The northern countries are looking for someone to have a fight with
The northern countries are looking for someone to have a fight with
For several post-war decades, including the Cold War years, the northern European region remained relatively stable and peaceful. The political leaders of countries in Northern Europe took some important initiatives at the beginning of the 1990s, aimed at ensuring that the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia did not have a destabilising...
The struggle for offshore resources has intensified in East Asia, and Japan-China tensions seem of particular concern. Due to its alliance treaty with Japan, the United States is also involved in the conflict. The Japanese Ministry of Defense has, for the first time ever, qualified the situation around the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands as “neither peace nor war, but some ‘grey zone’”
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. The situation is unfolding against a backdrop of a quantitative and qualitative improvement...
Shuttle diplomacy exercised by European leaders gives us a phantom of a chance that we must not overlook
The first impression from the Munich conference is that relations between Russia and the West are beginning to resemble a game of chicken. It is as if two airplanes are rushing towards each other head-on, and both crews refuse to deviate from their planned route. The only way for one side to win is for his opponent to lose. It is a virtually impossible task to make concessions or for both opponents...
MUNICH, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Military operations can not eradicate terrorism and countries all around the world should cooperate to fight the war against terrorism though a multi-pronged strategy, an expert said on Saturday.
Andrey V. Kortunov, director general of Russian International Affairs Council, told Xinhua in an exclusive interview that, "terrorism is a complex phenomenon, and it can not be fought be military forces only."
The interview was conducted on the sidelines of the 51st Munich...
A working lunch was held on February 7, 2015 during the Munich Security Conference, during which top government leaders, diplomats, and experts discussed a set of measures for building the new security architecture in the Euro-Atlantic region. The lunch was organized by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), the European Leadership Network, and the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC).
The RIAC was represented at the lunch by its President Igor Ivanov, its General Director Andrei Kortunov,...
A round table discussion entitled “Russia and the West: the security relationship” was held on 6 February as part of the
Munich Security Conference
. The event was organised by the
European Leadership Network
, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (
NTI
) and the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC).
A key feature of the event was the dialogue between current and retired heavyweights in the field of the foreign policy of leading countries in the Euro-Atlantic region and new leaders...
Instead of a new Cold War, someday we could face a real, large-scale military conflict
Since the crisis in Ukraine began, many have claimed that a new Cold War between Russia and the West already exists. This rhetoric, used even by high-profile politicians, in my opinion, is driven mostly by emotions and is meant to justify difficult positions taken by one or the other side.
I am convinced that no Cold War of the type we experienced in the second half of the 20th century can be repeated today....
RIAC in partnership with its corporate member Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU) has issued a Handbook of Military and Political Research in Russia authored by RIAC President and RAS Associate Member Igor Ivanov, editor-in-chief, Head of MSLU Chair of Political Science Vassily Belozerov, President of the Board of Russia’s Military Experts Alexander Vladimirov and a team of RIAC executive editors.
The Handbook structurally presents data on Russian analysts and organizations engaged in...
A real cold war is still far away but the sides are working hard to make it happen
As it comes to a close, the year 2014 has seen relations between Russia and the collective West reach an emotional level if not seen during the time of the Cold War, then certainly during the periods of detente. Hence, close attention is being paid to any sort of military activities, with the Western media focused on the allegedly increasing intensity of Russian air force missions. Among other works published, in...
Without values and ideological guidelines, any pragmatic activity carried out by a country resembles “rats in the garbage”
For over 20 years the idea of building a Greater Europe has been a significant landmark along the way to cooperation in the Euro-Atlantic region. However, building a Greater Europe faces at least three fundamental problems:
1. How best to resolve the “security dilemma” between Russia and NATO, as well as that between Russia and the Euro-Atlantic community as a whole?...
