This summer the world celebrates the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act. The jubilee session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly was held in Finland's capital in early July, but the festivities turned pretty sour since Finland banned the entry of several members of the Russian delegation and Moscow refused to attend amidst the Russia-West relationship having become very problematic due the ongoing Ukraine crisis and sanctions.
Here RIAC Program Manager Natalia Evtikhevich, PhD...
... nuclear arsenal.
The United States is not building up its nuclear arsenal, but is rather cutting it by almost two thirds, i.e. from 1,385 to 400-500 bombs including those stationed at European bases. Improved safety control over these weapons is good for international security, whereas on the whole, the program offers a good example of thrift displayed toward previous major allocations for developing for producing weapons that with minor upgrades can remain effective for many decades. The B61 was commissioned ...
... / by Ronald O’Pourke. September 30, 2013. Congressional Research Service Report RL33153. 119 p. p. 8
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. China Naval Modernization: Implications for US Navy Capabilities / by Ronald O’Pourke. September 30, 2013. Congressional Research Service Report RL33153....
Over the course of the last forty years, the OSCE’s “area of responsibility” remains a zone of protracted conflicts. Certainly, the amount of violence in the region is less acute in comparison to other hot beds across the globe; however, the number and nature of potential conflicts on its territory give reason enough for careful consideration and urgent action. Be it dormant hostilities in the Balkans or Transnistria, the smoldering stand-off in Nagorno Karabakh, or the frozen conflicts...
... Helsinki Accords were signed, the CSCE’s three “baskets,” or main spheres, were agreed upon: politico-military, economic-ecological and humanitarian dimensions
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. This comprehensive understanding went far beyond traditional notions of international security. Thus already at the time of its establishment, the OSCE was able to step into the future. It was its first breakthrough achievement.
The achievement of a balance between the two systems and the desire to maintain it was one of ...
The Helsinki Final Act of 1975 was a political breakthrough in Cold War Europe. Despite being hardline adversaries, the West and the Communist bloc managed to agree on common principles for the conduct of foreign and domestic policy. These principles included sovereign equality, refraining from the threat or use of force, and respect for human rights. The Helsinki Final Act helped European countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain to overcome their divide. After 1991, the CSCE/OSCE was the spearhead...
... transformation of the international system. New centers of power are rising, the impact of the information revolution on mankind’s activities is growing dramatically, and regional integration processes are intensifying. Most of the traditional international security threats are still present, while new challenges to the world community are on the horizon.
In an era of growing “turbulence”
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in world politics and amidst a global shift of influence from the West to the East, we ...
On June 23-25, the
Institute for National Security Studies
of the Tel Aviv University (Israel) held an annual international conference on arms control in the changing world where nymerous experts, analytics, diplomats and journalists from Israel, the U.S., Germany, India, Turkey and other countries participated.
Russia was represented by RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov who spoke with the report on "What has happened to the U.S.-Russian nuclear arms control regime?"
Washington and Beijing are Trying to Keep their Differences on Security in Check
One of the outcomes of the Chinese military delegation’s visit to the United States led by the Vice Chairman of the country’s Central Military Commission, General Fan Changlong, was the launch of a new cooperation mechanism between the ground forces of the two countries. While we shouldn’t read too much into what these agreements could mean – they are hardly ground-breaking – they do...
On June 11-12, 2015 RIAC President Igor Ivanov and Director General Andrey Kortunov spoke at the annual conference of the
European Council on Foreign Relations
held under the title "The Crisis in European Order".
The event was attended by over 100 ECFR members and 50 guests who discussed the plentiful challenges currently threatening the European Order, among them Ukraine crisis, cross-border migration, energy security, financial crisis in Greece, possible UK withdrawal from the European...
