Reducing Risks and Cutting Costs: The Art of Confrontation Management

... between Moscow and Brussels is absent here too. Both sides could demonstrate more flexibility and more imagination without losing face or sending the wrong signals to each other. Fifth, there are clear opportunities in soft security matters, especially in environmental security. Traditionally, Russia has had difficult relations with the European environmentalists. The political program of the European Greens included environmental protection and combating climate change, emphasized human rights — it ...