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Numerous visits of Western leaders to Moscow on the eve of the crisis are among the foreign policy failures, and the Russian side failed to persuade anything, with political and diplomatic compromise considered unattainable

In a wide-ranging interview, the Russian ambassador to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov, discussed his country’s military operation in Ukraine, plans to return to negotiations under another government in Kyiv, sending to court Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the effect of Western sanctions and more.

Interoperability across regional and global projects as a built-in, structural mechanism in the new international architecture may in turn redound to greater security and stability in international relations

Turkey’s political plans for Central Asia appear to be largely hyperbolic and not viable in the long run

The event was dedicated to the discussion of the Maghreb countries in the system of international relations

The latest developments on the Ukrainian case will undoubtedly have far-reaching ramifications—for the Russian-Ukrainian relations and, more broadly, for security in Europe and globally

Closer Sino-Russian alignment is mainly driven by a shared feeling of facing Western military and normative pressure, resulting in a growing identification of each other as desirable and comparatively trustworthy partners

On February 22, 2022, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, DC) and The Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership held the first meeting of the international Global Dialogue on strategic competition and the future world order

Approaches to cyberwarfare norm-formation involving SCCs are encouraged by both sides, but these may well derive from differing levels of governance not necessarily within the context of the U.S.-Russia relationship

The recommendations addressed most of the areas of common ground so far sketched in Russian, US and NATO exchanges during the present crisis

With the INF Treaty collapsed and Russian proposals to prevent another missile confrontation in Europe possibly rejected, the logical thing to do would be to deploy the revised “Pioneer” missile in response to the new “Pershings” and “Gryphons”

Isolated action is far from being enough for global initiatives to be translated into local solutions, which remains the challenge to be addressed by the humanitarian community, whose members need to be more pragmatic