On March 1, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, spoke at the
Geneva Centre for Security Policy
.
The lecture was devoted to the prospects of relations between Russia and the West in the conext of the EU crisis and new U.S. administration.
Andrey Kortunov also discussed institutional cooperation between RIAC and the Centre with its authorities and took part in the international school for non-profit organizations' leaders ...
... it is possible that at some point, the security issue will be discussed as well, in particular, ensuring automobile and railway transportation security.
Thus far, Russia’s foreign policy is mostly oriented towards stabilizing relations with the West and resolving the Syrian crisis. Therefore, the post-Soviet space will occupy a relatively smaller place in its foreign policy priorities than could have been expected if it were not for the Syrian crisis.
In this connection, the Ukrainian crisis ...
Europe, the US, and Russia are confronting a range of significant issues today. The practical near-term steps that we have identified here are the right place to begin. We need to start now.
The chasm between Russia and the West appears to be wider now than at any point since the Cold War. But, despite stark differences, there are areas of existential common interest. As we did during the darkest days of the Cold War, Americans, Europeans, and Russians must work together ...
... ultimately demonstrated the weakness of the foundations that seemed immutable, by sheer force of inertia, just a couple of years ago. Let’s analyze the contours of this new reality.
The era of security is a thing of the past for Europe and the West as a whole. The twenty years since the end of the Cold War provided a very favorable environment for the citizens of Western states: the absence of a serious external threat, technical, economic and moral dominance, and a high level of personal security ...
... suggests possible measures to solve the issues in the sphere of security.
Author: Ivan Timofeev, Director of Programmes at the Russian International Affairs Council, Head of "Contemporary State" program at Valdai Discussion Club.
Russia and the West: the New Normal
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NTI Report
Russia and the West are at a dangerous crossroads. During the past several years, we have been in a state of escalating tension, trapped in a downward spiral of antagonism and distrust. With our militaries moving closer—in the skies over the Baltic Sea, in the depths ...
... “
Hypocrisy vs. Diplomacy: How Insincerity Undermined the World Order After the Cold War
,”
Russia Direct
sat down with Andrei Kortunov, general director of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), to figure out how Russia and the West can get past accusing each other of engaging in double standards when it come to the implementation of foreign policy.
Russian pundits and politicians believe that their Western counterparts have always been hypocritical toward Russia. Given the ...
On December 8, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, delivered a public lecture in London School of Economics «The Kremlin’s logic: evolution of relations between Russia and the West».
The lecture was attended by London School of Economics’ and other British universities’ professors and PhD students, think tank representatives, government officials and journalists.
... cooperation with the
Robert Bosch Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia at the DGAP
, the
SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University
and the
Robert Bosch Stiftung
held a seminar «Russia and the West - Building a new Modus Vivendi?».
The seminar agenda covered the following issues: security relations; economic and energy relations; the challenge of Eastern Europe for Russian-Western relations; new agenda for Western relations with Russia....
... «Hypocrisy vs Democracy: Insincerity Destroying the Global Order after the Cold War». About forty experts, journalists and diplomats from Russia, the USA, Bulgaria, Greece, the UK, and Turkey took part in the conference.
The participants discussed the Western and Russian approach to the history of NATO expansion, the promotion of democracy as a geopolitical tool, «Color Revolutions» and «Arab Spring», Ukrainian crisis narrative clash, diplomacy and public policy interaction,...
