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A Dangerous Gamble: The Russia-American Nuclear Game in the Ukraine Crisis

As the world's two super-nuclear powers, the relations of Russia and the U.S. are inseparable from nuclear risk Since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Russia and the United ... ... aware of the presence of the nuclear weapons factor in this conflict. Russia's main objective is to deter the United States and NATO from directly intervening in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The U.S., on the other hand, tends to believe that Russia will ...

21.11.2023

A New Western Cohesion and World Order

Working paper № 69 / 2022 Working paper № 69 / 2022 The working paper explores the factors that predetermined the Western switch from divergence to convergence in the 2020s along with the key features of the commenced consolidation within the ranks of the Collective West. Is current Western unity incidental or strategic? Is it transient or long-standing? How much do the interests of the major power centers of the Collective West diverge? How likely is this unity to extend to subsequent engagement...

27.09.2022

Constructing Security: Why Agreement on the Zaporozhye NPP Is So Necessary?

... security guarantees were previously seen as an alternative to Ukraine’s accession to NATO, these are now perceived as a temporary measure only, to be in place until Kiev... ... hold referendums in Kherson and Zaporozhye on whether the two regions should join the Russian Federation remains on the agenda, even if somewhat postponed for the future... ... For sure, it would be even better if it didn’t come to that. Aleksey Arbatov: The Ukrainian Crisis and Strategic Stability Second, such a precedent would be of great...

19.09.2022

Andrey Kortunov Speaks at Riga Dialogue 2022

... a hybrid format in Riga. The meeting was organized by the Latvian Institute of International Affairs, in cooperation with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Nuclear Threat Initiative, European Leadership Network, and the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Russian International Affairs Council has been participating in Riga Dialogue summit since 2015. This conference addressed the issues of the future of relations between Russia and NATO, the fate of the OSCE and other pan-European institutions, EU anti-Russian sanctions, and possible scenarios for the end of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, spoke at the meeting.

18.09.2022

The Ukrainian Crisis and Strategic Stability

... conventional forces in Europe and on deep reduction of strategic arms, Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan, relations with NATO and China were radically improved - the Cold War ultimately ended and nuclear arms race was curtailed. Naturally, that did ... ... people who managed to liberate mankind form the ghost of a nuclear Apocalypse for the next three decades. First published in Russian in Polis. Political Studies , 4, 2022. Arbatov, A.G. (2022). The Ukrainian crisis and strategic stability . Polis. Political Studies, 4, 10–31. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17976/jpps/2022....

18.07.2022

Lessons of Ukraine and the Death of Leadership: Only History Exists

... stupidity’. Fear of Simplicity Andrey Kortunov: Restoration, Reformation, Revolution? Blueprints for the World Order after the Russia-Ukraine conflict In his history of the Peloponnesian Wars, Thucydides wrote that the simple way of considering matters,... ... myself that the addition of ten new members to the EU, including atavistically Russophobic Poland and the Baltic statelets, also NATO members, would lead to a lack of EU foreign policy cohesion, and to institutional instability. And so it has, but many of ...

14.06.2022
 

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  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
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