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Prepare for the Worst and Strive for the Best. Russia’s and China’s Perceptions of Developments in International Security

... features of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, like all wars it has caused enormous suffering on both sides, with hundreds of thousands of military personnel and civilians killed and wounded, cities and houses reduced to rubble, the accumulation of hundreds ... ... 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 ...

12.03.2024

Space development: Star Wars or Star Trek?

... future of technologies, you will have every reason to be concerned about what might happen someday in space around our planet. All of us depend on satellites more and more. Today, they are widely used by both public and private sectors, and every year thousands of satellites arrive in already crowded orbits. To blind even a few of them—for example, with high-precision laser beams—would mean inflicting immense strategic, economic, social or other damage upon any country, damage comparable to that of ...

28.02.2024

A Monsoon Instead of a Gentle Breeze: Creeping Nuclearization in the Asia-Pacific

... incomparably smaller nuclear arsenal. Notwithstanding the discovery of numerous silos in the PRC described further, Moscow and Washington’s stockpiles still surpass those of Beijing roughly tenfold, even though China is predicted to have about a thousand nuclear warheads by 2030. Moreover, preventing bilateral arms control arrangements from crumbling—let alone strengthening the corresponding regime—seems like a daunting task in the ever so convoluted security conundrum. The situation is further ...

26.02.2024

Escalation Signaling in Ukraine and Its Implications for the Strategic Russia-US Relationship

... aims against Ukraine, noting that the Kinzhal missile is ‘a consequential weapon … with the same warhead on it as … any other launched missile. It doesn’t make that much difference, except it’s almost impossible to stop it’. Similarly, USAF Commander Gen. Wolfers claimed that Russia’s aim was ‘to demonstrate the capability and attempt to put fear in the hearts of the enemy’. In other words, Russia appears to have used the Kinzhal case in an attempt to control escalation between ...

05.02.2024

Assisting Africa’s Security and Development Needs Does Not Have to Be a Football Match

Africa is big enough to accommodate everybody—its needs are incredibly huge and its prospects are truly breathtaking Just over a year ago, at the US-Africa leaders' summit in Washington in December 2022, President Joe Biden made a public commitment to pay a visit to the Cradle of Humankind. However, he is unlikely to keep his promise, at least not before the US presidential elections in November. Still, Africa already had a lot of the US' attention: a long chain of top-level US officials showed...

26.01.2024

A Dangerous Gamble: The Russia-American Nuclear Game in the Ukraine Crisis

As the world's two super-nuclear powers, the relations of Russia and the U.S. are inseparable from nuclear risk Since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Russia and the United States have been engaged in an almost open nuclear game, but in different forms and with different objectives. Both Russia and the United States are well aware of the presence of the nuclear weapons factor in this conflict. Russia's main objective is to deter the United States and NATO from directly intervening...

21.11.2023

Spokes versus Axes: Modalities of Regional Security in Northeast Asia

... and defense. As an alternative behavior, theorists suggest estrangement or even buckpassing (which literally means “a refusal to chip in for drinks at a party”). In this case, the state prefers not to interfere in the affairs of its allies and not ... ... actual occupation of part of their territories by the U.S. military. 1 . Buzan B., Waever O. Regions and Powers: the structure of International Security. Cambridge University Press. 2003. 564 p. 2 . Waltz K. Theory of International Politics (1979). Waveland ...

07.11.2023

From the Middle East to Ukraine. A Milestone

The cost of a conflict with Russia for the United States will be measured not only and not so much by support for Ukraine, but also by the enormous cost of containing the Russian-Chinese tandem The aggravation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is an indicator of the growing imbalance in the existing system of international relations. This imbalance is characterised by the emergence of new conflicts and resumption of old ones, with large-scale human casualties and risks of further escalation....

23.10.2023

The US Is Using Russia’s Playbook in Africa, but There’s a Catch

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s tour portrayed Washington’s official strategy as more benevolent than it actually is US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin embarked on a tour of Africa this week, marking the first such visit by a Pentagon chief since 2020, when Mark Esper visited Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. In contrast to that occasion, when no attention was paid to Sub-Saharan Africa, Austin’s trip was intended to reaffirm the Biden administration’s posture that the US is “all in for Africa...

02.10.2023

US — Japan — South Korea Military Cooperation Pushes More Rigid Bipolar Security Arrangement in Northeast Asia

The growing US-Japanese-South Korean military cooperation inevitably leads to stronger China-Russia-North Korea ties The Russian-North Korean negotiations this month have provoked a lot of hype, particularly in the West. It is assumed by the West that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's trip might indicate a profound change in Moscow's overall approach to the security problems on the Korean Peninsula. Allegedly, a new so-called "Moscow-Beijing-Pyongyang axis" that harbors unquestionable...

27.09.2023
 

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