... assistance of Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany), a closed seminar was held for members of the German Bundestag and other parliamentarians from the European Union. The seminar focused on EU political strategy regarding key external partners — Russia, China, and Turkey — in the context of recent elections to the European Parliament and leadership changes in the European External Action Service.
Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, addressed the participants of the seminar.
... others? These are the questions addressed in the RAND think tank's recent
report
"
Fighting Shadows in the Dark. Understanding and Countering Coercion in Cyberspace
". The authors discuss cyber operations conducted by four states — Russia, China, Iran and North Korea — and try to determine whether those activities amounted to cyber coercion.
Starting with the study findings, we will highlight the following points. Cyber operations intended to coerce are a small subset of overall cyber ...
... position is on its rise.
If one looks at U.S. bilateral relations with other countries, the overall picture seems the same. The United States is very inconsistent in its policies towards North Korea, the Middle East (predominantly Syria, Turkey and Iran), China, Venezuela, and Ukraine. And this inconsistency doesn’t seem to be a part of a grand strategy defined within the laws of “realpolitik”, where actions change and fluctuate in accordance with the situation at hand, but more a proof of cluelessness ...
On November 7, 2019, Richard Weitz, Director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at Hudson Institute, delivered a public lecture at Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC). The speech focused on: “No Love Triangle Russia-USA-China: What Can We Expect from Our Partners?”.
On November 7, 2019, Richard Weitz, Director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at Hudson Institute, delivered a public lecture at Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC). The speech ...
... share Western interests (e.g. Tbilisi refused to recognize Kosovo).
Moscow should also be cautious when it comes to its bilateral relationship with Serbia. Belgrade is seeking support from Russia — and more recently from the People’s Republic of China — to counterbalance American and European soft power in Kosovo and does not support Moscow’s views regarding Abkhazia and South-Ossetia.
Geopolitics versus International Law
The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, signed ...
Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, took part in the Forum and made a report on the changing perceptions of globalization processes in the modern world at the session on the new world order
On November 1–3, 2019, in Beijing, Peking University together with the Beijing Municipal Commission of Education, and Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies co-hosted the 16th Beijing Forum. The Beijing Forum is one of the most representative academic evens for scientists and professors of humanities and...
... multipolarity dominated by the United States
. This new transformation is, first of all, caused by changes in military and strategic relations between Russia and the United States, as well as by the appearance of a new global centre of power, namely China, which is not involved in the nuclear disarmament process.
The gradual erosion of the strategic arms limitation and reduction regime
: the United States has now withdrawn both from the ABM Treaty and the INF Treaty, the New START treaty is set ...
... talking about their mission to empower everyone on this planet – what other planet could we be talking about? But the words “every person and every organization on the planet” are important to us because we want to be very clear: Whether it's China, whether it's somewhere in the Middle East, wherever we're not prohibited by law from doing business, we want to find a way to engage and bring our technology to improve the human experience.
This summer, the UN launched the work of an open-end ...
On November 1, 2019, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, gave a public lecture on “The Dynamics of China-the U.S. Relations and its Importance for Asia and Russia.” at the Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IISS) of Peking University.
On November 1, 2019, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, gave a public lecture on “The Dynamics ...
On October 29–31, 2019, Peking University hosted the sixth meeting of the “North Pavilion Dialogue”, an annual high-level international seminar focusing on topical issues of international relations and security.
On October 29–31, 2019, Peking University hosted the sixth meeting of the “North Pavilion Dialogue”, an annual high-level international seminar focusing on topical issues of international relations and security.
The meeting gathered former foreign ministers and other high-ranking officials...
