Alexander Iskandaryan is Director of the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan, Armenia.
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20 november 2017
Glocalization: When Globalization Goes Local
Complexity and diversity make the world more stable. A global world with identical political, economic, and any other elements could have more, not less conflict. Globality is getting localized, and locality can be globalized, too. These two trends do not contradict each other: on the contrary, their synthesis is a source of stability.
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30 october 2014
Playing its own game: Belarus as a peacemaker between Russia and the West
The leadership in Minsk seems to be taking advantage of the crisis in Ukraine to improve its image
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27 october 2013
Why Are We Drifting Apart?
In ten to fifteen years from now the generation of the elites that grew in the Soviet Union and that shares the same culture codes and the ability to communicate with each other like people of one country, and not like foreigners, will begin to leave the stage.
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Endless Endgame: Whither Russia-West Confrontation?
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Elkhan Nuriyev -
No Need to Wait for an Attack, the Threat of War Is in the Air
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Sergey Karaganov -
Russia’s Post-Election Foreign Policy: New Challenges, New Horizons
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Igor Ivanov -
A US Withdrawal from Syria?
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Paul Saunders -
The Day the United Nations Ceased to Exist
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Andrey Kortunov
Ideology of Eastward Turn
The first phase of Russia’s turn towards rising Asia is gaining momentum – the Far East’s rate of development is twice the national average.
Russia can be the honest broker in Korean diplomacy
Only joint efforts with US, China, North and South Korea will bring a lasting deal
Not to Disappear One by One
Vladimir Putin’s visit to China and the simultaneous G7 summit in Canada created an unprecedentedly hard background for comparison. The US president’s public denunciation of his Western allies and his refusal to sign the G7 summit’s final statement have only emphasized the stability and promise of Russian-Chinese cooperation.
Putin’s Economic Dilemma
Despite Western sanctions and oil-price volatility, Russia is currently on sturdier economic footing than most of its critics ever could have imagined just a few years ago. But while prudent fiscal and monetary policies have laid the groundwork for long-term sustainable growth, the government must resist the temptation of short-term stimulus.
Fighting Sanctions: From Legislation to Strategy
President Vladimir Putin has signed federal law "On Measures (Countermeasures) Against Unfriendly Actions of the United States of America and Other Foreign Countries." The State Duma is also discussing sanctions-related amendments to the Criminal Code.
Infrastructure Connectivity and Political Stability in Eurasia
The country’s geographic location largely predetermines its foreign policy, as well as the trajectory of its socioeconomic development. However, even the most negative geographical limitations can be overcome via connectivity and compatibility that are the passport to the success of Eurasian integration.
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.