... lead to even greater regression in the international community?
Andrey Kortunov:
It would be wrong to argue that the end of the cold war did not generate any peace dividends. I am old enough to remember early 1990s, when many of us believed that the danger ... ... agreements were signed to consolidate the new realities—the Paris Charter, the Conventional Forces in Europe Agreement (CFE), the NATO-Russia Founding Act, and so on. There was a surge of trade, investments, tourism and civil society interaction between the East and the West. Unfortunately, it turned out that the two sides had very different perceptions about very fundamental dimensions of international ...
... community that the United States and NATO were planning to capture Sevastopol and turn it into a naval base is not taken serious by NATO member-states, and is rejected outright by the majority of the elite. The dramatic crisis of confidence between Russia and the West that has peaked with the Ukraine crisis has led to both sides testing each other’s defence capabilities, seemingly ... ... to coexist in a paradigm of deterrence, discussing whether the current state of affairs represents a new configuration of the Cold War and the chances of it turning “hot”.
As a result of these developments, the decisions adopted at the September ...
... observation at this point is that we are not seeing large descriptions in Russian media of NATO incursions into Russian airspace and waters. I mean we have an account in the report... ... exactly the benchmarks that we develop in our report that show the difference between the Cold War era and nowadays. You see from the analysis in our report we think some of... ... Report "
Dangerous Brinkmanship: Close
Military Encounters Between Russia and
the West in 2014
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I think the major danger is an unintended incident which triggers...
