On Wednesday, June 28, 2017, Alexander Nikitin, Director of the Center for Euro-Atlantic Security at the Institute for International Research MGIMO and Head Research Associate of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, held a lecture and presented his report “International Intervention in Conflicts: UN, OSCE, EU, NATO, CSTO Peacekeeping Policies”. He was accompanied by Anatoly Isaenko, Veteran of UN peacekeeping forces, who presented his own articles and reflected on the development of international peacekeeping missions.
On Wednesday, June 28, 2017, Alexander Nikitin, Director of the Center for Euro-Atlantic Security at the Institute for International Research MGIMO and Head Research Associate of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, held a lecture and presented his report “International Intervention in Conflicts: UN, OSCE, EU, NATO, CSTO Peacekeeping Policies”. He was accompanied by Anatoly Isaenko, Veteran of UN peacekeeping forces, who presented his own articles and reflected on the development of international peacekeeping missions.
Alexander Nikitin began his presentation by explaining the scale of international intervention in conflict regions and reviewing traditional approaches to conflict intervention. He touched upon the operations of the United Nations and different regional organizations, including OSCE, EU, and NATO, both in the Post-Soviet Space and around the world.
Having considered the changing trends in intervention mechanisms, Alexander Nikitin drew attention to a greater role and larger scale participation of regional organizations in conflicts regions. International intervention has become a norm to which both the international bodies and international law slowly adapt. He claimed that despite a crisis in Russia-West relations, Russia needs to cooperate with the West and other regional organizations to resolve particular conflict situations.
Anatoly Isaenko reflected upon his past experience in UN peacekeeping forces and commented on the Russian policies and trends in regard to the international interventions. He also discussed the topics ranging from the future appointment of the Russian representative to the UN, to the variety of international interventions over the past decades.
After their presentations, A. Nikitin and A. Isaenko answered the questions of the participants, who particularly expressed interest in the scope of peacekeeping as an instrument of global conflict management, the prospect of CSTO as a peacekeeping body, and the ways in which terrorism challenges existing mechanisms of international intervention.
