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 ...
... what we aim to do with new partnerships with the founding member BRICS countries like Russia, China, India, Brazil and South Africa and also with ASEAN+3 partners - Japan, the People’s Republic of China, and South Korea.
For ASEAN-US cooperation we ... ... Dialogue and Funding Platforms
ASEAN-US Partnership: Expand the ASEAN-US partnership to include disability-focused initiatives.
USAID Collaboration: Leverage USAID’s expertise and funding to implement programs for special needs youth.
ASEAN Initiatives ...
... 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 ...
Russian-African ties pose both opportunities and challenges for African countries, but Moscow's renewed engagement in Africa raises concerns among Western nations.
The African continent is witnessing a noticeable escalation in the competition between the United ...
Africa is big enough to accommodate everybody—its needs are incredibly huge and its prospects are truly breathtaking
Just over a year ago, at the US-Africa leaders' summit in Washington in December 2022, President Joe Biden made a public commitment ...
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s tour portrayed Washington’s official strategy as more benevolent than it actually is
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin embarked on a tour of Africa this week, marking the first such visit by a Pentagon chief since 2020, when Mark Esper visited Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. In contrast to that occasion, when no attention was paid to Sub-Saharan Africa, Austin’s trip was intended to reaffirm ...
Working Paper No. 74 / 2023
Working Paper No. 74 / 2023
The working paper seeks to analyze constitutive voting patterns of Sub-Saharan states of Africa at the UN General Assembly. The methodology proposed in this paper offers an opportunity to explore this issue topic-wise as well as in a broader sense. The paper considers a number of indicators that help assess the involvement of the continent’s ...
In Africa, Moscow is moving from “flexible geometry” toward agile and parallel dialogue structures, which entails nuanced and subtle work
Since the early days of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, the diplomacy of the Сollective West ...
... hectares of fields have been deactivated.
As for the alleged cases of grain stealing, we categorically reject such baseless accusations. It was clearly stated on June 7 by Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, that the organization ... ... contracts regarding shipments of agricultural products. We are aware of the importance of our wheat for the nations of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the
Middle East
. In the current agricultural year, our exports will amount to 37 million tons of ...
Prof. Tanaka reflected on the 60th anniversary of the US-Japan Security Treaty, what President Trump's 'getting tough' stance means for the world and why Japan is open to cooperation with third parties in Africa
On February 7, 2020, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted Professor Tanaka Akihiko, President of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), for a
round table
on the topic “International Politics in East ...