On March 12, Moscow hosted international high-level expert workshop
"Post-2015 Development Agenda: toward a Renewed Partnership for Development
" sponsored by the World Bank, United Nations Development Program and Russia's G8 Sherpa Office and attended by top officials of international organizations, ministries and agencies, Russian and foreign experts, civil society leaders and businesspersons.
The participants focused on ...
On February 27, 2014 RIAC President Igor Ivanov addressed the international conference "
Wars in the 21st Century (2000-2014)
" organized by UNESCO and UN University in Paris.
Dr. Ivanov focused on analyzing the causes, consequences and lessons from the American-led coalition's intervention in Iraq in 2003 and general issues of strengthening global and regional security in the current global ...
A groundswell of popular articles and academic monographs are appearing that discuss nuclear guided missile warfare, modernizing delivery platforms, warheads and sophisticated guidance systems. On the power curve one sees a major realignment of diplomatic ...
Climate change has risen to the top of the international agenda and is a regular item under consideration at major international arenas including the UN, G8, and G20. Yet, available international instruments like the Kyoto Protocol have proved to be ineffective in substantially reducing global emissions and on-going negotiations on a new ...
Will BRICS Make the World Safer?
In its infancy, BRICS was preoccupied with economic issues, but today the group is also eager to handle global political problems including maintaining global security without the use of force.
The BRICS countries support the preservation of the central role for the United Nations and its Security Council in safeguarding peace on the basis of the UN Charter and universally recognized norms of international law. Their peacemaking activities range from nonproliferation ...
... of soft power, public diplomacy, the internet and social media. Henry Kissinger was still at Harvard. Robert MacNamara was managing the biggest failure in the history of the Ford Motor Company, the ill-fated Edsel automobile; the highly publicized wunderkind who computerized the Pentagon and the Vietnam War wasn’t made president of Ford until two months before the Kennedy transition team chose him to be U.S. Secretary of Defense. An Outside-The-Box Gamble That Paid Off Overcoming objections ...
International NGOs yesterday, today and tomorrow
A significant number of non-governmental actors can justifiably be regarded as an integral part of modern diplomacy, if by diplomacy we mean the communication system available to the international community. We have reason to claim that international NGOs, as important social institutions for the establishment and development of extensive contacts within multilateral diplomacy, help fill current gaps ...
... soldiers, child laborers and child prostitutes were a fact of life. Before the emergence of sharia law, before the Christian era, before the appearance of monotheistic Judaism and before the birth of the Orthodox Church. In spite of efforts by Islamic fundamentalists, one can find evidence of this fact at the Library of Alexandria. The library was saved from recent attacks by radical Islamasts only because employees and friends created a human chain to block the attackers from entering and looting the ...
RIAC President Igor Ivanov and Director of Federal Migration Service Konstantin Romodanovsky addressed the High-Level Dialog on International Migration and Development held in the UN Headquarters in New York on October, 3-4 in accordance with the UN General Assembly resolution 63/225 adopted on December 19, 2008.
The event aims to set practical steps for strengthening international cooperation at all levels in order to minimize ...
... Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, who was part of the negotiations along with Kerry and Lavrov ostensibly representing what Kerry has referred to as “the Assad regime” caved in to a Qatar sponsored resolution that designates the Syrian National Council (SNC) as the official representative of Syria at the Arab League. Qatar even built a new embassy for the SNC in Doha. An Islamist Government-in-Waiting? The moderate Islamist, Ahmad Tumeh, is reported by various sources to have been elected on Saturday,...
