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Peace Initiatives on Ukraine: The Barely Audible Rustle of Peace

... excluded, as partly demonstrated by the international meeting in Jeddah in August 2023. The Global South embarks upon the path of diplomacy In August, it became known about the consultations held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with the participation of the U.S.,... ... Africa on the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict. It is noteworthy that representatives of Ukraine attended the meeting, while Russia did not receive an invitation. It became known from open sources that during the event Saudi Arabia shared its own ideas ...

31.10.2023

Hybrid War and Hybrid Peace

The termination of hybrid wars and their transformation into a hybrid peace is the fundamental problem of modern diplomacy Over the past decade the concept of hybrid warfare has firmly established itself in political rhetoric in the West and in Russia. Russian experts have rightly pointed out the vagueness of the concept, its intersection with other concepts (such as irregular wars), as well as the weak scientific base. Nevertheless, the widespread use of the term can hardly be called accidental....

04.10.2023

If you have mutual trust and mutual respect, you can produce miracles

... parallels available from the Soviet times and today, the possibility of nuclear arms control, and prospects for U.S.-Russian relations. The series of interviews was prepared as part of the Security Index Occasional Paper Series dedicated to US-Soviet/Russian relations in the times of crises and lessons learned from the Esalen Track 1.5 Diplomacy. Océane Van Geluwe: According to you, what are the main differences between the Cold War times and the current times? Dr. Andrey Kortunov: In my perspective, the main difference, especially in Russia, is organizational and management construction....

09.08.2023

Remember Russian School Bell Ringing in Poland?

... Russia a list of real estates that could be transferred to the Polish side to equalize the property balance. However, there was no progress in the negotiations, and Poland preferred to resolve the controversial embassy property issue by force rather than diplomacy. Over the past year, there have been more exotic violations of the existing diplomatic practices. For example, during an official visit of Russian Ambassador Sergey Andreev to the Polish Foreign Ministry Polish diplomats suggested that he openly "condemn" Russia’s policies, promising the support of the Polish authorities in return. However, the situation with the school building ...

03.05.2023

How Russia Can Build Relations With Friendly Countries

Such a large and powerful country really cannot be isolated in terms of foreign policy The sooner we understand that the basis of “soft power” is internal, and not in the activities of Russia’s representatives abroad, the sooner we will be able to benefit from our own objective advantages, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Timofei Bordachev. A year into the conflict between Russia and the West turning into a proxy military confrontation,...

01.03.2023

When Africa Is Just Around the Corner

... apparently scheduled for January 23 in Qatar (again, the start date for Lavrov’s African tour), never took place . It might be that getting Paul Kagame and Félix Tshisekedi to participate in the same event could well be one of the challenges for Russian diplomacy during the preparation for the Summit, given the current antagonism between the DRC and Rwanda. Finally, one cannot but mention an essentially new level of external pressure exerted by all parties on the countries of Africa within the walls ...

02.02.2023

Forgotten and Unforgettable Science Diplomacy: Towards the Anniversary of Lacy-Zarubin Agreement

... whose arrival ushered in a new phase of Soviet-American relations. Yet, the Lacy-Zarubin Agreement remained in force. Science diplomacy is about the small picture Now let’s look at what was spelled out in that agreement. There were quite a few provisions ... ... serve as just another evidence. Happy anniversary, fellow scientists! Take care. This study was financed from the grant of the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 18-78-10123-P); https://rscf.ru/project/18-78-10123/ ; https://rscf.ru/project/21-78-03019/ ...

27.01.2023

Changing Roles: Why Countries of Middle East May be Future’s Best-Suited Mediators?

... transformation stage some 10 years ago, anticipating global changes in the overall international system. As a global leader in the number of conflicts and potential crises, nations of the Middle East know the price of the current changes and strive to use diplomacy, mediation, and pragmatism to mitigate crises, including in the conflict in Ukraine. Mediators Aleksandr Aksenenok: U.S. Policy Case for Middle East under New Conditions On September 21–22, Russia and Ukraine exchanged the largest number of POWs since the conflict’s escalation in February 2022, and the parties stroke a deal in July opening Ukrainian ports for grain exports. Both diplomatic breakthroughs were made possible by good offices ...

17.10.2022

If the World Is One Family, Why Do We Seek to Destroy It?

... What can sovereign nations do and what tools are available? Public diplomacy, second track diplomacy…? I practiced public diplomacy. It’s not a question of belief or faith. We must understand that there are tensions in the world, inescapable tensions.... ... Though the geopolitical situation is in transit, it has predominantly been a unipolar world. At least, I can speak for India and Russia, that we both wanted a multipolar world, and a multipolar world, which is based on equity, based on cooperation, based ...

11.10.2022

Russia-Ukraine, India-Pakistan: Two Existential Conflicts in Eurasia

... Issue 3 (July-September 2022). This is a new and expanded version of the article. For an earlier version see, Kortunov, Andrey. “India-Pakistan and Russia-Ukraine: What If We Compare the Two?” Modern Diplomacy, October 30, 2021. https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2021/10/30/india-pakistan-and-russia-ukraine-what-if-we-compare-the-two/ .

10.10.2022
 

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