...
Abenomics
revitalization plan (which has so far demonstrated a positive effect), the direction of these dramatic military reforms will remain a secondary concern for most of his citizens.
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Dmitry Streltsov:
Russian-Japanese Relations: a Systemic Crisis
or a New Opportunity?
In conclusion, Prime Minister Abe has already has found multiple ways to escape from the structural restraints posed on Japanese military power. This has several important implications....
... Stiftung
and the U.S.
Nuclear Threat Initiative
.
The seminar was attended by experts, diplomats, members of parliament, government officials and the heads of NGOs from Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as by EU and NATO representatives. Speeches were given by the Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the Republic of Latvia (Edgars Rinkēvičs) and the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee ...
An open letter from Ivan Timofeev to his American counterpart Robert E. Berls Jr.
Last week the
Moscow Times
published an open letter by Robert Berls, senior adviser for Russia and Eurasia at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI). In his letter to the Russian colleagues, Mr.Berls expressed his concern over deteriorating relations between Russia and the West. RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev responded to his letter and ...
No one supports a Chinese challenge to American power in the region, not even Russia
Political pundits routinely identify the Asia-Pacific region as a potential flashpoint for a future war between the great powers. Yes, China is rising, Japan is rearming, and the United States has announced a "pivot" to Asia. But the ...
... weapons, the spread of terrorism, the threat of cyber-attacks and fundamental environmental problems.
NATO seeks to strengthen international security through cooperation. Greater efforts will be spent in this regard in terms of arms control, disarmament ... ... the word.
As we can see, there is no contradiction “on paper” with the foreign policy goals and objectives of the Russian Federation. On the contrary, our partners should be happy that they have such a responsible country for a neighbour, one ...
On March 10, 2015 Anton Mazur, head of the Russian Delegation to the Vienna Negotiations on Military Security and Arms Control, announced that Russia was “suspending its participation” in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE). This decision was hardly a sensation,...
... SIPRI Chairman Emeritus Rolf Ekeus.
The participants discussed ways to strengthen and reform the OSCE, integrated approach to European security and future OSCE PA role with the focus on Ukraine crisis and prospects for relationship between Europe and Russia.
Opinions have been voiced that time has come to change the key and regard Russia as part of Europe rather than plunge into confrontation, the sanctions being vestiges of the past and hardly effective as foreign policy tools since they damage both ...
... European region remained relatively stable and peaceful. The political leaders of countries in Northern Europe took some important initiatives at the beginning of the 1990s, aimed at ensuring that the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia did not have a destabilising influence on the situation in the region. They were directly involved in establishing consensus-based international cooperation forums with Russian participation on the perimeter of the northern European states’ ...
... relations, as the two countries’ combined account for almost one-third of the world's GDP.
Security and stability in Northeast Asia involves a balance between mutual deterrence of Japan-US military alliance and the individual military capabilities of Russia and China. Two factors could theoretically undermine this stability, namely changes in the military potential of any of the three components (Japanese-American, Chinese and Russian), and an exacerbation of the regional conflicts in which they may ...
Shuttle diplomacy exercised by European leaders gives us a phantom of a chance that we must not overlook
The first impression from the Munich conference is that relations between Russia and the West are beginning to resemble a game of chicken. It is as if two airplanes are rushing towards each other head-on, and both crews refuse to deviate from their planned route. The only way for one side to win is for his opponent to lose....
