Policy Brief # 56 / 2024
Policy Brief # 56 / 2024
Climate change is identified in Russia’s Climate Doctrine as “one of the most serious challenges of the 21st century,” a statement that is hard to disagree with. Scientists around the world have agreed that anthropogenic factors play a key role in this process through greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. According to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), by 2020, the increase in global average temperature...
Russia faces a tough choice in Africa: either to focus on low-risk and highly competitive markets, where projects will depend on a changeable political climate and eventualities or to explore high-risk and low-competition markets where Moscow has inherent non-market advantages and ...
The West has caught the continent in a neocolonial trap – it needs new partners
Africa’s tragic plight serves as a grim reminder of what happens when geography and history conspire against a region. Often referred to as the cradle of humanity, the continent remains plagued by poverty, instability, and conflict. Despite its immense ...
... and civil society organisations and NGOs.
This kind of ASEAN hedging allows for good relations with the US, China, Japan, South Korea (ASEAN+3), South Asia (ASEAN-SAACR), Europe ASEAN-EUROPE (Asia-Europe: ASEAN+3 and the 26 EU member nations), ASEAN-AFRICA nations and so forth. There is also ASEAN-BRICS is a partnership between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the BRICS intergovernmental organization. The three ASEAN countries of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand became a full ...
... political and military power.
Therefore, it can be said that these investment policies inevitably reflect China’s vision of how to achieve long-term political and economic goals. On this basis, it seems that the influence of Chinese investments on the African continent represents a geostrategic change that will upset many global economic and political balances at all levels and in all areas.
Chinese investments have expanded their scope of work across the continent, and the volume of trade between ...
... the Russian labor market. During the second session experts exchanged views on the perception of migrants from distant countries in Russian regions. They also discussed the main trends in the field of educational migration to Russia from countries in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and other regions of the world.
Vladimir Mukomel, head of the Center for Research of International Relations of the Institute of Sociology of Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy ...
..., which came to power via a series of military coups in 2020–2023, to chart a joint course of political and economic development. The AES was announced after Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger withdrew in January 2024 from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)—a regional bloc that urged the trio’s leaders to restore civilian rule in their countries.
At the opening of the Niamey summit, Niger’s military leader
said
, inter alia, that his “people have irrevocably turned their ...
... Geostrategic Competition in Sahel: Positions of Russia, the U.S., France and the EU.” The seminar was attended by heads of security departments, scholars and researchers at NIIA. The Russian delegation included representatives from the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), MGIMO University and HSE University.
The participants were invited to speak about the specific features of internal social and political processes in the Sahel amid geopolitical and geostrategic ...
... by a bloody civil strife and christened as the “Black Decade”. In the 2000s, the country was forced to confront the terrorist activities of AQIM only to face the challenges of the Arab Spring in the 2010s. Finally, by now, the largest country in Africa and the Arab world is surrounded by zones of political conflict, instability and tension along most of its vast (6,343 km) land border: Libya, Niger, Mali, Western Sahara.
The dramatic experience in a relatively short historical period, the current ...
On May 15, 2024, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) jointly held a roundtable discussion “Information and Cultural Sovereignty of Sahel Countries Amid Global Transformation Processes. Threats and Opportunities for the System of Russia-Africa Relations”
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