... should be the central figure of a new strategy – Africa.
This policy paper will delve into EU-Russia-Africa collaboration within the context of the newly founded AfCFTA.
Exploring the opportunities presented by the Agreement would allow the EU and Russia to seek new development and business ventures with the continent, as well as prepare the legal framework for spearheading updated trade agreements with the rapidly developing continent. Opening the EAEU market to African countries could also help the continent achieve its goal of economic diversification and added-value chains.
The paper will focus on determining the potential, capabilities and opportunities all three parties have to offer. Additionally,...
... Belarus, Armenia and Azerbaijan belong to ‘European circles’ who the EU would like to exercise greater influence on. However, Belarus refuses being simply a peripheral ‘policy-taker’ of the declining EU in detriment of its arrangements within the EAEU.
Thus, Russia lacks sufficient power to create a viable unifying project in the post-USSR, and has been unable to consolidate the post-Soviet territory under its control. Even though the disunity of the post-USSR and inadequate unity of the EAEU may be attributed ...
... Union. Armenia and the Kyrgyz Republic joined the Union in 2015. The following year an agreement was signed on a free-trade area with Vietnam, followed by agreements on trade and economic cooperation with China, Iran, and so on. However, the share of Russia’s EAEU partners in its foreign trade turnover at the end of 2019 was less than 8 per cent (to compare, Germany’s EU partners make up 58 per cent of its foreign trade turnover). The recent spats between Moscow and Minsk on energy clearly point to the fragility ...
... region, it still maintains a presence in the form of underground groups that could become active at any time, joining forces with the radical Tajik opposition and Uyghur separatists. Cells of the Islamic State (ISIS) (a terrorist organisation banned in Russia) also operate in the region.
Kazakhstan: Effective Peacekeeping Measures
Alexander Yermakov:
Challenges to Eurasian Security in the Coming Decade
The main conduits of terrorist ideology in Kazakhstan are Islamist movements and organisations. ...
... any positive effect on the country’s development. However, the forecast is right to stress that whatever political changes do take place with regard to Moldova's political situation, it is improbable that this will push the country's economy towards Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). The main question in Moldova’s relations with the European Union at present is whether the country’s leadership is prepared to reform the political system effectively and whether the European Union is prepared for dialogue with all the Moldovan ...
... Greece in the project. These developments make it possible to
talk about
a thaw in Russia–Bulgaria relations and indicate that Russia has gained additional support for its influence in the region.
Yaroslav Lissovolik, Ekaterina Chimiris:
Serbia–EAEU: Integration Prospects in a Free Trade Area
Nevertheless, Russia is far from being the only actor in the Southeast Europe energy sector. In 2018, construction was completed on the Trans-Anatolian pipeline delivering gas from the Caspian via Turkey to Greece, and the
Trans Adriatic Pipeline
project owned by ...
... Latvia’s Saeima. However, none of those developments had any noticeable consequences.
Thus, the prediction that the political systems in the Baltic states would be preserved in spite of seemingly revolutionary election results panned out. The anti-Russian narrative continues to be a factor that determines the foreign policy of the Baltic states and has a significant influence on their internal life.
As predicted, the Lithuanian presidential elections demonstrated that the people were looking for ...
Despite international security problems that overshadow Caucasus challenges, the region retains its independent significance
In late 2016, the Russian International Affairs Council published
The Evolution of the Post-Soviet Space: Past, Present and Future
, a major anthology attempting to conceptualise development trends in both domestic and foreign policies in the newly independent states ...
... Therefore, the main issue in the further development of the Union State is whether these dividends can make up for the costs the sides incur in the process of maintaining the union.
An Audit of Integration Processes
Elena Kuzmina:
Free Trade Zones with the EAEU
The incompleteness of the Union State’s governing institutions and legal framework means that the contradictions that periodically emerge in Russia–Belarus relations cannot be resolved entirely through the Union State mechanisms and guided by Union State logic. As a result, controversial issues either remain unsettled or get resolved through political compromises at the level of the leaders ...
... journal “Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs” (Turkey), an English language journal on foreign affairs. The materials included in this report were initially published in a special issue of
PERCEPTIONS
. The paper presents the views of Russian and Turkish experts in the field of International Relations on the relationship between the two sides with a focus on key areas for cooperation. The report provides an analysis of bilateral economic ties between the two countries, strategic challenges ...
