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Prepare for the Worst and Strive for the Best. Russia’s and China’s Perceptions of Developments in International Security

... International Dialogue invited Andrey Kortunov, Academic Director of the Russian International Affairs Council, and Zhao Huasheng, Professor at Fudan University and expert with the Beijing Club for International Dialogue, to discuss the problems pertaining to international security, preventing a nuclear war, the rise of a new world order and prospects for the China-Russia relations. The world security situation: pessimistic or optimistic? Andrey Kortunov: Recent international developments give few reasons ...

12.03.2024

Regional Trends in the Middle East: Political and Economic Dynamics

Report No. 91 / 2024 Report No. 91 / 2024 Owing to contradictions between regional actors, socioeconomic problems, and political instability in some countries, the situation in the Middle East remains tense. Given such circumstances, political and economic trends in the Middle East require a degree of theoretical conceptualization. The authors of this report analyze the current political and economic trends in the region’s Arab countries and non-Arab states, including Iran, Turkey, and Israel....

29.02.2024

Space development: Star Wars or Star Trek?

Over the last 20 years, China and Russia promoted the idea of complete demilitarization of outer space During a recent regular press briefing in Washington, John Kirby, White House National Security Communications Advisor, expressed concerns about Russia allegedly working on new anti-satellite weapons. He did not specify the type of weapons, leading some journalists to suggest that the Biden administration was genuinely concerned about a futuristic nuclear missile being deployed in outer space...

28.02.2024

A Monsoon Instead of a Gentle Breeze: Creeping Nuclearization in the Asia-Pacific

Various approaches taken to address the nuclear question within the Asia-Pacific reemphasizes the region’s complex role in international affairs The East Asian Sea is affected by the East Asian Monsoonal System (EAMS), which carries moist air from the Indian and the Pacific Oceans to East Asia. The EAMS influences the climates of Japan, Korea, and much of coastal China, and thereby affects approximately one-third of the global population. Po, R.C. (2018). The Blue Frontier: Maritime Vision and...

26.02.2024

RIAC Hosted the Conference “Regional Dynamics in the Middle East in the Context of Security and Development Challenges”

The substantive basis of the conference was the RIAC report “Regional Trends in the Middle East: Political and Economic Dynamics”, authored by Russian experts on Middle Eastern issues On February 12, 2024, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a conference “Regional dynamics in the Middle East in the context of security and development challenges”. The goal of the meeting was to discuss key trends and current political processes in the Middle East. The substantive basis of the...

21.02.2024

Iran: The Middle East’s Joker

How Tehran Differs from Other Regional Players Last Sunday, February 11, Iran celebrated the 45 th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Celebratory rallies were held in over 1,400 towns and 35,000 villages across the country. In Tehran, Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi spoke to the participants of the festive processions. It is well known that Islam does not approve of card games. It is believed card games lead to gambling and create terrible addictions that distract people from spiritual...

16.02.2024

Escalation Signaling in Ukraine and Its Implications for the Strategic Russia-US Relationship

Escalation signaling is a tremendously difficult task that allows for some flexibility but also raises the risks of further escalation The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has demonstrated an unprecedented use of missile capabilities and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by both militaries. While Ukraine’s capabilities present a significant military-technical challenge for Russia, the fact that they are supplied by third parties, including the United States, has become a political issue aggravating...

05.02.2024

Assisting Africa’s Security and Development Needs Does Not Have to Be a Football Match

Africa is big enough to accommodate everybody—its needs are incredibly huge and its prospects are truly breathtaking Just over a year ago, at the US-Africa leaders' summit in Washington in December 2022, President Joe Biden made a public commitment to pay a visit to the Cradle of Humankind. However, he is unlikely to keep his promise, at least not before the US presidential elections in November. Still, Africa already had a lot of the US' attention: a long chain of top-level US officials showed...

26.01.2024

Egypt on the Eve of El-Sisi's New Presidential Term

The current economic dynamics are likely to continue in the foreseeable future since a solution to the fundamental problems of the Egyptian economy has not been found yet On December 10–12, 2023, presidential elections were held in the Arab Republic of Egypt (ARE). As a result of a referendum held in 2019, certain amendments were added to the constitution, including the partial elimination of presidential term limits, thus allowing incumbent President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to run again for the post...

15.01.2024

The International System between Crisis and Revolution

World politics is fast degrading into a zero-sum game “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” Antonio Gramsci’s famous quote from his Prison Notebooks, where he describes the turbulent era between the two world wars is quite suitable to portray the state of the international system during the recent few decades. Stating that the world has entered a period of revolutionary transformation...

29.12.2023
 

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