A Wide-Ranging Interview with Ian Bond, Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform
The RIAC editorial team recently sat down with
Ian Bond
, Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform. Bond is an expert in Russia and the former Soviet Union, European foreign policy, as well as Europe/Asia relations and US foreign policy. In this interview, RIAC gets Bond’s take on current political developments in and around the EU and what such developments mean for the future...
The Africa of today and especially the Africa of tomorrow will be too important for the world at large to approach it only as an extension of the ongoing Russia–UK confrontation
Today neither Russia nor the United Kingdom can claim a leadership role in Africa. London reached the peak of its influence here between World War I and World War II, when the British Empire had a larger part of the continent under its direct control. Moscow’s heyday in Africa ...
Only the continuation of nuclear arms control can create the political and military conditions for eventual limitations of innovative weapons systems and technologies, as well as for a carefully thought through and phased shift to a multilateral format of nuclear disarmament.
Only the continuation of nuclear arms control can create the political and military conditions for eventual limitations of innovative weapons systems and technologies, as well as for a carefully thought through and phased...
On October 14, 2019, in Arkhangelsk, Northern (Arctic) Federal University (NArFU) hosted a seminar on “Maritime Security in the Arctic: A View from Russia and Britain” as part of a joint project of Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Royal United Services Institute, RUSI “Russian-British Security Dialogue”
On October 14, 2019, in Arkhangelsk, Northern (Arctic) Federal University (NArFU) hosted a seminar on “Maritime Security in the Arctic: A View from Russia and Britain” as part...
... attract investors in conditions when it ceases to be an integrated part of the EU? How will the UK build economic relations with third countries once it leaves the free trade area?
Brexit will definitely touch upon the issues of the foreign policy of the United Kingdom, that over the years of the EU’s existence has become accustomed to EU’s assistance in achieving its foreign policy goals. Great Britain is now facing several challenges: How will relations between Northern Ireland and the Republic ...
The EU/Germany are now on the side of democracy and social justice, and the Anglo-Americans throw themselves and all the rest into the dark Hobbesian world of the period between two wars. How should Russia position herself in this context?
Power is always a sophisticated and ambiguous exercise in its own disappearance.
Les Strategies Fatales, Jean Baudrillard
For a number of years already in the West, and in Europe in particular, they talk of Weimar or Weimar syndrome alluding to the rise of the...
RIAC started the fourth cycle of the bilateral Russia-UK security project. RIAC partner in the project is the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). As part of the fourth cycle, four seminars will be held focusing on topical issues for Russia and the United Kingdom.
RIAC started the fourth cycle of the bilateral Russia-UK security project. RIAC partner in the project is the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). As part of the fourth cycle, four seminars will be held focusing on topical issues ...
On July 16, 2019, Laurie Bristow, British Ambassador to Russia, and Sarah Docherty, Political Counselor, visited Russian International Affairs Council.
On July 16, 2019, Laurie Bristow, British Ambassador to Russia, and Sarah Docherty, Political Counselor, visited Russian International Affairs Council.
The discussion with British diplomats focused on the current state and prospects for the development of relations between Russia and the UK, current problems of European security in the context of...
Without a clear explanation of the reasons for the detention of the vessel by the EU, Tehran’s claims remain natural
The seizure of an Iranian tanker by the authorities of Gibraltar has aggravated Iranian-British relations and could lead to further escalation. The oil transported by the Iranians was supposedly intended for the Syrian government. Tehran has already threatened to respond by detaining British ships. Meanwhile, the authorities of Gibraltar have extended the detention of the tanker...
On May 7, 2019, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, RIAC Member; Dmitri Trenin, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, RIAC Member; and Yevgeny Gontmakher, RIAC Expert, Member of the Committee of Civic Initiatives; had a meeting with Philip Barton, Director General, Consular and Security at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, at the residence of the British Ambassador to Russia.
On May 7, 2019, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, RIAC Member; Dmitri Trenin, Director of the Carnegie Moscow...
