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How to Reform the United Nations Security Council?

The Security Council is rightfully considered the most powerful and influential body of the United Nations. The authority granted by Chapter VII of the UN Charter allows it to pronounce universally binding decisions and authorize all types of conflict-preventing missions,...

05.11.2014

The Lackluster Peace Talks in Libya

... Kaddafi has hurled Libya into the chaos of a three-years-long struggle between liberal forces supported by the army and Islamist parties propped up by former rebels . Five successive governments have fruitlessly been trying to establish control over a country that is de facto split into three parts (Cyrenaica in the east, Tripolitania in the west and Fezzan in the south), and with most of the territory still held by various Islamist groups. The situation has been exacerbated by the parliamentary elections ...

27.10.2014

UN Climate Summit: Are Countries Ready To Go Green Together?

Inteview with Igor Makarov On September 23, 2014 New York hosted the UN Climate Summit, which was accompanied by massive demonstrations by environmentalists in the United States, Europe and Australia. Although the regulation of harmful carbon emissions and deforestation are central on the climate agenda, the establishment ...

08.10.2014

The ISIS Crisis and the faiblesse of global governance

An American and two Russians have landed safely in Kazakhstan after 5 ½ months in space… and to think there is no cooperation toward a more peaceful world between the United States and Russia. Meanwhile, private citizens of Qatar, and other friends of the United States, have been financing Hamas and ISIS. Now, as Washington prepares to launch a new campaign to destroy global terror networks an American website with ...

11.09.2014

Palestine-Israel Talks: Temporary Deadlock or Total Failure?

Russia and the United States in the Negotiation Process Once again Israelis and Palestinians are at the crossroads between negotiations and peace process crisis, between a lasting peace agreement and political stagnation. Establishment of the two states is still the ...

23.07.2014

RIAC and UNDP Cover Central Asia Problems

On June 20, 2014, RIAC and UNDP held a roundtable "Current Problems of Central Asia Development", with the UNDP represented by UN Resident Coordinators/UNDP Resident Representatives in Central Asia and Azerbaijan, their deputies, and officers of ...

24.06.2014

Who Sends Peacekeepers and How?

The Future of Peacekeeping The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers is celebrated on 29 May [1] . The day has a dual purpose – to commemorate UN peacekeepers who have died in the name of peace and pay tribute to all men and women dedicating high levels of professionalism, dedication ...

02.06.2014

RIAC and UN Representatives Meet on Syria

On May 20, 2014 RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev and Program Manager Lyudmila Filippova held consultations on Syria with UN Director of Middle East and West Asia Antonella Caruso and political expert Shuhrat Suleymanov. The expert commentary was provided by Alexander Shumilin, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts at RAS Institute for US and Canadian ...

22.05.2014

Predicting critical events, an institutional challenge.

“Close your eyes and you’re not sure if it’s an Israeli or a Saudi speaking.” That’s what Daniel Levy, Middle East director at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), told The New York Times in an article dated March 31st. The ECFR, which has called for a greater role for Al Qaeda in Algeria to “promote democracy,” is funded mainly by George Soros. The New York Times ...

22.05.2014

RIAC and UNDP Discuss Cooperation on Central Asia Development

On March 26, 2014 the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry for Economic Development held a roundtable " Trade and Human Development in Central Asian Countries: Russia's Forms and Tools for Expert-Level Assistance ...

28.03.2014
 

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