... important in some cases because today we cannot understand the architecture of the international set-up without understanding the socio-economic relations between different actors.
Ivan Timofeev:
World Order Or World Anarchy? A Look at
the Modern System of International Relations
The most popular approach in US is the case study. I'll give you an example. For a number of years, I ran a high-level seminar for second year students at the School of International Public Affairs at Columbia on the development ...
The Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) is proud to present its new book entitled “The Ukrainian Crisis through the Prism of International Relations”.
The publication includes articles written by the President of the Russian International Affairs Council and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004) Igor Ivanov that first appeared ...
There is no stronger example of the schizophrenic nature of American foreign policy toward Russia than comparing statements written in the formal National Security Strategy (NSS) of President Obama with actual testimony given by the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. In 2010 the NSS asserted that the U.S. would endeavor to ‘build a stable, substantive, multidimensional relationship with Russia, based on mutual interests.’ What’s more, the NSS called Russia a 21st century...
... contemporary international journalism has increased significantly over the past year. Dumbing down the level of discourse is a dangerous phenomenon that influences public opinion and has a negative effect on the decision-making processes in the sphere of international relations
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Winner
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Igor Okunev
(Vice-Dean, School of Political Affairs and World Politics, MGIMO University, for Russia in Global Affairs) – “
Different Realities. Why the Crimean Crisis has exposed the Decline of ...
America seems reluctant in accepting the fairly benign fact that countries do not like to be dictated to and thus misses opportunities for creating new dialogues. This is especially prominent in explaining the poor relationship at the moment with Russia. There seems to be an element of purposeful animosity in the way Russia is viewed, analyzed, and engaged, especially at the so-called expert level and most prominently within the now Republican-controlled United States Congress. Perhaps one of the...
There are numerous think tanks, both in the United States and Russia, which are deeply concerned about the state of Russian-American relations. Places like the Moscow Carnegie Centre or the Brookings Institution in Washington DC are regular go-to places for the media when seeking expert opinion and analysis. However, these centers of independent knowledge production have had a decided slant in allocating blame for the poor bilateral relations to the Russian side, with the explanations ranging from...
The events in Paris are unfortunately all too familiar in the 21st century. I think in some corners it is still perhaps a bit shocking that events like the storming of Charlie Hebdo and the killing of civilians do not actually take place more often than they do. In my line of work, this is the foundational conundrum of secret success: intelligence communities around the world actually do a stellar job of ferreting out literally hundreds, if not thousands of ideas, intentions, and full-on strategic...
Renaissance of Geopolitics?
It is likely that, when describing the development of international relations in the second decade of the 21st century, future historians will refer to a kind of renaissance of geopolitics. While it may not be entirely accurate to suggest that we are currently witnessing the second coming of geopolitics,...
Western media members are currently basking in what to them seems to be a story of economic ‘come-uppance.’ Saudi Arabia announced that its 2015 budget will suffer from a significant economic shortage, resulting in a nearly $39 billion dollar deficit. Most in the West look at this fact curiously, mainly because it seems to be that Saudi Arabia is causing its own problem, by refusing to budge off of its own insistence at maintaining an oil production level of 30 million barrels per day...
... Russia’s Military Experts Alexander Vladimirov and a team of RIAC executive editors.
The Handbook structurally presents data on Russian analysts and organizations engaged in the studies of military and political issues and the role of power factors in international relations, as well as on periodicals regularly offering analytical materials on security, strategic stability, force building and defense potentials of states.
The concise and at the same time highly informative Handbook will definitely ...
