... concrete recommendations on some of the world’s most pressing security challenges, from de-escalating nuclear tensions and fighting terrorism to cybersecurity and managing global migration patterns.
This year RIAC will be a partner with Friends of Europe in the global online brainstorm “Debating Security Plus”.
The online debating aims to yield concrete recommendations on some of the world’s most pressing security challenges, from de-escalating nuclear tensions and fighting terrorism to cybersecurity ...
... Eastern Europe were a big mistake. From a military point of view, they generated measly dividends for the security of the US and its allies. Their threat to Russia’s security was also highly questionable. But media speculation on this topic in Eastern Europe and Russia itself had extremely damaging consequences for mutual trust. The same can be said about the adapted Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE Treaty). The loss of this important arms control instrument was a major miscalculation, critically ...
... possibility of new sanctions being imposed on Russia by the US, it is the European view that is worth looking at. Dr Richard Connolly, Associate Fellow for Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House (UK) shares his thoughts on economic ties between Russia and the European Union.
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Richard Connolly
How do you think will possible new US sanctions affect economic ties between the EU and Russia?
In this case we can only guess. If we look at the evidence from the last few years there has been deterioration,...
... program Erasmus+.
On December 18
Sant’ Anna
School of Advanced Studies
in Pisa
hosted an international conference «Overlapping Easts: From Shared Neighborhood to Globalized Borderlands» under the auspices of EU international program Erasmus+.
European and American scientists who focus on Post-Soviet space issues and its interactions with European Union took part in the conference. Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, made a report at the opening session of the conference.
... Studies, with the support of Academy of Global Governance and Torino World Affairs Institute at the University of Torino held an international training session for the representatives of analytical centers, experts, and journalists «The Resilience of Russia’s Global Outreach: Challenges and Opportunities».
On December 13-15
European University Institute in Florence
under the auspices of
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
, with the support of
Academy of Global Governance
and
Torino World Affairs Institute
at the University of Torino held an international training ...
On November 8 in Berlin Friedrich Ebert Stiftung headquarters hosted a presentation of the report on Ukraine’s future scenarios prepared by an international group of experts in 2016-2017.
On November 8 in Berlin
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
headquarters hosted a presentation of the report on Ukraine’s future scenarios prepared by an international group of experts in 2016-2017.
The authors of the report, as well as German experts on Ukraine and German Federal Office authorities took part in the discussion...
... itself over negative emotion. A diplomatic initiative right now would be futile and misguided; but the manifest threats to stability may eventually force the parties to talk, as they did in the Cold War.
If we are to re-establish a modicum of trust, Russia, Europe and the USA will need to address the fundamental issue which has led to the present rupture and which they have failed to address for the past quarter century: the “In Betweens”, the Russian periphery. Trust is entirely absent at the moment,...
... give way to a rational dialogue on the parameters of vulnerability as well as measures of trust and control. Given the inertia of the US cyber scandal, such dialogue could be initiated by Germany.
The sixth component concerns peripheral conflicts in Russia and Europe. The most serious of these is the situation in Donbass and the civil war in Syria. In both conflicts, Russia and the West are on opposing sides. Symptomatically, even the common threat coming from the Islamic » State and other radicals does little ...
... (Ukraine and Crimea) which the European Union shouldn’t be concerned with.
The idea of having a strong NATO in order to keep us from danger is very noble, but the NATO countries are not happy paying any money at all. Why should America pay for it?
Russia is a European state. So, when I get across when they talk about Europe as the EU, I say: ‘I am a citizen of the biggest country in Europe and that’s not in the EU, and never will be.’ But Russia obviously is a bastion of civilisation. Just as Central ...
... Middle East and North Africa.
The event was opened by Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Fredrik Wesslau, Director of the Wider Europe Programme at ECFR.
The experts discussed regional actors’ stances in the Middle East conflicts, as well as Russian and European Union’s attitudes to the Syrian, Libyan, and Yemeni crises. European and Russian representatives assessed current processes and possible developments in the Middle East. The experts also discussed possible vectors of cooperation in the region....
