On October 20, 2016 the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the National Research University Higher School of Economics, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy and the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung) held an international seminar “The Silk Road Economic Belt: In Search of EU’s and China’s Common Interests in the Field of Security.”
This workshop is the fourth in a series of international events, aimed at analyzing various...
On October 14-16, 2016 London hosted a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the
International Crisis Group
, an international non-governmental organization that concerns itself with analysis, prevention and resolution of crisis situations in various regions of the world.
The Board of Trustees is composed of former government officials and diplomats, business leaders, and leading experts in international affairs. RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov represents Russia on the Board of Trustees.
The...
The Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA) has posted on its website a report, which is a follow-up publication to the annual
Riga Dialogue Conference
that took place last May. The list of authors of the publication includes RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev and RIAC Program Manager Elena Alekseenkova.
The report reflects a wide array of perceptions and interests among a variety of stakeholders in the Euro-Atlantic area, offers insights for increased mutual trust, as well as outlines...
“
The Hacked World Order
” by Adam Segal, director of the program on digital and cyberspace policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, was published in the early 2016 and is one of the latest attempts to cover all the events in the cyber domain. This is an extremely ambitious task executed by one of the best professionals in the area. Segal breaks up his narrative into several chapters, which taken together simultaneously constitute the pillars and sore points of what he calls the “hacked...
On September 28, 2016 London hosted the latest in a series Strategic Insight Breakfast Briefing, organized by the European Leadership Network (
ELN
) for the diplomatic corps in London and representatives of public organizations and research centers.
RIAC President Igor Ivanov, former US Senator Sam Nunn and former UK Secretary of State for Defense Lord Des Browne were among the speakers at the Briefing.
The participants of the Briefing discussed the state of the Euro-Atlantic security, relations...
On September 11, 2001, for the first time since 1941, the United States of America, the world’s most powerful state suffered an attack on its own territory. Moreover, the events of 9/11 became the largest act of terror in the history of humankind. That day, nearly 3,000 people tragically lost their lives in New York, Washington, DC, and Pennsylvania.
On the evening of that same day, the US President George W. Bush called it an act of terror and vowed to “to defend freedom and all that...
A commentary on “L’endiguement renforcé: les politiques de sécurité de la France et des États-Unis en Afrique” IFRI report, February 2016
A commentary on “L’endiguement renforcé: les politiques de sécurité de la France et des États-Unis en Afrique” IFRI
report
, February 2016.
One of the most recent trends in African affairs has been the growing security cooperation between France and the United States, termed by IFRI as “
reinforced containment...
On September 14, 2016 RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov met with Australian Ambassador to Russia Peter Tesch and Head of the Political Section of the Embassy Ted Burgell.
The participants of the meeting discussed bilateral Russian-Australian relations, security issues in the Asia-Pacific, and prospects for cooperation between the two countries in solving problems of global governance (ensuring global food supply security, above all).
... and higher as having “a limited capability” to combat IBMs
[9]
.
Russia’s Fears
So what is the Russian side afraid of? Russia’s concerns are most fully formulated in the BMD-related materials of the
2012 Moscow Conference on International Security
. They boil down to the following points:
The third and now cancelled fourth phase of the EPAA threatens Russian IBMs and SLBMs (submarine-launched ballistic missile) in various flight trajectories.
Improvement of the SM-3 family ...
The final and long-awaited decision to deploy the U.S. THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) mobile missile defence complexes in South Korea
was announced
on July 8. The stationing of these purely defence systems, which are ideally suited for the Korean theatre of military operations-to-be, has been met with strong criticism from the
Chinese
and
Russian
missions, with experts accusing the United States of spurring on the arms race in the peninsula. Why is this?
The US Army’s THAAD...
