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Independence on paper or in practice? On the prospects of cooperation between Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso in security and social development

The possibility of Lapland becoming a central NATO stronghold in Northern Europe would be a new major chapter in the alliance's “Arctic pivot”.

The presence of colossal stockpiles of nuclear weapons in two or three great military powers reduces the likelihood of a general war in its traditional sense

It would be unrealistic to expect that the future world order will be free of conflict. The world will retain its diversity, with different potentials of countries and their competition

When the US demanded total self-sacrifice from the countries of the former Soviet Union, Georgia bucked the trend

On September 9, 2024, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Synergia Foundation (Bangalore, India) and the Grandview Institution (Beijing, China) organised an online seminar ‘Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in the New World Order. Scenarios of Evolution’

On September 5, 2024, the delegation of the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy (UAE) visited the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)

Nobody wanted to fight

The day in which Türkiye becomes a BRICS member state, is the day it would turn away from appeasing Western international dominance, opting instead for multipolarity and its new role in the evolving world order

The fate of the future world order still depends on the ability of the 'troika' to control rivalry and on the results of such rivalry

How the successes of the far right and far left will affect politics in the EU’s most powerful state

On September 4, 2024, an independent Indian journalist and writer, Shastri Ramachandaran, presented his new book “Beyond Binaries: The World of India and China (2008–2022)” at the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)