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The Changing Security Configuration and Balance of Power in the Baltic Region: Implications for Russia

Working Paper No.76 / 2023 Working Paper No.76 / 2023 The following working paper examines the current state of security in the Baltic region. It has become clear that there is no going back to the pre-Ukraine crisis balance of power structure. NATO’s expansion into Sweden and Finland can radically transform the political and security landscape in the Baltic region and destroy the established forms of cooperation these states have with Russia. This paper covers: risks and opportunities states face...

05.10.2023

RIAC and HSE Online Seminar «New Regional Dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean?»

... regional actors Speakers: Pavel Shlykov, Associate Professor, Institute of Asian and African Studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University; RIAC Expert Elena Alekseenkova, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Center for Italian Studies, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, NRU HSE, RIAC Expert Chiara Lovotti, PhD candidate, Faculty of History, University of Bologna; Associate Research Fellow, Middle East and ...

17.12.2020

RIAC at Doha Forum 2019

... the impact of new technologies on world politics, the future of global energy, the risks of global trade wars, etc.. Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, made presentations at two sessions of the Doha Forum: at the session “A Stronger Role for Europe in the International Arena: What Would It Take?” (organized jointly by Aspen Institutes of Italy and Romania) and at the session “Rules of Engagement for Non-Military Conflict” (organized by the RAND Corporation, USA). Elena Suponina, RIAC ...

17.12.2019

Ninth Meeting of the Younger Generation Leaders Network on Euro-Atlantic Security

... resolving regional crises; potential areas of interaction between Russia and the West. Young experts from Russia, EU, the USA, and Ukraine, as well as representatives of NGOs, think tanks, university and business community took part in the meeting. In 2014 European Leadership Network (ELN) for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) non-profit organization, and Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) formed a younger generation expert working group to ...

29.06.2019

Is This the End of Nuclear Arms Control?

... decision to pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty , the nuclear arms control architecture between the US and Russia now faces its most severe crisis since the 1980s, and risks collapsing altogether. Although the UK and other European states are not direct participants in US–Russia treaties, the end of arms control could have especially severe implications for European security. The immediate and understandable trigger for the US decision is that Russia has tested, and is ...

12.11.2018

Sleepwalking Toward Nuclear War

In Paris, 100 years after the guns across Europe fell silent, leaders can begin taking important steps to ensure a new and devastating war will not happen today This weekend marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, one of the world’s most horrific conflicts. One of the ...

10.11.2018

A European Response to US Withdrawal from the INF Treaty

... Deputy Prime Minister, Former Minister of Economic Affairs Bert Koenders, Former Foreign Minister Marietje Schaake, Member of the European Parliament Klaas de Vries, Former Minister for Interior Affairs and Kingdom Relations Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland, ... ... Minister and Ambassador to the UK Dr Alexey Arbatov, Former Deputy Chairman of the Duma Defence Committee; Head of the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations General Vladimir Dvorkin, Lead scientist at the ...

09.11.2018
 

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