On November 9-10, 2017, London hosted a Euro-Atlantic Security Leadership Group meeting. The Group was created to discuss practical steps to decrease the armed conflict threat in Europe and to prevent global nuclear war.
On November 9-10, 2017, London hosted a Euro-Atlantic Security Leadership Group meeting. The Group was created to discuss practical steps to decrease the armed conflict threat in Europe and to prevent global nuclear war.
The Group consists of the heads of states, ministers of...
How to move the world away from the brink of a nuclear apocalypse
Dmitry Stefanovich:
Nuclear-Cybernetic Systems
September 20, 2017 was marked by a historic event that took place at the UN General Assembly: the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) was opened for signing. Like the rest of the official and unofficial nuclear powers (as well as a number of their allies), Russia announced in advance that it would not support this international agreement as it does not correspond with...
... necessarily effective in a globalizing world, the Russian Federation has adopted these hybrid strategies as a new and concrete measure in preventing a loss of power. The international community realizes that this new methodology poses serious domestic and international security and stability risks. A continuation of these actions may serve to undermine the democratic and liberal order that much of the west has cemented into the perceived status quo. Due to Russia’s undeniable power and influence, affected ...
Fifth Task Force Position Paper Released
Fifth Task Force Position Paper Released
A group of prominent Members and Supporters of the Pan-European
Task Force on Cooperation in Greater Europe
,
including former foreign and defence ministers and senior officials from Russia, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Poland, Germany, Italy and Finland
has joined forces to appeal to the leadership of the countries in the Euro-Atlantic area to
halt the downward spiral in West-Russia relations and manage its risks...
OSCE member countries — the most powerful military nations — are hard put to keep the growing terrorist pressure in check. Why is that happening?
The threat of terrorism and extremism will undoubtedly be among the priorities on the agenda of the upcoming NATO summit in Brussels. The organization’s members justly consider terrorism to be one of the most formidable challenges. Many of them have fallen victim to terrorist attacks. The threat is fueled by the crisis of statehood and conflicts in the...
Western media, including official Pentagon news outlets, have been citing a US Central Command report to the effect that “the largest-yield conventional bomb” has been used against a regional Islamic State cell in Afghanistan. What does this mean?
Western media, including
official Pentagon news outlets
, have been citing a US Central Command report to the effect that “the largest-yield conventional bomb” has been used against a regional Islamic State cell in Afghanistan. What does this mean?...
Russia-Turkey relations are having controversial trends, still there is an opportunity to find common points of contact
Anticipating the new tourist season, Turkey is facing a number of new issues that Ankara will have to solve.
Firstly, the Turkish economy was significantly damaged by the decrease of the tourist flow. These days Ankara is undergoing one of the toughest periods in its foreign policy. And it reflects in the tensions between Turkey and the Western countries where most of the tourists...
The chemical incident in Idlib brought to nothing all the last months' efforts, aimed to normalize the situation in Syria
Many experts believed that after the Ukrainian crisis relations between Russia and the US reached the bottom. With the election of Donald Trump there appeared at least moderate hopes on resuming the talks and progress on a number of complex issues. These hopes were buried after the chemical attack in Syria and the American strike against the Syrian Air Force base and the next...
... missile warning system and the fact that the United States is seeking new technical solutions to build its offensive capability beyond the framework of the existing arms limitation treaties.
What Should Russia Do?
Alexey Arbatov
, Head of the Centre for International Security at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences and member of the Russian International Affairs Council
Alexey Arbatov
Both Russia and the United States ...
Even after Trump was elected to the office of President, his continued positive statements about Russia has strengthened expectations that relations between the US and Russia would get better. However, expectations for the normalisation of relations between the two countries have been dampened due to an array of issues. One was the recent resignation of Trump’s National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, on allegations that ‘bargains’ were made during a phone call between him and Russian Ambassador...
