... to the most extremist and unpredictable quasi-state entities, such as the Islamic State
(1)
and even Nazi Germany
(2)
. For its part, Russia claims that the world system is increasingly reminiscent of a “game without rules”, blaming the West for the escalation of conflicts and growing global chaos
(3)
. This development of international discourse inevitably raises questions as to how such a deep crisis in the relations between the parties has become possible and whether trust can somehow ...
... the principles of liberalism appear basically universal, the real-life models of the United States and Great Britain sharply differ from the continental versions of France, Italy and Spain. The Japanese and Indian systems markedly diverge from their Western counterparts. But they all represent liberalism.
Is Russian liberalism a reality?
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Maxim Bratersky:
Is Liberalism Dead?
When some say that liberalism in Russia has exhausted its historical resources, remember that there has never ...
... the United States and NATO were planning to capture Sevastopol and turn it into a naval base is not taken serious by NATO member-states, and is rejected outright by the majority of the elite. The dramatic crisis of confidence between Russia and the West that has peaked with the Ukraine crisis has led to both sides testing each other’s defence capabilities, seemingly ready to coexist in a paradigm of deterrence, discussing whether the current state of affairs represents a new configuration ...
... prompts attempts to understand it, to reduce the complexity by putting it within the framework of logical and comprehensible stories.
In their current assessments of the Ukrainian conflict, the decision-makers and commentators in Washington and other Western capitals also to a large extent rely on prevailing narratives. More often than not, this is not about understanding the logic of developments in Ukraine (Kiev’s behaviour is seen rather as a version of a general history of a young emerging ...
... Office in Moscow met RIAC Board of Directors who informed him about current RIAC projects on European security, Russia's relations with leading NATO member-states,
Greater Europe
prospects and mechanisms of restoring confidence between Russia and the West.
In turn, Robert Pszczel talked about NATO Information Office's plans for the near future.
On March 11, 2015, RIAC Program Manager Natalia Evtikhevich was in Stockholm to take part in a seminar “
The OSCE’s Role in Consolidating European Security
” held within the
Helsinki+40
project by the
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
, the Swedish Parliament and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (
UI
). The event was attended by Cochairman of “Helsinki+40” project Joao Soares, OSCE PA Secretary General Spencer Oliver, UI Director Mats Karllson and SIPRI Chairman...
..., representing widespread violations of human rights and testifying to the “worsened political situation in Russia” [
3
].
Relations between Britain and Russia deteriorated amidst the general worsening of relations between Russia and the West, which followed U.S. President Barack Obama, and began to resemble a classic “proxy war” period of a bipolar global political environment.
Vladimir Putin’s victory in the presidential elections in Russia on March 4, 2012 intensified ...
Shuttle diplomacy exercised by European leaders gives us a phantom of a chance that we must not overlook
The first impression from the Munich conference is that relations between Russia and the West are beginning to resemble a game of chicken. It is as if two airplanes are rushing towards each other head-on, and both crews refuse to deviate from their planned route. The only way for one side to win is for his opponent to lose. It is a virtually ...
The problem of Ukraine’s official accession to NATO is a derivative of the future Russia—West relations
On December 18, 2014 President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko submitted a draft law to Verkhovna Rada entitled “On Amending Certain Laws of Ukraine on Ukraine's refusal to implement the policy of non-alignment,” which was adopted ...
A round table discussion entitled “Russia and the West: the security relationship” was held on 6 February as part of the
Munich Security Conference
. The event was organised by the
European Leadership Network
, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (
NTI
) and the Russian International Affairs Council ...
