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1 november 2017
Russia Has Grand Designs For the International Order (Op-ed)
Moscow’s new grand strategy is still in gestation.
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30 october 2017
A Question of Sghei: Why Veneto and Lombardy Push for Autonomy
It has been a week since the referendum on autonomy in the Italian regions of Veneto and Lombardy regions took place. The central government in Rome is listening and watching carefully...
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30 october 2017
Nuclear Dangers from North Korea: Managing the Risks to the US and Russia
Among the most disturbing aspects of the North Korean nuclear problem today is the lack of a common perspective between Washington and Moscow.
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27 october 2017
The Sovereignty that Really Matters
The preference of some countries to isolate themselves within their borders is anachronistic and self-defeating, but it would be a serious mistake for others, fearing contagion, to respond by imposing strict isolation. Even in states that have succumbed to reductionist discourses, much of the population has not.
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26 october 2017
How the ‘Chinese Dream’ Will Impact Global Governance
The 19th Congress of the Communist Party of China is an intermediate stage in the formation of China as a leader of the new world order.
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26 october 2017
Why Do Russians and Americans Fail to Fix Syria Together?
It is too early to make any final judgements about the Donald Trump Administration strategy in the Middle East region, but for the Kremlin there are grounds to suspect that the United States might get back to its past posture.
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25 october 2017
Muqtada al-Sadr: A Way into the Arab World?
Muqtada al-Sadr is a descendent of the religious Sadr dynasty, a prominent family of Shiite intellectuals. He is one of a small number of politicians who possess significant influence in modern Iraq and who are capable of inspiring hundreds of thousands of people to take to the streets.
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23 october 2017
How the Catalonia Crisis Could Be Resolved
The Spanish prime minister’s decision to invoke Article 155 of the Constitution will not entail a full-fledged suspension of autonomy, but will probably include the convening of elections in Catalonia in early 2018, putting the Catalan police under control of Spain’s Home Affairs Ministry.
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23 october 2017
Constitution and Politics in Contemporary Japan
Japanese politics is now in flux. By the sudden dissolution of Diet by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this September political landscape is shifting quite rapidly.
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20 october 2017
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO): Bridging the Conflict between Progress and Humanism
The perspective from a highly technical and science-based organization, gives a positive and hopeful outlook on what technological progress can contribute to the future of humanity.
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18 october 2017
Revolution, War and Empire
My aim in this piece is to look at the international context of the Russian Revolution and to assess its influence on the Revolution’s causes, course and consequences.
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18 october 2017
Why Immigrants Voted For The Far Right in Germany (Hint: It’s Not Entirely The Kremlin’s Fault)
The far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) is about to take up its seats in German parliament. How did we get here?
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16 october 2017
Egoistic Hegemonism
The never-ending political infighting in the US could be viewed as an inevitable stage in an overly complex path the US must take to find its place in the world, one that is changing in spite of what the US wants or thinks. On the other hand, these political struggles make it even harder and more painful for the US and for the rest of the world to adapt to these changes.
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12 october 2017
Priorities of the EAEU: Development of the Internal Market and Free Trade Agreements
On Wednesday, October 11, a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council takes place in Sochi with the participation of the presidents of Eurasian Economic Union countries.
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12 october 2017
False Conflict: Universalism and Identity
Aristotle defined a city as a "unity out of plurality of individuals". Probably, this definition is suitable for the whole world, especially in the present era of globalization. Is there a contradiction in this formula, and is identity compatible with universalism?
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12 october 2017
Is Putin Losing Control of Russia's Conservative Nationalists?
What the Matilda Controversy Reveals About His Rule
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11 october 2017
Russia’s Wartime Economy
Will Vladimir Putin ever make Russia great again?
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10 october 2017
What Should the Gulf Crises Teach Us?
One of the most disturbing trends in international politics today is a rapid deterioration of the security situation in the Gulf area, — a region which remains a critically important part of the global economy, finance and transportation.
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10 october 2017
Clinton and Russia: Who is Ms Hillary?
In her recently published book on why she lost the 8 November 2016 US presidential election, What Happened, Hillary Rodham Clinton provides a powerful and in some ways convincing interpretation of events.
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9 october 2017
Russians, Saudis look to spruce up relations
The Saudi king’s visit to Russia this week was an event Moscow has been anticipating for many years. Amid recent years' flurry of visits by Middle Eastern leaders, the Saudi monarch arguably had been the only one missing.
