... transformation of the international system. New centers of power are rising, the impact of the information revolution on mankind’s activities is growing dramatically, and regional integration processes are intensifying. Most of the traditional international security threats are still present, while new challenges to the world community are on the horizon.
In an era of growing “turbulence”
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in world politics and amidst a global shift of influence from the West to the East, we ...
On June 23-25, the
Institute for National Security Studies
of the Tel Aviv University (Israel) held an annual international conference on arms control in the changing world where nymerous experts, analytics, diplomats and journalists from Israel, the U.S., Germany, India, Turkey and other countries participated.
Russia was represented by RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov who spoke with the report on "What has happened to the U.S.-Russian nuclear arms control regime?"
Washington and Beijing are Trying to Keep their Differences on Security in Check
One of the outcomes of the Chinese military delegation’s visit to the United States led by the Vice Chairman of the country’s Central Military Commission, General Fan Changlong, was the launch of a new cooperation mechanism between the ground forces of the two countries. While we shouldn’t read too much into what these agreements could mean – they are hardly ground-breaking – they do...
On June 11-12, 2015 RIAC President Igor Ivanov and Director General Andrey Kortunov spoke at the annual conference of the
European Council on Foreign Relations
held under the title "The Crisis in European Order".
The event was attended by over 100 ECFR members and 50 guests who discussed the plentiful challenges currently threatening the European Order, among them Ukraine crisis, cross-border migration, energy security, financial crisis in Greece, possible UK withdrawal from the European...
On May 27, 2015 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) in cooperation with the
Valdai International Discussion Club
, will hold an open webinar entitled “Russia and NATO: Enemies Once Again?”
The newest publication in the Valdai Papers series is devoted to analysis of the concept of New Atlanticism, the alternative Atlantic security system that has been developing since the end of the Cold war.
On May 13–14, the Turkish city of Antalya hosted a meeting of NATO foreign...
Stephen Kotkin
, professor of Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton comments on the current state of Russia-U.S. relations, the roots of tensions, and reasons of misunderstanding.
Could you please give an assessment to current condition of Russian-American relations and comment of the roots of it? Would you agree that the current state of the Russia-U.S. relations is the most alarming ever?
I don’t think either side expected the situation that we have now....
On May 12, 2015, US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Sochi, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov. The significance of Kerry’s visit should not be understated – US-Russia relations have once again deteriorated over the past year due to disagreements over the settlement of the crisis in Ukraine. How did the meeting go in light of such fundamental political differences? Aside from the crisis in Ukraine, what else was discussed?...
The week-long visit to the USA by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has left a quite ambiguous impression. One gets the sense that it was the Americans themselves who most needed this visit. In a situation where the US pivot towards Asia
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proclaimed in 2011 is proceeding much more slowly than expected, now it is a time when the Americans need to actively demonstrate unity and mutual understanding with their Asian allies on issues of regional security and economic cooperation. Japan, which has...
The Ninth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) has opened in New York. Representatives of NPT member nations meet once every five years to discuss the current state of nuclear arsenals and prospects for reducing them, the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and the development of peaceful nuclear energy. Despite the relative success of the previous conference that took place in 2010, experts are now forecasting a lack of progress at best...
The Future of Japanese Military Power
The Future of Japanese Military Power
Today, the Asia-Pacific region once again faces the Japanese question: is Japan a peace-broker or peace-breaker? What is the future for Japanese military power? So far, there are two main views on its military reforms. On the one hand, Abe’s aspiration is seen as a manifestation of a resurgent Japanese nationalism that used to drive the imperial project. On the other hand, these reforms are presented as a necessary...
