Interview with Andrey Kortunov and Zhao Huasheng
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine drags on. In response to France’s President Emmanuel Macron floating ... ... security situation, which is not only the most dangerous time since the end of the cold war, but the most dangerous period since the cold war. People often raise the question... ..., like all wars it has caused enormous suffering on both sides, with hundreds of thousands of military personnel and civilians killed and wounded, cities and houses reduced...
... foreseeable future because the price would be too high for both sides
Introduction
In 2014, Russia and the West entered into a serious conflict due to the Ukrainian crisis. At... ... lost all remnants of partnership of the previous 20 years and entered a stage of a new Cold War. As distinct from the Soviet Union, Russia found itself in a much more vulnerable... ... for censoring reports about the virus during the early stages of its spread, its refusal to cooperate with scientists from the Centre for Disease Control to assist its...
... possible today? What needs to be done today to prevent nuclear war in the future? Will the recent election have an impact on US arms control policy? Director, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Corresponding Member, RAS; Professor, RAS (Russia); Member of the International Advisory Council of the Luxembourg Forum answers these and other most pressing issues of the nuclear security and arms control today.
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No short cut to a more constructive relationship exists
U.S.-Russian relations are not only in bad shape—very bad shape—but destructively and dangerously so. As each side sinks into deeper ... ... something larger is being missed. The ignored price they and the rest of the world will eventually pay for their escalating Cold War is immense. At the top of the list, unnoticed, a nuclear world is slowly slipping out of control. No longer two, but ...
... Ivanov:
In Search of a Common Home
Just six months ago, predictions of imminent revolution in world politics were all the rage in Russia and beyond. Observers saw plenty of signs of impending cataclysms: the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, the ... ... combustion engine (ICE) and an electric battery. In our case, the old model of geopolitical confrontation between East and West (the Cold War model) plays the role of an ICE. This model is expensive and outdated, but did provide sufficient stability and predictability,...
Even after Trump was elected to the office of President, his continued positive statements about Russia has strengthened expectations that relations between the US and Russia would get better. However, expectations for the ... ... demonstrated until the 2000's.
The US, on the other hand, assumed that the void in the sphere of geopolitics that emerged after the Cold War could only be filled in by itself, with all political, economic, and military factors in its favour. This situation, ...
... German president, has called the current escalation of tensions created by increasingly worsening dynamic between America and Russia “more dangerous” than the Cold War, it makes absolute sense to me that the current situation is desperately calling for a deeper reflection on our civilizational ... ... Europe and the Middle East, dates back its great strategic importance to The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem’s settlement there in 16th century, which was a military religious elite of the Christian Europe defending its gates ...
The threat of nuclear war between Russia and the West, long relegated to Cold War history, reappeared last year as the crisis in East-West relations escalated.
Russian strategic bombers now fly long-range patrols near the coast of the US and its NATO allies, while Russian missile tests and military exercises involving simulated ...
... developed through decades of dealing with the new Russia and with agreements and forums and various different ways that the relationship can be managed. So, in many ways the relationship is very troubling but in other ways it’s not on the scale of the Cold War.
Do you see any ways to restore the mutual trust?
Tom Graham:
Russia — USA. It’s not just Ukraine
(In Russian)
In Washington, on the one hand, people are calling for stronger measures in the relationship with Russia, and on the other hand, people don’t want to have to confront the situation because of, as I ...
Keep Calm. Close Encounters Will Be Frequent
One of the main pieces of international news in recent days has been the cool meeting between the Russian interceptor and US reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic. This quite ordinary episode for today’s “cold world” has been quite the focus in the domestic media. Let us try to get to the bottom of this matter, first taking a look ...
