... extreme weather events, natural disasters and the effects of climate change. Moreover, experts offer pessimistic forecasts: in 2019, the risks will only increase as a result of the lack of collective will and the growing divisions in the global community.
Clearly, the issue of international information security (IIS) today is not just pressing, but burning. The problem is relevant to virtually all participants in international relations and requires a political solution.
At the same time, Russia ...
The Middle East is in a much more complicated and difficult situation now than Europe was back in 1975, and it appears that replicating the Helsinki Decalogue in the region would be unproductive
Today’s world is awash with ideas and proposals on how to stabilize the situation in the troubled Middle East. Since the beginning of the so-called Arab Spring, numerous groups of politicians, analysts, public figures and journalists ...
The greatest challenge of our times is a deficit of solidarity between nation states, including those of them, which are entrusted by the United Nations Charter with a special responsibility to maintain global peace and security
Reflecting on problems of 2018 and on challenges of 2019, it is tempting to point at the current US Administration as the greatest international problem of today....
Franco-Russian Conversation with Andrey Kortunov and Michel Duclos
On 25 November, Russia seized 24 Ukrainian sailors in the Kerch Strait, which connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. It is the first open clash between the two countries since 2014. What does this mean? Will it escalate? ...
On November 21, 2018, Timur Makhmutov, RIAC Deputy Director of Programs, met with Rabih El-Haddad, Director of Division for Multilateral Diplomacy at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, and Philip Ober, Deputy Program Manager of the department.
On November 21, 2018, Timur Makhmutov, RIAC Deputy Director of Programs, met with Rabih El-Haddad, Director of Division for Multilateral ...
... According to the statement following the meetings, the Russian side reaffirmed its commitment to sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Syria, as well as its focus on effective promotion of an inclusive inter-Syrian dialogue based on the UN Security Council Resolution 2254, as well as the decisions of the Syrian National Dialogue Congress in Sochi.
On October 26, a delegation of the Syrian High Negotiations Committee headed by Nasr al-Hariri arrived in Moscow and was received at the ...
The New Round of U.S. Sanctions
The withdrawal of the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear programme has once again exacerbated the issue of sanctions against Iran. Donald Trump’s decision on the JCPOA means ...
On August 14-17, Accademia Konrad Adenauer and "Villa Collina" (Italy) welcome international expert meeting "Russia-Ukraine Conflict - Will UN Peacekeeping Mission Be Created?" that involves representatives from Germany, Russia, and Ukraine
On August 14-17, Accademia Konrad Adenauer and "Villa Collina" (Italy) welcome international expert meeting "Russia-Ukraine Conflict ...
Chemical Weapons Expert Analyzes 7th JIM report
On November 16,
the Security Council
failed to
renew
for another year the mandate
of the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism (hereinafter “JIM”) set to expire
on November 17. The US draft was rejected by Russian veto (voting 11 in favour,
2 against, 2 abstained). The Russian ...
How to cure the chronic paralysis of the Security Council?
To paraphrase the beginning of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina: all effective structures are alike; each ineffective structure is ineffective in its own way. The problems with the effectiveness of the UN Security Council are in many ways unique, as ...
