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The Baltic Scenarios The Baltic of today is a most intricate area for Russia-NATO interaction. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, all of them members of the alliance, serve as its frontier zone in direct contact with its Eastern neighbour. Even before the Ukrainian crisis, these countries had been sceptical about security ...
... “talk sense” into Trump with regard to Euro-Atlantic security have caused considerable surprise among outside observers. Among them, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s attempt to explain to the US president-elect the importance of NATO, or the German defense minister’s remarks that NATO cannot be approached as a business. Do these seasoned officials really believe that the personal factor has such huge import for the future of Euro-Atlantic security? It appears that their ...
... an undeclared tender for a new contract with the Trump administration For the EU, Donald Trump’s ascension to power poses a challenge, although European leaders are not openly talking about it. The EU is seriously concerned not so much about NATO as a forum for a daily political dialogue with the United States as about the future substance of the north-Atlantic alliance’s policy. Trump has warned the EU that “business as usual” is unacceptable. Could a new “Trump Doctrine” ...
On November 14, the Federal Academy for Security Policy and the German Atlantic Association, co-hosted an international conference «A New NATO for New Challenges?» in Berlin. The participants of the conference — high-ranking politicians, military officials, diplomats, experts, and journalists from the Alliance member-states discussed the current and future security and stability ...
On November 4, 2016 Center for European Policy Analysis, CEPA, hosted a « Warsaw Summit 2016 – What’s Next for NATO? » conference in Warsaw. The following issues farmed the agenda of the conference: NATO on the Eastern Flank, the development and the future of the Alliance, Russia-NATO relations. Natalia Evtikhevich , Programme Manager, Russian International ...
Due to the Ukraine crisis, relations between Russia and NATO are definitely at a nadir for the entire period since the end of the Cold War. Their deterioration has been abrupt, snowballing and irreversible. As a matter of fact, Brussels regards Moscow as its top security challenge and at a minimum has made ...
... and higher as having “a limited capability” to combat IBMs [9] . Russia’s Fears So what is the Russian side afraid of? Russia’s concerns are most fully formulated in the BMD-related materials of the 2012 Moscow Conference on International Security . They boil down to the following points: The third and now cancelled fourth phase of the EPAA threatens Russian IBMs and SLBMs (submarine-launched ballistic missile) in various flight trajectories. Improvement of the SM-3 family ...
The results of NATO summit in Warsaw seen from a Western perspective – by Lukasz Kulesa , Research Director at the European Leadership Network. Was Warsaw NATO summit substantially different from any other NATO summits that had been held before? I think NATO ...
The NATO Summit that took place in Warsaw on July 8–9, 2016, twenty-five years after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, was never going to bring about any kind of political or diplomatic intrigue: NATO is returning to its roots, that is, strengthening ...
On July 7-9, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and RIAC member Dmitry Trenin, Director of Carnegie Moscow Center, took part in the international Experts' Forum held in Warsaw on the margins of the NATO summit and made their reports to the prominent audience. Sponsored by the Polish Institute of International Affairs and the GLOBSEC, the CEE largest security forum, with assistance of the Center for Strategic & International Studies, the German Marshall ...
| 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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