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5 october 2017
New U.S. Ambassador to Russia Wants to Bring Relations to ‘Higher Altitude,’ but Not Potemkin-Style
Washington’s new ambassador to Russia, Jon Huntsman, landed in Moscow this week and presented his credentials to President Vladimir Putin on Oct. 3.
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5 october 2017
Germany’s Problem Is Europe’s Problem
Germans have enjoyed a long holiday from history, but it looks like their vacation is over.
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4 october 2017
The Turn of the Kurds
There is not and should not be any automatic right of self-determination, not least because a world of frequent secession would be in even greater disarray than the world we already have. To gain international recognition, secessionist entities should meet five key criteria – and Iraq's Kurdistan Region satisfies all of them.
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4 october 2017
Indifference Threatens Russia–France Relations
300 years of Russia-France diplomatic relations have been marked by a lot of events that seriously affected their development.
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3 october 2017
The Price of Peace: The Parameters of a Possible Compromise in Donbass
The most difficult decisions for a politician to make is where exactly to draw the red line separating the inevitable concessions and compromises from capitulation, treason and personal shame. In other words, the politician has to learn what can and cannot be the subject of political bargaining.
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2 october 2017
Kurdish referendum a double-edged sword for Russia
The runup to the Kurdish independence referendum that took place Sept. 25 revealed just how politically intertwined different actors are in the modern Middle East. Russia is no stranger to diplomatic games and typically follows a strategy of inserting itself into the most dynamic contexts, hoping to reap benefits and make itself more visible in the region.
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2 october 2017
Zapad Wargames and Living in Uncertainty
The Russian-Belarusian Zapad (West) military exercises, which were held in the latter half of September, have disappointed many people.
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2 october 2017
Russian-Saudi Rapprochement?
Iran and Economic Strain Will Make It Tough
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29 september 2017
China and Central Asia: Post-Soviet Developments
Central Asian attitudes to China are vastly different from how China is perceived in Europe, the rest of Asia and other parts of the world. Politicians, businessmen and ordinary people in Central Asia are either baffled or inspired by the geographical proximity of their huge neighbor.
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29 september 2017
Referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan: Unity and Cohesion of the People
On September 25, 2017, a referendum on independence was held in Iraqi Kurdistan, which was condemned by the governments of Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. According to the Iraqi Kurdistan Electoral Commission, more than 90 percent (2.86 million out of 3.31 million) of the referendum participants voted for independence.
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Back into the Future, Or Cold War Lessons for Russia
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Four Years Since Maidan: Why Russia-West Reconciliation Will Remain Crucial During Putin’s Fourth Term
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The arrival of post-Putin Russia
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The West’s Unilateral Cold War
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WEF-2018: Everybody First
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No Need to Wait for an Attack, the Threat of War Is in the Air
“Russia and China need to think about creating a joint strategy to strengthen peace. There is no need to wait for someone’s attack – the threat of war in the air,” Valdai Club expert Sergei Karaganov, who takes part in the Russian-Chinese conference in Shanghai.
Back to Balance. New Weapons As Effective Deterrence
Many bad things have been said about nuclear weapons in the decades since they first came into existence. Indeed, in the middle of the 20th century the human race developed a means of confrontation with the potential to destroy the entire world were it used on a large scale.
How to Survive in a Trench Warfare
The next six-year cycle of Russia’s foreign policy does not promise any easy victories. The previous six years could be likened to a breakneck cavalry charge against a complacent enemy.
Armenia: Why Has Vladimir Putin Not Intervened So Far and Will He?
The resignation of Armenia’s Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan after more than a week of mass protests in Russia’s backyard begs the question: Why has Moscow not intervened so far?
Russia and China: The Challenges of Excellent Relations
The Russian-Chinese relations can be called excellent. However, this is what makes one think very seriously about the future of these relations. It is the main problem of any success: having achieved something, one always has to stop and think what to do next.
A Pyrrhic Victory: the History of the Sanctions War Against Iran
The history of sanctions against Iran deserves close analysis in light of the growing sanctions pressure on Russia. Although Iran and Russia are different countries facing different sanctions paradigms, Iran’s experience is meaningful if only because both countries have to contend with US sanction law.
De-dollarization in the EAEU Member States: Key Trends and Prospects
The emerging trend towards de-dollarization in the EAEU can make domestic monetary policy more efficient as well as facilitate economic integration in the Eurasian space.