... issues areas is also important for another reason: to help stabilize the relationship and buffer against conflict in the future. The analyses that follow examine prospects for Russia-U.S. cooperation in several crucial regions and fields: economics, energy, the Arctic, Euro-Atlantic security, the Middle East, strategic stability, cybersecurity, and countering terrorism and extremism. The report offer concrete, actionable recommendations in each area.
Contributors
: Heather A. Conley, William Courtney,...
... 2015 and 2016
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In a Maslovian hierarchy of [international security] issues, the climate crisis surely represents (with the possible exception of nuclear war) the greatest existential threat to human society.
The issue is doubly pressing with developments in the oil-&-gas industry and with oil ...