... vis-à-vis Moscow
is being suspiciously seen
by some American and European commentators because he thinks out of the box. Criticism has been on the rise since the publication of
his interview with
The Economist
in November 2019, where he considered NATO brain-dead. He later stood at the same remarks and
insisted on the need of the Alliance to better define its enemies
. The French President envisages a different European security architecture from the Cold War years and elaborates on a new partnership with Russia by gradually overcoming distrust. Among other things, he sees potential areas of cooperation,
for example, in space and cybersecurity
, and he remains ...
... the INF Treaty is understandable. On the one hand, the French government has no desire to open a new front of opposition with NATO, whose relations with France are complicated as it is and which has already fully aligned with the US on the INF Treaty. ... ... Even less would he wish to surrender the issue of the INF Treaty (with its direct and fundamental bearing on the foundations of European security) to Donald Trump, who has not shown himself to be particularly reliable or benevolent towards Europe.
The French ...
... Secretary-General of NATO for Public Diplomacy directly to the Presidential Palace in Croatia.
In short, NATO quite simply does not have any worthy institutional competitors on many specific security issues in Europe. This means that reducing the appeal of NATO for the countries in the “shared neighbourhood” will require attempts to strip the organization of its current monopoly on the European security agenda, which can be achieved by strengthening the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), developing regional cooperation mechanisms and creating inclusive pan-European regimes regulating individual dimensions of ...
On October 24, 2019, Dostoevsky library hosted a RIAC Urban Breakfast “Arms under Control: will Russia and NATO Agree? Expert Assessment." In the course of the breakfast OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions report «Reducing the Risks of Conventional Deterrence in Europe. Arms Control in the NATO-Russia Contact Zones» was presented. ...
Interview with one of the co-authors of the OSCE Report “Reducing the Risks of Conventional Deterrence in Europe”
On October 24, 2019, the Russian International Affairs Council held a breakfast lecture on the topic “
Arms Control: Will Russia and NATO Reach a Deal?
” timed to the release of the OSCE Report “
Reducing the Risks of Conventional Deterrence in Europe
”. In an interview following his speech, Colonel (GS) Wolfgang Richter, one of the co-authors, discussed the art of conflict de-escalation,...
Measures should be based on existing agreements rather than negotiating a new treaty
The return to an outright deterrence relationship between NATO and Russia involves the danger of an arms race and a number of military risks, particularly in the NATO-Russia contact zones. These risks can be contained by means of sub-regional arms control. Approaches of this kind should comprise sub-regional ...
... common horizon.
Ivan Timofeev:
A New Anarchy? Scenarios for World Order Dynamics
— What are Russia's main priorities regarding European Security? How do they differ, in your view, from the EU's main priorities? Which of those differences are insurmountable,... ... large-scale conventional European war scenario. This obsession at least partially explains why Russia is so concerned about the NATO enlargement and the US military infrastructure deployment in Central Europe. One can argue that the Russian strategic culture ...
... origins in international law, and to determine how they may be transcended.
In its analysis of the experts’ deliberations, the ELN found fundamentally different interpretations, on both sides, to critical questions relating to the evolution of the European security order; the expansion of NATO; past military interventions; the right to self-determination; and the right to succession.
The nature of the problem:
The dominant western media narrative on the crisis in Russia-West relations is that, through its annexation of Crimea and intervention ...
