On December 7, in Berlin, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in cooperation with German Association for East European Studies (DGO) held an extended meeting of their workgroup on Russia focusing on the following topic: “Is Russia a Global Player?”
On December 7, in Berlin, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (
SWP
) in cooperation with German Association for East European Studies (
DGO
) held an extended ...
On October 31, Carnegie Moscow Center hosted a public discussion of directions in Russia’s foreign policy following the upcoming presidential elections in March 2018 and its impact on the international order.
On October 31, Carnegie Moscow Center hosted a public discussion of directions in Russia’s foreign policy following the ...
RIAC and CSR Report
5 years ago, in 2012,
Postulates on Russia's Foreign Policy (2012-2018)
marked the beginning of RIAC’s project work. This report has become RIAC’s trademark for several years, its amendments
being used
in the updated
Concept of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation
.
The world ...
Amid widespread and increasing alarm in Western strategic and foreign policy circles following Russia’s capture of Crimea, support for rebels in Ukraine, and military intervention in Syria, this study provides a timely and sophisticated analysis of the nature and intentions of post-Soviet government under President Vladimir Putin. Based on both ...
On May 8, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov gave a lecture "Next Political Cycle in Russia: Problems of Socioeconomic Transformation and Their Influence on Foreign Policy" at Stockholm School of Economics
On May 8, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov gave a lecture "Next Political Cycle in Russia: Problems of Socioeconomic ...
Russia dearly wants good relations with Europe and does not want the EU to collapse. Some members of the European Union regard Russia as an enemy, most notably, Poland the the Baltic states. Others don’t regard Russia as an enemy. Attitudes towards ...
... own counterterrorist agenda into the ‘Global War on Terror’ story could bring rewards in areas as strategically important as NATO expansion simply seemed far-fetched.
REUTERS/Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA Novosti
Michael Kofman:
Six Key Trends in Russian Foreign Policy,
as Seen by the West
Just as Russia’s past attempts to describe its Chechnya campaign as a fight in defense of the civilized world never really jived with a US audience, Russia’s IS-Nazism analogy is unlikely to make the desired impact today. Putin was much criticised ...
... its favor, with Syria being the latest example.
#2: Zero-sum game
Timofeev identifies Russia's approach to its periphery as now a zero-sum game. However, this was already the case, precisely why Russia reacted with force in Ukraine. The notion that Russia has privileged or special interests in its periphery is a historical vector of Russian foreign policy. The question is, what does this mean in practical terms today?
If the line in the sand was around Ukraine, it is now across it. Both sides will settle into the mid- to long term game for Ukraine's future, where they have equal ...
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/d%C3%A9tente-plus-how-should-west-deal-russia
“Leslie Gelb speaks for much of the US foreign policy establishment, writes Walter Laquer, “when he says that ... ‘It is totally unrealistic . . . to think that the West can gain desired Russian restraint and cooperation without ...
Comment on Brian Whitmore's RFE/RL podcast, “The Daily Vertical: Return Of The Russian World> http://www.rferl.org/content/daily-vertical-return-of-russian-world/27340254.html
Not much understanding of Russkiy Mir or its role in Russian foreign policy in this podcast.
Russkiy Mir is often represented as some new, strange, perhaps threatening concept cooked up in the Russian Foreign Ministry as part of a new Russian imperial project. Not so! Russkiy Mir existed long before even ...
