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On September 18, 2018, RIAC held a closed round table «Towards MED 2018 — Syria, Libya and Yemen: the MENA Crises' Outcome» in cooperation with the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), and with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy. On September 18, 2018, ...
... Algeria, Tunisia and Jordan following the events of 2011, have had a positive effect on the development of these countries, especially against the backdrop of the misfortune that has befallen the region as a whole. Even the most problematic countries – Syria, and even Libya and Yemen – have not experienced a complete of statehood. What is more, modern mechanisms (elections, multi-party political systems, etc.) are becoming increasingly important for regulating political life in the powder keg that is Iraq, and also ...
... tranquil. The country is important for Russia because it remains a major partner in military-technical cooperation and is independent internationally as far as the acute crisis in the Arab world is concerned, primarily in view of the disasters in Yemen, Libya and Syria. Generally speaking, Algiers is striving to preserve the so far surviving states of the Greater Middle East in the existing borders and to stabilize the environment, since its deterioration will threaten Algeria, which is something Russia is also ...
... for instance, neighboring Turkey or even Iraq. When Russian officials argue that their prime concern is the future of the Syrian statehood, not the future of Bashar Assad personally, they are not necessarily trying to deceive the West. To get another Libya in Syria, much closer to the South Caucasus, Central Asia and Russia proper is not an attractive option for decision makers in the Kremlin. Bashar Assad and his regime, in this sense, are nothing but instruments to avoid chaos and anarchy in Syria. Are these ...
... representative government. Certainly the United States and its western allies hoped that by toppling Saddam and Gaddafi they would bring peace and prosperity to these countries. If only the "right" people had come to power after the wars in Iraq and Libya these hopes might have been fulfilled. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev Julien Nocetti: Syria: Moscow’s Risky Bet Unfortunately, the "right" people did not come to power. The reasons are hotly debated and no one can ever know what might have been. What we do know is that hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives,...
... leaders were not taken into account. I recall that in the recent past, Moscow canceled the delivery of analogous weapon systems to Syria because of Israeli objections, as Putin mentioned in his TV appearance. No less surprising was Moscow’s decision ... ... of the contract with Iran for the S-300 as a way to sweeten the pill. Also unusual was the Kremlin’s activity in the Libyan context, which many already thought was a lost battle for Moscow. On April 14-15, and for the second time this year, Libyan ...
In light of the recent developments in Syria and the apparently imminent US military intervention, the blog will take a short break from its relatively academic style and its thematic focus in order to brainstorm and share some thoughts on the broader picture of what is happening in the geopolitical ...
... effective collective actions. Also, at this point there is a strong possibility that military intervention can only make the situation in Syria worse, and can end up bringing more harm than good. The prospects for a successful military intervention in Syria are much less promising than they were in Libya. According to the estimates of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, in 2009 Syria’s military force was four times larger than Libya’s and it was much better equipped. Moreover, Syrian opposition is not unified, like it ...
... of some nations, including China and Russia. This is partly responsible for the failure on the part of the Security Council to take any decisive actions on Syria – Russia now suspects Western nations of pushing their own geopolitical agendas in Syria. Such excess of UN mandate as in Libya might have jeopardized the concept of the responsibility to protect and pushed more countries away from arriving at a solid agreement on the practical implementations of military interventions. Additionally, having a clear mandate helps to manage ...
... United Nations during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda (S/1999/1257).16 December 1999. [3] U.N. Security Council. 6498 th meeting. Resolution 1973 (S/RES/1973). 17 March 2011. [4] U.N. Refugee Agency. Syria Regional Refugee Response. http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php (Accessed 22 October 2012). [5] Human Rights Watch. NATO: Investigate Civilian Deaths in Libya. 14 May 2012. http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/05/14/nato-investigate-civilian-deaths-libya (Accessed 22 October 2012). [6] Seybolt, Taylor B. 2007 “Controversies about humanitarian military intervention”. In Humanitarian Military Intervention: ...
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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