Interview with Michèle Griffin, Director of Policy Planning Unit in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General
Interview
In balancing the interests of 193 UN Member States with the principles of the UN Charter, the Secretary-General handles the ...
Interview with David McCrone
Interview
The referendum on Scottish independence, planned for autumn 2014, has attracted a great deal of media attention both in Europe and further afield. Many experts believe that if Scotland were to gain full independence,...
Dr. Rico Isaacs is an expert in Central Asian politics and a senior lecturer in International Studies at the Oxford Brookes University. His research concerns the political sociology of Central Asia in particular the interaction between formal and informal politics, institutions and practices and the discursive construction and interpretation of power and authority in the region. Dr Isaacs is the author of Party System Formation in Kazakhstan: Between Formal and Informal Politics (2011, Routledge)...
Interview with Andrew Bennett
Interview
Political scientists often apply qualitative methods, such as case studies, interviews, and analysis of documents and materials, in an attempt to solve real-life problems. But the world is a very complex system ...
Interview with Pan Dawei, Director of the Center for Russian Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Interview
Ongoing processes in the Asia-Pacific region are clearly gaining global significance, while experts indicate that we may be witnessing ...
Interview
Cooperation between the United States and Russia over strategic arms limitation remains subject to changes in the political environment. It also faces structural challenges, particularly those related to a reliable exchange of information on ...
Interview
Today, when we are witnessing the rise of interest towards the Arctic, the issue of successful cooperation between the Arctic states is becoming increasingly important. RIAC has asked
Scott Highleyman and David Balton
to comment on the ecological ...
Interview with General John J. Sheehan
Interview
The New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty), signed at the dawn of President Obama’s first term in 2010 was considered a turning point in US-Russia relations. Now, with the US President reelected ...
Interview
Obama has a pretty good understanding of the modern world. He sees the changes, and knows the world much better than his colleagues and opponents. But he is uncertain of how best to manage things. Therefore, his foreign policy is likely to be ...
Interview
Russian policy is a field in which the United States should rise from the tactical to the strategic level. The reset has yielded Washington some valuable but, at the same time, limited results. However, U.S. foreign-policy decision-makers usually ...