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RIAC at "Sixty Years of the Cuban Missile Crisis: Lessons for the 21st Century" International Conference

... developing strategic arms control mechanisms, and other issues. Several RIAC members spoke at the event, including Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States; Alexei Arbatov, Head of the Center for International Security at IMEMO RAS; Evgeny Buzhinsky, Chairman of PIR Center Board; Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General; Vladimir Orlov, PIR Center Director, MGIMO Professor; as well as the following experts: Elena Chernenko, Special correspondent ...

21.10.2022

Seven Differences from Cuban Missile Crisis

For both sides, the stakes in the current crisis are higher than they were 60 years ago Today, it’s come to be trendy to draw parallels between the current state of U.S.-Russian relations and the famous Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. All the more so, because we are on the cusp of the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Crisis: the decision taken by the John F. Kennedy administration to impose a blockade on Cuba was made at the White House in the evening of October 20, having triggered the acute phase...

17.10.2022

If the World Is One Family, Why Do We Seek to Destroy It?

Interview with Dr. Dalbir Singh The world is going through a very difficult, turbulent period. National Secretary All India Congress Committee, Co-Chairman of Eurasian peoples’ Assembly General Council Dr. Dalbir Singh shared his perspectives on some of the existential questions, including whether the era of globalization is over, how peace can be preserved on the planet and what tools should be employed for this purpose. Does history repeat itself? Is the current situation in world politics...

11.10.2022

Russia-Ukraine, India-Pakistan: Two Existential Conflicts in Eurasia

Both New Delhi and Moscow have to sort out problems with their archrivals in order to approach conflicts in their neighbourhoods with more confidence and to enhance the efficacy of multilateral security arrangements India and Russia are two great powers located in the South and the North of the vast Eurasian continent, and it is for a good reason that they both claim a proactive role in establishing an international order on the continent as well as globally. The two countries epitomise entire...

10.10.2022

Russia undertaking 'huge experiment' with mobilization

Russia has not done anything like mobilization in this century, and that using a nuclear weapon in Ukraine makes little sense for Vladimir Putin Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council Andrey Kortunov says Russia has not done anything like mobilization in this century, and that using a nuclear weapon in Ukraine "makes little sense" for Vladimir Putin. Watch his interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.

07.10.2022

Dis-United Nations and Conceptual Mazes of the New World Order

... institution relative to other international structures of regional ilk, which embraces all the major topics of the international agenda, such as socio-economic progress, national and regional development, rather than just the issues of war and peace or international security. That this picture was far from reality became increasingly clear as negative trends in international relations grew in momentum. In recent decades, which were marked by the complex dynamics of international relations as well as ...

03.10.2022

Regional Development Trends and Dynamics of Conflicts in the Middle East Discussed at Qatar Conference

On September 30 – October 1, 2022, Middle East Council on Global Affairs, Qatar, held an international conference in a hybrid format on the situation in the Middle East: reset, great power competition and regional (in)stability On September 30 – October 1, 2022, Middle East Council on Global Affairs , Qatar, held an international conference in a hybrid format on the situation in the Middle East: reset, great power competition and regional (in)stability. Experts from the region, from Europe, the...

02.10.2022

RIAC Experts at the “RCD Forum 2022: The World is Changing”

... 2022 included a series of workshops, as well as several panel discussions on key regional and global trends. In particular, there were discussions on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine military conflict on the global economy and international security. In addition, the participants discussed the problems of food security, global trends in the energy sector, as well as environmental challenges. A special attention was paid to instable countries of the Middle East and North Africa....

02.10.2022

A New Western Cohesion and World Order

Working paper № 69 / 2022 Working paper № 69 / 2022 The working paper explores the factors that predetermined the Western switch from divergence to convergence in the 2020s along with the key features of the commenced consolidation within the ranks of the Collective West. Is current Western unity incidental or strategic? Is it transient or long-standing? How much do the interests of the major power centers of the Collective West diverge? How likely is this unity to extend to subsequent engagement...

27.09.2022

Shanghai Institute for International Studies and the Belfer Center Tenth International Expert Forum

On September 23, 2022, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), in partnership with The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, held the tenth online international high-level expert round table, dedicated to the trends in the development of world politics in the context of acute recent crises On September 23, 2022, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), in partnership with The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard...

26.09.2022
 

Poll conducted

  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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