerful argument ...
... unipolarity and neoliberal international political economy.
A corollary of American hegemonism in the last decades has been the world too reliant on the U.S. as an external authority in the times of crises. In his recent press statements regarding Syria, U.S. President Barack Obama stressed out that Washington is not, indeed, a global cop anymore. But “just as the state that refrains from applying force is said to betray its weakness,” the prominent IR theorist Kenneth Waltz (1967: ...
The sides start thinking seriously about peace only when they reach a military equilibrium
Developments over Syria and the effectiveness of diplomacy as a means of resolving a conflict situation reviewed by
Anatoly Adamishin
, president emeritus of the non-governmental Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of ...
... common approaches, which is the key for the international community.
. . .
No one country can solve problems which are becoming transborder, transnational, common threats and challenges.
President Obama spoke about enforcement of the Syrian chemical weapons agreement that you and Secretary Kerry came up with. Where do you think the U.N.Security Council resolution will end up? Do you see some enforcement mechanism being built into the resolution?
The chemical weapons problem in Syria ...
According to European and Russian experts on the Middle East, use of force against Syria is fraught with dire consequences.
On September 23, Russian International Affairs Council held a meeting of analysts from European Council of Foreign Relations and Russian Middle East experts.
According to
Daniel Levy
, ECFR Director of the Middle ...
In recent days, the official U.S. position on the situation in Syria has experienced certain transformation. As we know, Russia called for putting Syrian chemical weapons storages under international control which must ultimately lead to its destruction. It is worth noting that the Moscow's proposal hit the ...