... status as a nuclear superpower. In fact, the use of nuclear weapons has evolved into a political and moral taboo, even if military planners and researchers have been exploring and modelling various scenarios involving their use.
Ivan Timofeev:
Russia-West: The Radical Scenario and Its Alternatives
It is still commonplace to believe that using nuclear weapons is unacceptable and that the odds of a nuclear power facing an aggression are quite low. But is it?
This question is becoming increasingly urgent ...
... also the struggle for access to critical raw materials, such as rare earths, which are important for the defense industry, renewable energies and the high-tech sector, among others. Ukraine's geographical location makes the country very attractive to Western countries, as it enables them to become less dependent on China in the area of critical raw materials.
"Ukraine is an important supplier of titanium, lithium, beryllium, manganese, gallium, uranium, fluoride and nickel, among others. The ...
Europe is now returning to its position as the main source of danger for all of humanity. But it does not mean that we in Russia should fence ourselves off from our Western neighbours and not pay them any attention
Europe has always been a source of concern for the rest of the world, from the time when the Greek pirates unleashed their aggression on the ancient civilisation of the Nile Valley to the latest attempts ...
... Russia. A powerful incentive will arise to mobilise new resources in support of Ukraine and accelerate the militarisation of the West itself. Ukraine will return to the global information agenda. The way will open to new stages of escalation. For example,... ... retaliatory strike from Moscow. A radical scenario will bring to its limit all those weaknesses in the structure of European and international security that have been accumulating over a long period of time. In this case, the world order really risks collapsing ...
... return to peace. However, from a structural point of view, India does not have the heft to navigate the complex Eurasian security dynamics, which led to the conflict in Ukraine in the first place. Therefore, if to look beyond the push for peace, growing Western pressure on India for Modi’s controversial visit to Russia, a country that is openly at odds with the Western world, tacitly implied India’s support to Moscow’s geopolitical ambitions (for the West). Hence, Modi’s Moscow visit necessitated ...
... empathy and a carefully calibrated balance of interests
When the current dynamics of Russia-China relations is discussed, the conversation often boils down to the concept of a "senior-junior partnership." A popular view—especially in the West—is that with more cooperation between the two nations, Russia is gradually, but inevitably, turning into a junior partner to China. When it comes to all the privileges, rights and responsibilities within the partnership, the junior partner has ...
... exacerbated by the deepening in-house political and social crises? This is not an easy question to answer, but the author, coming from Russia’s academic community, has taken the liberty to present his views on the future of the US leadership.
Restoring the Western cohesion
Most of the ongoing discussions about the resurrection of
Pax Americana
are in one way or another related to the unfolding conflict between Russia and Ukraine. There are various views on whether and how exactly the United States contributed ...
... // Russian International Affairs Council, September 27, 2023. URL:
https://russiancouncil.ru/en/activity/workingpapers/a-new-western-cohesion-and-world-order/
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. The Concept of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation, 2023 // Russian Foreign Ministry,... ... United States, taking into account their status as major nuclear powers and special responsibility for strategic stability and international security in general”. See: The Concept of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation, 2023 // Russian Foreign ...
... and the politicisation of the economy and finance. The unresolved nature of these issues in relations between Russia and the West has become one of the predetermining factors of the current crisis. Discussions about a new security structure could include ... ... Huasheng, Andrey Kortunov:
Prepare for the Worst and Strive for the Best. Russia’s and China’s Perceptions of Developments in International Security
An important issue of the new structure will be its functional orientation. NATO, in the past, emerged ...
... funding Ukraine from the U.S. to European countries. The ministerial also discussed the issues of defense spending and decision-making, which have been complicated by the accession of Finland and Sweden, and NATO’s further enlargement, primarily in the Western Balkans.
Dmitry Danilov, Head of the Department of European Security at the RAS Institute of Europe and MGIMO University Professor, noted that NATO was currently at a crossroads, with little clarity on how to organize the anniversary summit in ...
