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Greater Europe as a Multilateral, Pragmatic Agenda for Turkey Despite impressive progress in recent years, Turkey has so far failed to make a strategic choice between developing the country as a global and open force and “Muslim parochial conservatism.” The first option is often associated solely ...
... Institute for Oriental Studies and Turkish Global Relations Forum. The event was attended by RIAC President Igor Ivanov, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Meshkov ( Statement ), RIAC Member Ambassador Pyotr Stegny, Turkey’s former deputy foreign minister Ertugrul Apakan, Turkish Ambassador to Moscow Aidyn Sezgin, President of Global Relations Forum Memduh Karakullukçu, as well as other Russian and Turkish experts. The participants focused on problems ...
... which is intensifying pressure on Moscow. But one of the main repercussions of the recent developments in Ukraine — especially the secession referendum in the Crimea set by the local authorities for March 16 — directly and strongly affects Turkey and the Turkey-Russia relationship. It is partially related to the local Tatars. About 250,000 Tatars live in the Crimea, around 12-13% of the overall population of which roughly 60% are ethnic Russians (80% of all Crimeans are Russian-speakers)....
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 relationships among major powers that seek to control threats but provide opportunities for new situations to develop. Refugees and fundamentalist agitators have become pawns in the game. The trend is reinforced by news and expert analysis about...
... recent divisions between the EU and Russia over the future of Ukraine demonstrate the urgent need to pursue a new European cooperative project: One that conceives of Europe in its broadest sense geographically and politically, from Norway in the north to Turkey in the south and from Portugal in the west to Russia in the east. A project that has as its goal not the creation of a single institution, but the creation of a Greater European zone of overlapping and deepening security, economic, political and ...
Grouping of “Middle Powers” Late September 2013 on the sidelines of 68th session of the UN General Assembly the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey and Australia held a meeting during which they reached an understanding to form a new informal negotiating network of “middle powers” – MIKTA. The five states considered that under the current architecture of global governance ...
... devoted to establishing a positive agenda for the Russian-Turkish relations took place in Istanbul. This meeting was the second joint event in the framework of cooperation between the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Global Relations Forum (Turkey) and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Russian side was represented by Pyotr Stegny, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation and RIAC member; Irina Svistounova, Senior Research ...
Pugwash became part of the Cold War realpolitik before the advent 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...
While praised as a triumph of contemporary diplomacy the United Nations regime to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical, biological) seems to have enabled every nation that wants a WMD capability to obtain the technology to become a threat, or in the case of terrorists and other non-state actors, to employ proxy governments who engage in WMD commerce to use it as a bargaining chip for other objectives. In spite of four Nobel Peace Prizes (Bunche, Arafat, Rabin, Peres)...
... for the huge issues that will be incurred by the union. On the other hand, if Moscow's Central Asian populace will flock to the EU instead and free up some of the traffic problems and high apartmental prices, I may reconsider my stance. Is Turkey On The Table? Still, participation of Central Asian states in the EU may not be as radical as Turkey’s, which Umland sees bearing fruits after original attempts all the way back to the 1960s. He does anticipate that such membership will ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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