... leadership never makes mistakes
“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality”.
Virginia Woolf
Everybody knows that the Russian leadership never makes mistakes. At least, it never recognizes having made any mistakes. Especially, in foreign policy. The current foreign policy is usually presented to the domestic and foreign alike in an explicitly deterministic way — as the only available reaction to multiple independent variables, i.e. to positive or negative changes in the ...
... there was also constantly going development of new territories. This, of course, did not interfere with establishing trade relations with the Russian settlements as well as with the settlers of Canada. But as one knows, if the state is growing, then its foreign policy becomes more rigid and demanding.
The expansionist ideology was established on December of 1823 when James Monroe declared his presidential message to Congress, which would become known as the ''Monroe Doctrine''....
Despite an active domestic political life, primarily related to the presidential elections in November this year, the US elite continues following the foreign policy strategy and realizing the US national interests abroad. Recently, such topics as the Middle East, the world terroristic threat, and the migration crisis have been dominating in the news line. The USA is participating practically in all ...
... Affairs Council Igor Ivanov addressed the 387th session of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament.
In his speech, the head of RIAC expanded on a wide range of issues of Russian foreign policy, including the Ukrainian and Syrian crises, Russia’s relations with the European Union, the United States and China, as well as the issues of training international affairs specialists and of raising the efficiency of expert support ...
... escalation of tension in the Middle East continues. The United States, as one of the main player in the region tries to implement its national interests there with different degree of success. As it is known, among the main challenges of the American foreign policy is the following: fight against "Islamic State", nuclear program in Iran and closure of the civil war in Syria, by way of removal of B. Asad from power. It may seem that on the background of a struggle with conflicts and crisis,...
Romanian new leadership have not succeeded (one may think they lack the will) to impose intrinsically new directions on our foreign policy. The causes may be seen both personal, determined by the nature of those responsible, but also constitutional, influenced by the relations between the state institutions. Moreover, Romania is a state known for its predictable principles ...
The main thrust of media coverage going into 2016 can be described with one single phrase – the situation is complicated, but it will get even worse. Such assessments are typical during times of rapid change. And foreign policy is no exception. The set of problems and challenges is without a doubt far reaching. But in current circumstances it is probably best not to get bogged down in illusory optimism or pessimism. We need to take stock of the achievements made ...
Iraq, Afghanistan, BRICS, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Syria. Various events and phenomena, but all have two things in common: they expose a consistent dimenssion of the international affairs and they are enforced either by undermining the American interests, or simply by ignoring them. Is this the end of US global domination? Let us, for now, just state the fact that this outcome was foreseen, somehow, in the late '90s, when Russia, despite the hardships of Yeltsin regime, actually...
... New World Disorder", Bobo Lo, 2015
Lo B.
Russia and the New World Disorder
. London, Washington D.C.: Chatham House, Brookings Institution, 2015.
The new book by prominent scholar Bobo Lo is a trenchant, hard-hitting study of Moscow’s foreign policy, with numerous distortions and obvious bias. As such, the work is unlikely to promote an adequate and balanced perception of Russian strategy in the West. Even so, it offers the Russian reader a chance to assess, without illusions and undue ...
Foreign policy constitutes one of the strong pillars of every nation-state; I wouldn’t say that is the most important (this depends from state to state), but for sure, is one of the dominants. Hence, the foreign policy decision making process has ...
