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...
In the past 25 years, Africa has made great strides towards development and peace, but conflict is still present in many places on the continent
REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
Dmitry Borisov:
A Difficult Peace: The UN and the Challenges
of Modern Peacekeeping
To avoid relapse into all-out war, a peace operation needs to be deployed quickly and be ready to bear casualties in the face of rampant violence. The UN — often cumbersome, bureaucratic, slow to react to crises, and averse to personnel losses — may...
On March 1, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, spoke at the
Geneva Centre for Security Policy
.
The lecture was devoted to the prospects of relations between Russia and the West in the conext of the EU crisis and new U.S. administration.
Andrey Kortunov also discussed institutional cooperation between RIAC and the Centre with its authorities and took part in the international school for non-profit organizations' leaders on strategic communications, which is held at the centre on March, 1-2...
On February 18, Munich hosted Euro-Atlantic Security Leadership Group meeting within the framework of
53rd Munich Security Conference
. The Group aims to discuss practical steps to reduce the threat of military conflict in Europe. It unites heads of state, foreign ministers and members of parliaments of many European countries and the U.S., as well as international organizations representatives, public figures and experts.
The event covered the renunciation of nuclear weapons, reducing nuclear combat...
