... needed, the EU’s major powers chose to enlarge their union into the area of the USSR’s former vital interests. They steered a course of taking unilateral actions that served their own misconstrued national interests solely and of undermining the USA’s unquestionable leadership on the global financial market, in international trade and in setting the global agenda.
From the very outset, the political élites of the EU and its leading member states made a huge strategic mistake in their assessment ...
The Biden administration will not accomplish a lot if it attempts to resurrect the US-China-Russia triangle
Let's face it - no US-China-Russia triangle exists now. Instead, for a couple of years we observed the US policy of "dual containment" with Washington applying more and more pressure on both Beijing and Moscow. This pressure has become an important factor cementing the Chinese-Russian strategic partnership.
This situation is a clear strategic setback for Washington. Since at least...
Even a partial restoration of transatlantic unity under a President Biden will be a blow to the official Kremlin narrative about the inexorable movement of the international system toward a polycentric world order
For several long years now, the European Union has been waging onerous trench warfare on two fronts. On the eastern front, Brussels has been in conflict with a malign Moscow since 2014: refusing to repeal sanctions against Russia, deflecting all the Kremlin’s new information attacks,...
... developments in that area. Much will depend on Tehran itself being willing to resume the dialogue. Pro-Israeli lobbyists will have little influence on the White House, but Biden is unlikely to abolish Trump's decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and to recognise Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights. At the same time, Israel should be getting ready for the new administration to put major pressure on it regarding the West Bank settlements. Some changes will certainly be seen in U....
On November 10, Russian-American Business and Culture Council (RABCC) held an online workshop on the impact of the U.S. elections on Russia-the U.S. relations
On November 10, Russian-American Business and Culture Council (RABCC) held an online workshop on the impact of the U.S. elections on Russia-the U.S. relations.
Natalya Vyakhireva, RIAC Program Manager, spoke at the workshop. Other speakers of the workshop included Professor Valerie Sperling, Department of Political Science, Clark University;...
... politicians and experts do attempt to paint a more complex picture focusing on both the similarities
and
the differences between America’s two strategic opponents. A short while ago, presidential candidate Joe Biden also said that Russia is currently the USA’s principal threat, while China is America's key competitor.
There is a subtle distinction here. So what exactly is the difference between a competitor and an enemy? A competitor generally plays by the rules, yet is also willing to break these rules ...
It is time for Moscow to decide on an algorithm for providing economic aid to Damascus
The ninth year of internal armed conflict has brought new challenges to Syria. According to
data from the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
published on September 23, 2020, the damage done to the Syrian economy by the end of 2019 exceeded USD 442 bn. Still, under sanctions and with no international consensus on how to finance recovery, the country has not only failed to overcome...
... Iranian regimes advancements to overtake the Sunni-led powers. Moreover, Israeli peace deals were struck with three Arab countries – a feat that not even Trump's hardest critics thought possible. Finally, at long last, he moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, a promise that many presidents before him made but never kept.
Trump faced off with two superpowers of Russia and China. He took on the unfair trade policies with China in what many thought would be economic suicide. This was done while simultaneously ...
On November 6, 2020, New York-Russia Public Policy Forum held a virtual event on prospects for Russia-the U.S. relations after the U.S. elections
On November 6, 2020, New York-Russia Public Policy Forum held a
virtual event
on prospects for Russia-the U.S. relations after the U.S. elections.
The event was co-hosted by the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, and PONARS-Eurasia academic network.
About one hundred and forty...
... including a course to contain China, tightening policy towards Russia, and relations with key allies in Europe and Asia.
The discussion participants included: Alan Cafruny, Professor of International Affairs, Faculty of Government at Hamilton College (USA), Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Robert Legvold, Professor Emeritus at Columbia University and Director of the Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative, and Dmitry Suslov, Deputy Director at the Centre ...
