Throughout March, SYP UK will hold a series of online workshops to explore opportunities for international co-operation, arms control and peace in 2021 and beyond.Russia and the West: Opportunities for co-operation?Wed 10th March // 2pm GMT (UK) // Register hereSpeakers include:

Marion Messner (BASIC, UK) – ‘Trust building between Russia and US:…

We are recruiting motivated young scholars and policy practitioners with diverse backgrounds and expertise, ranging from science and technology to political science and international law. Successful candidates will join existing Board Members in Summer 2021 to pursue the main objectives of the group and develop the range of activities and projects…

Multilateralism can happen without a hegemonic power (the USA) REUTERS/Mike Segar It has already done so for a long time. As I have described earlier: "Nobody waits for Biden" (or the USA). The World is everywhere moving fast around the USA - leaving an ever more bewildered USA behind. US President Biden doesn't get it. Biden still lives…

International troops plan to stay in Afghanistan beyond the May deadline envisaged by the insurgent Taliban's deal with the United States, four senior NATO officials said, a move that could escalate tensions with the Taliban demanding full withdrawal.Alejandro Licea / Reuters About 157,000 people have been killed in the Afghanistan war since 2001. More…

By Dr. Salam Al Rabadi: Researcher in International Relations.There is no scientific method that allows accurate predictions about the future of the global system, as all propositions that indicate and predict the decline or rise of world powers remain subject to debate and uncertainty. Consequently, if the crisis of the "Covid19" pandemic…

“Politik ist, wenn man Gottes Schritt durch die Weltgeschichte hört, dann zuspringt und versucht, einen Zipfel seines Mantels zu fassen”1 Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) Source: regnum.ru A very personal view: seeing Prussia without complexes – family roots and core identity Roots, earth and homeland – these are difficult topics for my…

There is an urgent need to reverse negative trends and revitalize the arms control and disarmament process. Some people speak about going back to the drawing board, “reinventing” arms control and making it more effective and sustainable. They may well have a point, especially in view of the major political, military and technological changes in the…

The longer the current state of affairs in the Middle East deteriorates, the bigger the likelihood that major terrorist incidents will happen in our domestic societiesREUTERS/Fawaz SalmanThe situation in the Middle East is changing. Every year, the quagmire that has been caused by revolutions, civil wars and external intervention only seems to thicken…

January 2021
Breaking a Deadlock to Denuclearization of the Korean PeninsulaNortheast Asia Nuclear Weapon Free Zone (NEA-NWFZ) as the end goal
Dr. Tatsujiro Suzuki[1], Professor, Nagasaki University, and a Council Member, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World AffairsSummaryDenuclearization of Korean Peninsula is one of the most important security…

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) enters into force today, 90 days after the deposit of the 50th instrument of ratification, in accordance with its Article 10.3. This is a significant milestone in the search for effective, innovative ways to achieve the elimination of nuclear weapons, a proposition enshrined in the first…

Sino-Russian cooperation Despite significant divergence between China and Russia in both regional and international arenas, the countries have striven to expand their cooperation in several directions namely in diplomatic, political and defense realms. China and Russia consider the US as a challenge to the national security of both Beijing and Moscow…

_ Yuri Kofner, junior economist, MIWI – Institute for Market Integration and Economic Policy. Munich, 23 January 2021.A special relationshipThe post-Soviet space is a prime example of the lived concept of the economic integration of different speeds and of a “Eurasia of concentric rings”. There is the CIS free trade area, then the Eurasian…