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Towards Brave New Post-Unipolar Order While the impact of the terrorist attacks and the following military mobilization of the U.S. leading to invasion of Afghanistan influenced the geopolitical debate in the post-9/11 period, the country’s early victories provided solid ground to the general belief that global order was best described by a stable U.S.-led unipolarity. Unipolar hubris sustained Back ...
On August 20, 2021, the International Crisis Group held an expert meeting on the latest developments in Afghanistan and the possible future of Afghan statehood On August 20, 2021, the International Crisis Group held an expert meeting on the latest developments in Afghanistan and the possible future of Afghan statehood. The discussion focused on the risk ...
... RIAC Director General; Vitaly Naumkin, RIAC member, Academic Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; and a group of foreign ambassadors and senior diplomats, to discuss issues related to the situation in and around Afghanistan. The meeting was chaired by Premjith Sadasivan, Ambassador of the Republic of Singapore to Russia.
China now seems the most likely actor to take a position in the post-withdrawal Afghanistan, while it remains to be seen whether Beijing wishes to engage in a conflict that the USSR and NATO had difficulty in controlling before it Afghanistan has been a priority area for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since the 1950s as ...
The growing instability in Afghanistan provides ISIS with an opportunity to regain a territorial base it had lost in the Middle East The article was originally published in Russian on August, 10—before the hasty U.S. military withdrawal and the subsequent takeover of the country ...
On July 30, 2021, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) co-hosted a webinar titled “Situation in Central Asia and Afghanistan: Russia’s and China’s approaches” On July 30, 2021, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) co-hosted a webinar titled “Situation in Central Asia and Afghanistan: Russia’s ...
The NATO withdrawal creates significant hurdles for regional stability and a power vacuum in Central Asia. There are several players, both internal and external, who are seeking to fill the void. By September 11, 2021, NATO’s 20-year operation in Afghanistan will come to a close . That date marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on U.S. soil that prompted the invasion of the Central Asian state to eradicate the Taliban and the Al-Qaeda extremist group which used the country as a base ...
... both internal and external motives. As such, the resurgence of terrorism and religious extremism—Islamic and Buddhist—in mainland China has prompted Beijing to increase its upstream presence with military troops stationed in the Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan (officially to combat narcotics trafficking) while implementing a policy of re-educating Uyghur Muslim dissidents in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China. Beijing’s approach has been severely criticized in the United ...
The time has come for SCO member states to bring this body out to the light and to rise up to a new, post-US Afghan challenge The US is withdrawing from Afghanistan. Twenty years of the US-led foreign intervention has brought neither prosperity, nor stability, to the country. With hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the seemingly endless military operations and with thousands of Americans killed,...
On June 10, 2021, Said T. Jawad, Ambassador of Afghanistan to Russia, and Navid Fayz, Trade and Economic Counselor at the Afghan Embassy in Moscow, visited RIAC On June 10, 2021, Said T. Jawad, Ambassador of Afghanistan to Russia, and Navid Fayz, Trade and Economic Counselor at the Afghan Embassy ...
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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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