Will Asia teach Europe a lesson?
The recent trip of President Putin to Harbin stirred up some of my personal memories and set up a train of thought regarding the long and complicated history of Russian-Chinese relations. I got to the lilac bush city for the first time in early 1990s; my impressions at that point were that Harbin was committed to do away with the last remnants of its Russian legacy as a symbol of European colonialism. Indeed, the city, which was founded in 1898 as a station to serve...
... extraordinary political role of the armed forces in Algeria’s political system, predetermine a very specific view of the entire system of international relations.
Thus, Algerian experts emphasize three key components of the nation’s approach to international security:
solidarity, globality and indivisibility [
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The former is understood, on the one hand, as solidarity of all actors in confronting global threats (terrorism, climate change, etc.), and, on the other hand, as solidarity with ...
Historians will most likely conclude the ambitious U.S.-led attempt to expand a militarized NATO on the border with Russia was an ill-conceived strategic failure resulting in lives lost and misplaced, and the catapult vital to compel a significant bi-polar alliance between BRICS to counter the once dominant NATO Alliance
NATO seems to be in disarray. NATO rested on their laurels that they could continue unabated in expanding the West’s military alliance to the doorstep of Moscow. The alliance placed...
Beijing is rather reluctant to get deeply involved in intra-regional politics in the Middle East, as this could provoke new tensions with the U.S.
The current escalation in the Middle East has been described by many as a test of influence for China. For example, the media repeatedly suggested that the United States asked China to put pressure on Iran during the latest rounds of escalation, especially after the Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus. Yet, if compared to Qatari, Egyptian...
The trip is likely to be quite special and important
In mid-May Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will fly to China on an official state visit. A sceptic would say that this visit is not really a big deal: the Russian leader and his Chinese counterpart, Chairman Xi Jinping had bilateral meetings at least forty times since 2013, when Xi was first elected as Chairman of PRC. The Russian President was in Beijing last time no longer ago than in October of 2023, when he participated to the high level...
The architecture of U.S. global air defense is gradually built around major hubs, some of them covering East Asia
Washington’s ambivalent approach to global strategic stability became clear back at the time of the New START signed in 2010. Despite Russia’s concerns, the document failed to enshrine any restrictions on the development of the U.S. air defense. Article XIV and Russian President’s
statement
stipulate that any buildup of the U.S. air defense capabilities in terms of quality and quantity...
... parity, peaceful coexistence with the United States, and the establishment of a balance of interests between Russia and the United States, taking into account their status as major nuclear powers and special responsibility for strategic stability and international security in general”. See: The Concept of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation, 2023 // Russian Foreign Ministry, March 31, 2023. URL:
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/fundamental_documents/1860586/
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... above the stated NATO goal to oblige all of its members to allocate no less than 2 percent of their GDP to defense.
Zhao Huasheng, Andrey Kortunov:
Prepare for the Worst and Strive for the Best. Russia’s and China’s Perceptions of Developments in International Security
No doubt, national leaders find many compelling reasons for their decisions to raise the stakes in global military competition. As many times before, they are actively engaged in an endless blame game with a clear intention to impose ...
On scenarios and conditions for the development of relations between Moscow and Pyongyang
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to North Korea, or the DPRK, which has been under discussion since January 2024, could not only be perceived as a reciprocal visit after the North Korean leader’s visit to the Russian Far East in the fall of 2023 but also as an extremely important step in bolstering relations between Moscow and Pyongyang.
Vladimir Putin visited North Korea in 2020, and along with the...
... Strategy, HSE University; Peter Topychkanov, Senior Researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies, IOS RAS; Irina Serenko, Senior Researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies, IOS RAS; Marianna Yevtodyeva, Senior Researcher at the Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS; Aleksei Zakharov, Research Fellow at the International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism, HSE University; Alexandra Zueva, Expert at the Institute of World Military Economy and Strategy, HSE University; ...
