The below is a Pugwash statement, prepared by Sergio Duarte (President of Pugwash), Paolo Cotta Ramusino (Secretary-General of Pugwash) and Steven E. Miller (Chair of the Pugwash Executive Council).A Treaty on Open Skies was initially proposed by President Eisenhower in order to allow unarmed aerial surveillance flights with the purpose of increasing…

_ Yuri Kofner, non-residential research fellow, Skolkovo Institute for Emerging Market Studies, editor-in-chief analytical media “Eurasian Studies”. Munich, 27 May 2020.Tensions over gas prices and other problemsThe incomplete results of the latest heads of state summit the Eurasian Economic Union, which took place on May 19, 2020, became another…

Sports diplomacy existed long before Joseph Nye coined the term “soft power”. It was supposed to peacefully “co-opt” political actors rather than threaten or coerce them—which is, historically, how “hard power” works. But facing the Covid-19 pandemic, in existential terms, soft power gets left at the starting gate because the pandemic…

Author: Rajib Neupane, Research Trainee at AIDIA.The diplomatic relations between Nepal and Russia was established on 20 July 1956. However, the economic and technical cooperation between them started since 1959. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) granted assistance while installing many projects in Nepal. For example, Panauti…

A little learning is a dang’rous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring. (Pope)Hot on the heels of an article by a Henry Foy, entitled ‘Russia’s death toll likely to be far above official tally’, published in Nikkei Inc.’s The Financial Times (once known for its balance and seriousness) on 13 May, comes another new Cold War…

Authors: Ralf Ostner (Global Review), Frithjof Finkbeiner (Member Club of Rome, Desert Tech, Plant for the Planet)Many thought that due to the Covid crisis ecology and the ecological movement was dead and the idea of an EU-Russian ecological cooperation. Greta is back and still alive despite Covid. However Fridays for Future and the ecological movement…

6 May 2020The new coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has already inflicted great damage on a number of nations and on the world at large, resulting not only in many tens of thousands of deaths but also in economic, financial and social crises. It also forced the international community to cancel or postpone a number of important meetings, including big…

The disclosure of documents, which had been hidden by the FBI, regarding their tactics in framing up President Trump's first National Security Advisor, General Michael Flynn, demonstrates a clear pattern of illegal activity by high-level operatives, who zealously engaged in what is rightfully described as a coup plot against the President. The…

The transformations created by the so-called Arab Spring and currently the Corona virus epidemic, have not been able to bring about fundamental changes in societal perceptions of politics, the state, self and the other, where Arab thought (to some extent) still adheres to the principle of linking the philosophy of authority to the religious faith…

Eurasia may not be defined in ethno-cultural terms and is rather a political notionEurasianness is even less suitable for the analysis of regional integration than Europeanness. It first appeared in the works of Nikolaj Trubetskoj (1890-1938) and received many supporters who used it in their deliberations about common destiny of the peoples who found…

In his State of the Union address on January 15, Russian President Vladimir Putin outlined his proposals for overhauling the Russian constitution. Western media has unanimously reported that Putin’s proposals present an opportunity for Putin to retain his grip on power, but the aim of this article is to look at how these changes might open up…