... Riga hosted a regular high-level round-table debate "Riga Dialogue“.
On May 22-23, 2018, Riga hosted a regular high-level round-table debate "Riga Dialogue“.
This year the meeting focused on the following topic: “The New Normal in the Euro-Atlantic Security Order". The meeting was organized by the Latvian Institute of International Affairs with the support of a number of Latvian and international institutional partners, including Russian International Affairs Council.
About fifty experts, diplomats, parliamentarians, and high-ranking officials from many European countries took part in the meeting.
Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and experts including Andrey Kazantsev, ...
... Network (ELN) for conventional and nuclear disarmament, Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) public organization, and Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) formed a younger generation expert working group to elaborate steps that can be taken to ensure Euro-Atlantic security. The group brings together young politicians and experts from Russia, CIS countries, the EU, Canada, and the United States.
In 2014–2017 the meetings were held in Sofia, Riga, Sarajevo, Brussels, Helsinki, Warsaw, and Minsk.
... propaganda follows its own logic, sometimes reducing official positions to absurdity.
Ivan Timofeev:
Russia and NATO: A Paradoxical Crisis
The clash of identities, amplified by growing competition in the digital environment, is the fifth component of the Euro-Atlantic security formula. The West has come to perceive Russia as the main threat to its cybersecurity. Russia, for its part, is taking measures to strengthen its "digital sovereignty." The problem lies in the absence of clear rules for the game, the ease with which incidents in the digital environment ...
On September 14, 2017, Riga, Latvia, hosted an international seminar “The West and Russia: Changing Euro-Atlantic Security Landscapes?”. The seminar was organized by the Latvian Institute of International Affairs. LIIA Director Andris Spruds chaired and mediated the event.
On September 14, 2017, Riga, Latvia, hosted an international seminar “The ...
... unexpected direction, not to mention that it is already
difficult to predict what their cumulative impact might be. It is necessary to
understand this set of parameters clearly and how they might play out in the
future. Which specific factors influence Euro-Atlantic security?
The first
is the imbalance between Russian and NATO forces. The Euro-Atlantic system of
security is asymmetric and bipolar, making it less stable than the symmetric
bipolarity of the Cold War era. However, NATO’s real military capability
declined prior to the Ukrainian crisis because ...
... regulations — the national operating procedures that state aircraft must follow when in the proximity of civilians. Technical support for greater air transparency would also significantly reduce the risk of a mid-air collision.
Europe, the US, and Russia are confronting a range of significant issues today. But none should distract attention from the important goal of identifying a new policy framework, based on existential common interests, that can stop the downward spiral in relations and stabilize Euro-Atlantic security. The practical near-term steps that we have identified here are the right place to begin. We need to start now.
First published in
Project Syndicate
... GLOBSEC attended by CEE presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers, U.S. and European top officials, business leaders, foreign policy experts and journalists.
RIAC was represented by its Program Director Ivan Timofeev, who took part in “Russia and the West” debate with Senior Vice President at the Center for European Policy Analysis Edward Lucas, Stratfor founder George Friedman and AFK Sistema Chief Economist Eugeny Nadorshin. The event program also included presentation of RIAC’s ...
... Rules: On the Current
Crisis of Confidence in Trust in Relations
between Russia and the West
Even before the Ukraine crisis, Russia and the United States were divided on a host of local issues. But they were all discussed separately from the basic treaties ... ... weapons. That informal procedure has been violated.
As a result,
we are sleepwalking towards the dismantlement of the system of Euro-Atlantic security laid down by the Soviet Union and the United States. One can argue long and hard about who threw the first ...
... discussed at the meeting was the role of civil society in establishing peace in Ukraine. The second session was dedicated to the issue of security in the Euro-Atlantic region as a whole.
The meeting was attended by young leaders from Ukraine, Europe, Russia and the United States, representatives of NGOs, research institutes, universities and the business community.
RIAC was represented by its Programme Director Ivan Timofeev and Programme Manager Natalia Yevtikhevich.
The meeting was organized by ...
... continuous high-level dialogue focused on developing specific recommendations on key points relating to the Ukraine crisis and Euro-Atlantic security more generally, integrating political, economic, and security issues.
The Leadership Group would thus constitute ... ... provide a desperately needed vehicle for translating their resolve into action. Its direct ties to US President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and European leaders would distinguish it from existing arrangements.
Initially, the Leadership ...
