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What problems does Turkey seek to solve by joining the group and why does BRICS need it? In early June 2024, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan made waves when he said that Ankara saw BRICS as a possible alternative to the European Union and was exploring opportunities ...
... European Union, Britain, Canada and other countries. Russia has become a key target of such sanctions over the past two years. However, they are actively used against individuals from Iran, North Korea, China, and even US allies and partners such as Turkey and the UAE, although to a much lesser extent compared to the real adversary countries. Maxim Kharkevich: Security for Greater Eurasia Trade and technological ties are being politicised. Sanctions against Russia are characterised by large-scale ...
... yoke.” Moscow is more concerned with maintaining its great power status, which means being relevant in Middle Eastern affairs and having its voice heard. Russian military presence in Syria is no exception, and Russia does not move to stop Israel or Turkey from attacking Syrian government forces. Russian objective in Syria is to counter the spread of terrorism and prevent Syria from becoming a failed state, not to defend Syria from external threats which cannot topple the government. Igor Subbotin: ...
... which increases the threat to existing members, or would rather make the club “exclusive” in the existing composition. Whichever choice is made, the binding nature of the alliance relationship goes without saying. Individual deviations, such as Turkey or Hungary, may occur, but they have not yet affected the general principle in any way and have not really threatened the overall uno voce. The Ukrainian conflict has only underlined the binding nature of relations within NATO. It would be an oversimplification ...
... self-proclaimed Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, while to the west, the real power on the ground is often held by various armed groups and militias. Ruslan Mamedov, Grigory Lukyanov: Playing Pick-Up-Sticks in Libya In 2020, thanks to the mediation of Russia and Turkey, a ceasefire was established in Libya, making it possible to stop large-scale armed clashes between the LNA and the GNU forces that had lasted since April 2019 and to start resetting of the political process in late 2020–early 2021. The Government ...
... specific features of internal social and political processes in the Sahel amid geopolitical and geostrategic competition of Western nations in the region. It was emphasized that as global rivalry intensifies and so-called non-Western actors such as China, Turkey and the UAE emerge in the region, the Sahel nations face new economic, political, peace and security challenges. The participants suggested that the African Union should get involved in developing norms to regulate global competition to combat ...
... organizations are highly specific in their objectives and internal structure, aiming to safeguard the special rights of member countries in their relations with other nations. This is why various smaller former Soviet countries are seeking membership, and Turkey remains a member of NATO. In such a community, even the smallest player receives benefits that are unattainable by any single power acting alone. The fundamental principle behind the success of such organizations is also related to this: they all ...
... institution is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which began as a forum for China, Russia, and the Central Asian states, but now includes also India, Pakistan, and Iran, with Belarus to be admitted soon. A number of other Eurasian countries, from Turkey to Thailand and from the Malpes to Mongolia, have voiced their intention to join either BRICS or SCO. To counter that trend among the members of what we increasingly call the World Majority, Washington has raised the profile of NATO in the Indo-Pacific; ...
... India and Pakistan, even if they are at loggerheads with each other. Belarus, far from the Asia-Pacific vicissitudes, is now seeking membership as well. The list of SCO dialogue partner nations is much broader as it includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Turkey as well as a number of other players in the Global South from among the Arab and Asian states. Today, almost all countries of the Persian Gulf are represented in the Organization as dialogue partners, putting their trust in a non-Western regional ...
... from their sheaths, the Middle East remains divided. Paradoxically, the “Arab street” has been less active and less influential in Cairo, Riyadh and Rabat than it has proved in Paris, London, Brussels or even Washington D.C. Bahrain, Jordan and Turkey have withdrawn their ambassadors from Israel, but most of the Arab parties to the Abraham Accords (the UAE, Morocco, Sudan) did not revise their positions on these agreements, nor did they downgrade their diplomatic relations with Israel. Street ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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