... and substantial material capabilities. It is the only great power that has dared to challenge the dominance of the collective West, and plays an important role in the balance of power between two major global poles, the United States and China. Finally,... ... the regulatory framework, including the principle of equal and indivisible security. An institutional platform for a Russia-NATO dialogue emerged in the form of the Russia-NATO Council. Another factor in normalising relations between Russia and the West ...
... a return to extreme-era dynamics cannot be dismissed
The Ukraine conflict may well pave the way for a larger scale Russia-NATO confrontation. While hard to fathom and with everything suggesting that the scenario remains quite unlikely, it relies on ... ... military planners and researchers have been exploring and modelling various scenarios involving their use.
Ivan Timofeev:
Russia-West: The Radical Scenario and Its Alternatives
It is still commonplace to believe that using nuclear weapons is unacceptable ...
... Russia’s academic community, has taken the liberty to present his views on the future of the US leadership.
Restoring the Western cohesion
Most of the ongoing discussions about the resurrection of
Pax Americana
are in one way or another related to ... ... significantly stronger than it was some four or five years ago, when French President Emmanuel Macron allowed himself to describe NATO as a brain-dead alliance.
After the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, NATO quite unexpectedly acquired two new ...
... September 27, 2023. URL:
https://russiancouncil.ru/en/activity/workingpapers/a-new-western-cohesion-and-world-order/
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. The Concept of the Foreign Policy of the Russian... ... status as major nuclear powers and special responsibility for strategic stability and international security in general”. See: The Concept of the Foreign Policy of the... ... Интерфакс, 20 июля 2022 г. URL:
https://www.interfax.ru/russia/852945
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. Nato und EU Vereinbaren “Neue Stufe” der Partnerschaft // Die Presse, January 10...
... finance. The unresolved nature of these issues in relations between Russia and the West has become one of the predetermining factors of the current crisis. Discussions... ... course, does not yet indicate the creation of a military-political alliance similar to NATO. Most likely, we will see a long process of maturation of the contours and parameters... ... Worst and Strive for the Best. Russia’s and China’s Perceptions of Developments in International Security
An important issue of the new structure will be its functional...
... April 3, 2024, the international multimedia press center of the Rossiya Segodnya media group hosted a roundtable discussion “NATO: 75 Years at the Forefront of Escalation,” marking the 75th anniversary of the alliance’s founding
On April 3, 2024,... ... decision-making, which have been complicated by the accession of Finland and Sweden, and NATO’s further enlargement, primarily in the Western Balkans.
Dmitry Danilov, Head of the Department of European Security at the RAS Institute of Europe and MGIMO University ...
... the danger of a nuclear war or even a conventional wat between great powers had been eliminated forever. Many important agreements were signed to consolidate the new realities—the Paris Charter, the Conventional Forces in Europe Agreement (CFE), the NATO-Russia Founding Act, and so on. There was a surge of trade, investments, tourism and civil society interaction between the East and the West. Unfortunately, it turned out that the two sides had very different perceptions about very fundamental dimensions of international security and global governance.
In the West, they assumed that the future international system should have at its core primarily Western institutions—like NATO and the European Union—that would gradually expand and absorb former socialist ...
... addressing this question, a particularly relevant one, given the current frightening disorder and madness in most of our so-called ‘western world’, I must stipulate that the future does not exist, except in our minds. This makes the question redundant, unless ... ... for perpetual war, with the danger of the obliteration of most of humanity. Those of us who remember have only to recall how NATO, instead of disbanding, ignored Russia’s concerns and attempts at serious dialogue, expanded, and then illegally bombed ...
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 ...
... war can hardly be thwarted, not to mention article that seek to explore a purported coup in Kiev, the crushing response of the West, or even the looming nuclear conflict of global dimensions.
We shall try to find an answer to a number of interwoven questions,... ... going on and what could happen to the Ukrainian issue in the near future?
Andrey Kortunov:
Is There a Way Out of the Russia-NATO Talks Impasse?
Starting off with Moscow’s plans and intentions. Anyone who is slightly familiar with the structure of power ...
