Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election has generated an enormous amount of speculation about the future of US foreign policy. Indeed, the campaign rhetoric of the president-elect featured a large number of high-profile statements. Clearly, his real policy should and will be characterized by much greater restraint and caution. Ultimately, the president does not make decisions all by himself. He is constrained by Congress. His opinion is filtered through the sieve of intelligence...
On November 24-25, 2016, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a Russia-Georgia expert meeting on Russia-Georgia cooperation in the area of security. The event was held within the framework of the RIAC and International Center on Conflict and Negotiation (
ICCN
)
(Georgia) project «Assistance to Russia-Georgia Dialogue» with the support of the Human Security Division of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland.
The Russian delegation included Ivan Timofeev...
... with unpredictable consequences. As part of the Baltic Sea Region, Russia has prior experience of constructive cooperation with NATO in the form of providing the Baltic Transit Train in support of non-military deliveries and reverse transit for the International Security Assistance Force with the use of the transportation and logistics infrastructure owned by Russia and the Baltic States, as well as in the form of mutual overflights on the basis of the Treaty on Open Skies, even during the Ukrainian ...
On November 12-14 Abu Dhabi (UAE) hosted
The Third Annual Abu Dhabi Strategic Debate
, one of the key international platforms for regional and global security issues discussion, debate about long-term tendencies in international relations system development, and global economy.
The event was organized by the Emirates Policy Center and the Atlantic Council (the U.S.), it can boast participation of about 500 experts, diplomats, journalists, social activists, and businessmen from Western Asia and other...
Europe and Russia are anticipating an undeclared tender for a new contract with the Trump administration
For the EU, Donald Trump’s ascension to power poses a challenge, although European leaders are not openly talking about it. The EU is seriously concerned not so much about NATO as a forum for a daily political dialogue with the United States as about the future substance of the north-Atlantic alliance’s policy. Trump has warned the EU that “business as usual” is unacceptable...
On November 16 Sweden’s Ministry of Defense Delegation, namely Jörgen Cederberg, Senior Adviser, Department for Security and International Relations, Ministry of Defense, and Håkan Andersson, Military Adviser, visited Russian International Affairs Council.
During the meeting the following issues were discussed: European security, Russia-NATO relations, Baltic sea region contingent-caused conflict risk reduction, perspective areas of multilateral cooperation in the Arctic.
RIAC informed...
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 challenges to the Alliance, desirable and necessary reforms of the basic NATO institutes and procedures...
On November 9, Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, and Dmitry Danilov, RIAC expert, Head of the European Security Department RAS Institute of Europe, had a meeting with David Kral, Director of the Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, visiting Moscow, to discuss the European security issues, relations between Russia, the Czech Republic and Visegrad Group member states, EU international sanctions towards Russia...
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 Russia an issue in the final communiqué of its Warsaw summit. In comparison with its other strategies including those for the Middle East and terrorism, the alliance has developed a most...
On October 31, 2016 the Russian International Affairs Council in cooperation with the OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions (
OSCE Network
), the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and
International Relations (
RAS
IMEMO
) and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
) held a seminar “European Security: Challenges at the Societal Level.”
The participants of the seminar discussed the draft report prepared by the OSCE Network and addressed...
