On December 10-11, 2014, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov visited Beijing to take part in an international roundtable on regional and global security sponsored by the China Foundation for International and Strategic Studies and attended by key foreign policy experts, former diplomats and statesmen from China, Australia, India, Singapore, the United States, South Korea and Japan.
The participants discussed modern trends in development of international relations, security in Northeast and Southeast...
Tatyana Parkhalina, Dmitry Danilov and Andrey Baikov discuss the situation
NATO and Kiev representatives are to meet in Brussels on 2–3 December 2014 for political consultations on Ukraine’s full membership in the North Atlantic Alliance. But how realistic is such a discussion in the light of the current internal and foreign policy challenges facing the Kiev authorities? What is the likelihood of a clear and final positive decision being made with regard to Ukraine’s membership...
On November 27, 2014, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov made a report on the role of public diplomacy in international crisis settlement at the international conference “
Power and Influence: New Forms of Diplomacy
” held in Paris by the
Maison de la Radio
and
College d'Etudes Mondiales
of the La Fondation Maison des sciences de l'Homme.
The event was attended by diplomats, experts and journalists from France, Japan, China, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Russia.
Interview with Ian Kearns
Recently the European Leadership Network issued an intriguing
report
analyzing military encounters between Russian and West in 2014 after the onset of the Ukrainian crisis. The RIAC team asked Dr. Ian Kearns, ELN Director, to shed some light on the methodology and tools used to create the report. Some questions on the period of the Cold War and the future of Russian-Western military coexistence also arose.
The first question is about the methodology of your research....
Russia Needs a Step Forward
Although Moscow's official documents and statements consider Hanoi a key Asian partner, the reality of the bilateral relationship after the breakup of the USSR has actually been inertia, thereby opening opportunities for the U.S.A. and the People's Republic of China (PRC) to gain a strong foothold in Vietnam. With Russia once again intent on achieving a meaningful presence in Asia-Pacific, it appears appropriate to analyze the role of a strategic partnership with Vietnam...
On November 18, 2014 in Washington, DC, the German Marshall Fund of the United States held seminar “
Helsinki+40: the Significance for Transatlantic Relations
”, the second one in the series initiated by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly within
project “Helsinki+40.”
Last September, a similar event
took place in Moscow
. The Washington session was attended by GMF President Karen Donfreid, OSCE PA President Ilkka Kanerva, Cochairman of “Helsinki+40” project Joao...
On November 6-7, 2014 in Tokyo, RIAC and the Tokyo Foundation held international conference "Russian-Japanese Strategic Dialogue."
Lead by Diplomacy Chair at MGIMO-University Ambassador
Alexander Panov
, the Russian team included Head of Oriental Studies Chair at MGIMO-University
Dmitry Streltsov
, Ambassador
Valery Sukhinin,
Deputy Director of MSU Institute for Asian and African Studies
Andrey Karneyev
, MGIMO-University Professor
Sergey Chugrov
, Guest Researcher of Hosai University...
RIAC Report #16
The dramatic developments in Ukraine in 2014 have once again demonstrated the relevance of the cooperative crisis management tools and mechanisms of the OSCE.
Issues of strengthening and reforming the OSCE are once again part of the European agenda.
The 40th anniversary of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe represents an important milestone in the development of the organization and provides an occasion for a frank discussion about the problems...
There’s Still Time to Prevent Chaos in World Politics
President Putin’s speech at the recent Valdai Club meeting in Sochi evoked a strong, and somewhat contradictory, reaction from both Russian and foreign observers. It was an extremely frank speech that touched upon a wide range of issues. Everyone who listened to the speech and the subsequent Q&A session seemed to hear only what they wanted to hear.
Some observers concluded that the Russian leader had lost all hope of re-establishing any...
On October 23, 2014, the Russian International Affairs Council received a delegation of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (
CPAFFC
) to hold an expert meeting on
Russian-Chinese Relations in the Ukraine Crisis Context
.
The Chinese side was represented by CPAFFC Secretary General Zhou Xinzheng, Director of CPAFFC Department for European Relations Zhao Jun, CPAFFC Council members Wu Dahui, Mo Zhaojie, Chen Bo, Chen Shijie, Kong Xiangzhi and Chan Hiu Tung, as...
