Foreign opinion
In this special interview for the Russian International Affairs Council Professor Michael Doyle analyses the practical dilemmas of humanitarian interventions in the examples of NATO’s military intervention in Libya and the international response to the Syrian civil war. He discusses the circumstances under which ...
The war in the Middle East as a consequence of the crisis of confidence in the world
In July the UN Security Council must decide what to do with the mission of international observers in Syria. Under the current mandate, which was established on April 21, 2012 Security Council resolution number 2043, their planned 90-day mandate expires on July 20th....
The status and viability of Palestinian State
In 2011, Palestine applied for a full membership in the United Nations. Broad international support for this move forced the USA to proclaim its determination to veto this move in the Security Council.
Meanwhile, the impasse in the Palestinian-Israeli dialogue, and the still fragile peace between Fatah and ...
... observers’ mission gives hope for the resolution of this conflict within a framework of the international law. Both resolutions on the establishment of the monitoring mission -
№ 2042 of April 14
and
№ 2043 of April 21
– were adopted unanimously by the UN Security Council. Whether this last chance allowing to avoid a long civil war fraught with sending new shocks across the region will be used depends now on the Syrian authorities and the opposition.
The responsibility to protect ...
The best fights the good, or what can replace the UN?
With the unipolar world triumphant, a decline of the UN role turned out to be a short-term trend. With the changing balance of power in the international arena and the defamation of the US in its capacity of a world hegemon, the UN role of a negotiation ...