... Missile Treaty (ABM) and Russia’s withdrawal from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), certain concerns about compliance with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), and finally with NATO moving eastwards and the West’s support of regime change in the post-Soviet space, European security has degraded significantly since 1991. According to him, new inclusive agreements should be discussed, in part because not all of the new armaments are covered by the arms-control regimes.
Several German participants claimed that besides ...
... continues to show its influence on critical international issues, with Syria being just the most recent example. After over two years of talking about the threat Russia poses and how the West can mitigate it, it is worthwhile to remind ourselves why the West, and in particular Europe, needs Russia.
Four key issues stand out:
First, in terms of international peace and security, Russia holds a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. The veto this provides has already been used to block Western action in a number of situations,...
... is the decade-long and, unfortunately, largely futile endeavour on the part of Russia and the European Union to come to an agreement on energy.
We have to acknowledge the fact that the political, economic and even intellectual elites in Eastern and Western Europe were not willing to build a common future together. They did not demonstrate the strategic vision or the political will to carry out such a large-scale project. If Europe and Russia really valued these projects, do you honestly believe that they ...
... International Affairs, Reinhard Krumm of
Friedrich Ebert Foundation
, and Lukasz Kulesa of European Leadership Network.
The discussants came to a conclusion that the Ukraine situation has generated a massive crisis of confidence between Russia and the West, unseen in scale since the Cold War. As a result, Europe is divided into two camps eager to erect varied barriers to fence off from each other.
However, it seems erroneous to insist that the Russia-West freeze has grown directly out of the Ukraine crisis because the two sides had been definitely working ...
... the context of Sam Nunn's Nuclear Threat Initiative. There is therefore no lack of important ideas and proposals how to move forward in the direction of " mutual security" in the Euro-Atlantic space.
There is, however, deep concern in the West that President Putin's decision to unilaterally occupy and annex Crimea might not have been stopped even by a more perfect set of institutions and rules governing European security. The problem is that a colossal loss of trust has occurred, and that is difficult to repair.
LESSON FOUR: Universal understanding of international law must be restored
IVANOV: Fourth, throughout the Ukrainian crisis, and especially in ...
