... settlement or hold free and fair elections. A newly elected, legitimate president may be able to sit at the negotiating table with Russia and end the hostilities once and for all.
The Need for a Peaceful Resolution
The ongoing military conflict has resulted ... ... war-driven approach is not only harming Ukraine but also destabilizing the entire region. A pragmatic leader would prioritize diplomacy over conflict, seeking to secure a future of stability and peace.
The world must encourage a diplomatic settlement that ...
... European security that gave rise to the Ukraine crisis. Trump has declared that it is desirable to end the conflict in Ukraine, but he is unlikely to want to reach broader agreements with Moscow in terms of European security. Unlike the USSR, Russia is simply not perceived as a party with which new principles can be established on an equal basis or with which Moscow's demands on this issue at the end of 2021 can be seriously taken into account.
American diplomacy will probably try to stop the conflict by offering mutual exchanges and concessions. Even if the parties manage to reach such agreements, despite the factors mentioned above, they will be viewed by all participants as a temporary respite and ...
... cooperation or makes it impossible even in limited, but at the same time inclusive formats that were observed in the 1990s and 2000s.
Russia is trying to consolidate the global majority and build relations with the opponents of the United States. China creates ... ... for international relations in the economic and financial spheres, although it has so far avoided rigid military alliances. Diplomacy is again built around individual centers of power, moving away from multilateralism to the tasks of the balance of power....
... alliance is a long way off. Moscow and Beijing are not striving for it. But their interaction is now closer, and the United States will no longer be able to use Russia to balance China.
Andrey Kortunov:
‘Senior-Junior Partnership’ Claim Distorts Russia-China Relations
Chinese diplomacy has been building an extremely cautious foreign policy since the late 1970s. Beijing has most consistently adhered to the principle of minimizing adversaries and maximizing friends. In many ways, China has achieved its goal, having managed to ...
... excluded, as partly demonstrated by the international meeting in Jeddah in August 2023.
The Global South embarks upon the path of diplomacy
In August, it became known about the consultations held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with the participation of the U.S.,... ... Africa on the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict. It is noteworthy that representatives of Ukraine attended the meeting, while Russia did not receive an invitation. It became known from open sources that during the event Saudi Arabia
shared
its own ideas ...
The termination of hybrid wars and their transformation into a hybrid peace is the fundamental problem of modern diplomacy
Over the past decade the concept of hybrid warfare has firmly established itself in political rhetoric in the West and in Russia. Russian experts have rightly pointed out the vagueness of the concept, its intersection with other concepts (such as irregular wars), as well as
the weak scientific base.
Nevertheless, the widespread use of the term can hardly be called accidental....
... parallels available from the Soviet times and today, the possibility of nuclear arms control, and prospects for U.S.-Russian relations.
The series of interviews was prepared as part of the Security Index Occasional Paper Series dedicated to US-Soviet/Russian relations in the times of crises and lessons learned from the Esalen Track 1.5 Diplomacy.
Océane Van Geluwe: According to you, what are the main differences between the Cold War times and the current times?
Dr. Andrey Kortunov: In my perspective, the main difference, especially in Russia, is organizational and management construction....
... Russia a list of real estates that could be transferred to the Polish side to equalize the property balance. However, there was no progress in the negotiations, and Poland preferred to resolve the controversial embassy property issue by force rather than diplomacy.
Over the past year, there have been more exotic violations of the existing diplomatic practices. For example, during an official visit of Russian Ambassador Sergey Andreev to the Polish Foreign Ministry Polish diplomats
suggested
that he openly "condemn" Russia’s policies, promising the support of the Polish authorities in return.
However, the situation with the school building ...
Such a large and powerful country really cannot be isolated in terms of foreign policy
The sooner we understand that the basis of “soft power” is internal, and not in the activities of Russia’s representatives abroad, the sooner we will be able to benefit from our own objective advantages, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Timofei Bordachev.
A year into the conflict between Russia and the West turning into a proxy military confrontation,...
... apparently scheduled for January 23 in Qatar (again, the start date for Lavrov’s African tour),
never took place
. It might be that getting Paul Kagame and Félix Tshisekedi to participate in the same event could well be one of the challenges for Russian diplomacy during the preparation for the Summit, given the current antagonism between the DRC and Rwanda.
Finally, one cannot but mention an essentially new level of external pressure exerted by all parties on the countries of Africa within the walls ...
