However, will a world without NATO be better for Russia than a world with NATO?
Catherine the Great is credited with saying that the ... ... rounds of NATO enlargement into the chronically unstable and explosive region of the Western Balkans (Albania, Croatia and Montenegro) created more problems than significant... ... achieved by strengthening the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), developing regional cooperation mechanisms and creating inclusive pan-European...
... William Hill. RIAC Website Editor Anastasia Tolstukhina discussed with the author the evolution of relations between Russia and NATO, the reasons behind the crisis between East and West, Russia’s place in the world politics and other questions. William Hill is professor emeritus of national security strategy at ... ... (Washington DC); he retired from Foreign Service after serving in various European countries, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the OSCE.
You have visited Russia many times. What’s your impression of Russia today?
William Hill’s “No Place for Russia: ...
... either oligarchic or crony.
A number of nations have retained their ‘modernist’ nature, such as the US, which leads all Western-centric international institutions, but at the same time remains independent or has the final say in decision-making. Russia is another such nation, which had degraded into a premodernist state, but have returned since, more or less, to the fold ... ... Europe and on its periphery has cast doubt on the principle of non-interference and peaceful settlement of disputes. In 1999, the OSCE member states from NATO countries launched air strikes on another OSCE member state, Yugoslavia. NATO countries conducted a number of interventions ...
OSCE member countries — the most powerful military nations — ... ... undoubtedly be among the priorities on the agenda of the upcoming NATO summit in Brussels. The organization’s members justly consider ... ... fight against terrorism has always been an important area of NATO-Russia partnership. Moscow is one of the most active security providers ... ... in check. Why is that happening?
Ivan Timofeev:
Russia and the West: the New Normal
First, the antiterrorism efforts of Russia ...
... OSCE for some time, but in the end resolved not to give the body even more importance. There were concerns among Europeans that the OSCE might start competing with NATO to be the main security provider in Europe.
Kremlin.ru
Kadri Liik:
How to Talk with Russia
There was little appetite in Washington and in Brussels to invest heavily in any “OSCE-based system” and, for understandable reasons, the West made a clear choice in favour of a “NATO/EU-based system”.
It is important to clarify this fact because it puts the whole issue of “equality” in relations between the West and Russia into a different perspective. Kadri Liik argues that “Russia has been treated as ...
... Russia’s expectations, we would need to accept a profound overhaul of the principles of most post-Cold War institutions; not just NATO and the OSCE would need to change their principles, but so would the WTO, possibly the Bretton Woods system, and so forth.
Focus on differences and talk
In the absence of a workable policy with an acceptable price tag, what should Western dialogue with Russia look like? Counterintuitively, we should start the Russia-West conversations not with commonalities – as would be ...
