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Dmitriy Trenin: Eighty years after the end of the World War II, the main threat of an armed conflict once again emanates for us from Europe The United States will not leave NATO. The president cannot do this unilaterally, and the Senate would not allow it. Trump is frightening Europeans, but his real goals are to shift the bulk of the financial burden onto Europe and to reduce America's ...
The relevance of Peter the Great’s progressivism remains, although it is no longer confined to the West, which has lost its monopoly as the leader of modernization The crisis in relations between Russia and the West suggests that the “window to Europe” created by the Russian Emperor Peter the Great is losing its purpose. It is quickly being bricked up, and this work is clearly proceeding faster on the Western side. However, a closer look at his policies suggests that it is premature to talk ...
Having failed as an architectural idea, European security remains a practical problem for Russia Security issues in Europe are undergoing both real-world and conceptual changes. On a real-world level, the region is in the midst of a severe political crisis. Its epicentre is the Ukraine conflict,...
... neighbours to the west. There we witness trends whose development may alter not just our relations with the West, but also the ways in which we think about those relations. What appears to be America’s primary foreign policy objective when it comes to Europe is the establishment of a reliable basis for maintaining military-political presence there in the decades ahead. Quite intense pressure applied to European political elites is the main tool utilized by the United States as part of this largely ...
... Western countries, remains alarming, although the events taking place there now do not outwardly cause such heightened interest as, for example, the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO, writes Professor Konstantin Khudoley, Head of the Department of European Studies at the Faculty of International Relations at St. Petersburg State University. In recent years, when several development options arose in the international relations of the Baltic Sea region, a tendency towards the most confrontational ...
The European stance seems to be split between three objectives: cooperating with the US without sacrificing strategic independence, backing Israel without condoning escalation, and restricting Iran without isolating it After weeks of intense disagreements ...
... in Eurasia is interaction with external factors which cannot be completely excluded, even theoretically. This means that even while successfully developing interaction between Russia and Eurasian partners in the South and East, we cannot forget about Europe or the United States, whose capabilities remain quite significant. Moreover, practice shows that it is only possible to create a cooperation zone that is relatively closed to external influence by ensuring that the interests of its states are opposed ...
Europe is now returning to its position as the main source of danger for all of humanity. But it does not mean that we in Russia should fence ourselves off from our Western neighbours and not pay them any attention Europe has always been a source of ...
It will be significantly easier to the Western world to gradually accept that its resources are finite than it will be for those who currently find the dominance of the United States and Europe unsatisfactory to establish new models of collaboration, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Timofei Bordachev. One of the most significant challenges that the global community of nations is currently facing in relation to the dismantling of ...
This month, the whole world remembers the unprovoked attack which the United States and Western European countries launched against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia for international politics was that it was a collective attack, perpetrated by a large group of Western countries, against a sovereign state,...
