... Joint Report
RIAC and CSIS Joint Report
In September 2020, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Center for ... ... of importance to U.S.-Russia relations: Arms Control, the U.S.-China Rivalry, the Arctic, and the Eastern Mediterranean. What ... ... is an agreement that arms control still works.
Beijing’s refusal to participate in a trilateral U.S.-Russia-China dialogue ... ... in which Russia sides with China.
Russia’s Chairmanship of theArctic Council
The Arctic remains a positive outlier in a receding ...
Russia and Canada face the need to build a balanced and cautious policy about non-Arctic ... ... adopted for their first ever strategic documents on the issue. For example, in 2018, China was the first to adopt a
White Paper
on its policy in the Arctic. Given the increasing... ... developing relations with extra-regional states, and with the observer countries in the Arctic Council in particular.
The Interests of Extra-Regional Actors in the Arctic
There...
... President of Finland’s “breakthrough idea” of an “Arctic summit” did not materialize. Finland will continue to chair the Arctic Council until the spring of 2019, and such a summit would sound a powerful chord at the end of the country’s northern ... ... powers would step up their struggle for control over natural resources, and that the military confrontation between NATO and Russia would expand, did not come true either. The forecasts of China’s expansion in the Arctic under the slogan of developing the “Polar Silk Road” initiative, part of the larger “One ...
