... of it for several years now. The reason why Brussels is becoming the world centre of Russophobia in its strangest manifestations is the inability of the European bureaucracy to develop in other directions, its limitations by the member states of the European Union themselves.
Third, Europe’s authority on the world stage is steadily declining. The main reason is the inability of the Europeans themselves to think at least a little about how their behaviour looks from the outside. Not to mention the ability to take into account the ...
One of the most important intellectual problems we face in thinking about the contributions of individual powers and regions to international politics is our failure to fully appreciate the extent of Europe's strategic decline
One of the most important intellectual problems we face in thinking about the contributions of individual powers and regions to international politics is our failure to fully appreciate the extent of Europe's strategic decline....
Working Paper #66, 2022
Working Paper #66, 2022
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict will lead to long-term global socio-economic and political consequences in the foreseeable future. Russian and foreign experts are currently exploring a wide range of scenarios for such transformation—from relatively positive to extremely negative. The author formulated three potentially possible options for the current world order transformation, assessing the probability and consequences of the practical implementation...
... treaty signed not by people but by sovereign nation states. As the EU is not a nation state, it is possible to claim that no European society can exist until the EU becomes a nation state or is substituted by it.
The previous paragraphs addressed the “European Union” part of the “European (Union) society”. Now, it is necessary to focus on the issues of “society”. The concept of “Gesellschaft”, which decently grasped the mode of interactions feasible in the second half of the 19
th
and during most of the 20
th
century,...
... The University Consortium
Andrey Kortunov
, Director of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), shares his analysis of Russia´s relations with its neighbours, EU and China.
Interviewer:
Marc Friedli
is currently a Project Assistant at the European Leadership Network, where he is mainly working on the upcoming 2021 NPT Review Conference. He is a Dual M.A. candidate in European Affairs at Sciences Po Paris and the London School of Economics and serves as Alumni Officer for the University ...
... conventions developed by the Council of Europe can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
The Council of Europe’s activities are divided into three parts. The first entails providing technical assistance to member states in assimilating the values of the European Union and the Council of Europe. The second consists in monitoring compliance with their commitments under the Charter and the commitments stipulated in previously adopted multilateral conventions and documents. Only the third part pertains to interpreting new problems and challenges ...
... November 18, 2020
On November 18, 2020, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Russian Federation Géza Andreas von Geyr was giving an open lecture at HSE University.
What is the place and role of the European Union in the modern world? How is the European integration project developing, and what role does Germany play in it? How are relations between the EU and Russia today?
The event was organized jointly by HSE University and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Moscow as part of ...
... Trump administration
announced
that it would be cutting the WHO’s aid package from $123 million to $58 million. The reason, according to U.S. officials, was that the assistance offered by other countries, particularly those that are members of the European Union, had failed to materialize. In reality, however, China received help and support from all corners – including a number of European states – during its darkest hours. And now that the country has got the spread of the virus under control, it is offering assistance to Europe, even though there is still a shortage of goods at home.
Andrey Kortunov:
Coronavirus: A New Bug ...
... organized by Friedrich Ebert Foundation, a German political foundation, and GLOBSEC, a Slovak think tank.
On August 29–30, 2019, OSCE Secretariat in Vienna hosted a meeting of an international expert group on the formation of a new security system in Europe.
The meeting was organized by Friedrich Ebert Foundation, a German political foundation, and GLOBSEC, a Slovak think tank. The meeting was attended by experts on European security issues from Europe and the USA, as well as employees of the OSCE ...
... large Russian-speaking communities as a fifth column leading to tensions that exist to this day. After a while, problems have accumulated, and Russia's unchanging attitude pushed the three Baltic republics towards the Western institutions: NATO and the European Union. In the midst of these problems, Russia has yet to change its attitude towards the Baltic states. Moscow preferred to talk to the 'old Europe' over the heads of Russia's closest Western neighbors. Russia still expects that Brussels, Berlin and Paris would solve all the problems within the EU and the Baltic states in particular. Such an approach gave Moscow a plausible pretext not to ...
