Alexander Iskandaryan is Director of the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan, Armenia.
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29 august 2018
Merkel’s Trip to a Divided Region
The main value of the visit lies in the fact that the agendas differed radically for the countries of the South Caucasus – the diversification of relations was visible to the naked eye.
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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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How to Win a Cold War
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Sergey Karaganov -
A new world order: A view from Russia
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Sergey Karaganov, Dmitry Suslov -
Chances for a New “Peace of Westphalia”?
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Kancho Stoychev, Andrei Raichev -
Russia–Turkey Relations Need a Stronger Foundation
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Andrey Kortunov -
Germany’s Dangerous Nuclear Flirtation
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Wolfgang Ischinger
A new world order: A view from Russia
Since around 2017–2018, the world has been living through a period of progressive erosion, or collapse, of international orders inherited from the past. With the election of Donald Trump and the rapid increase of US containment of Russia and China—which is both a consequence of this gradual erosion and also represents deep internal and international contradictions—this process entered its apogee.
Russia-Japan -- peace can wait
Putin has snubbed Abe as he boosts links with China amid growing US hostility to Beijing and Moscow.
Living in a Crumbling World. Valdai Club Annual Report
In each of its annual reports since 2014, the Valdai Discussion Club has consistently spoken of the need to restore global governance – meaning the resolution of emerging and growing problems through institutions-based cooperation between states holding particular political and economic importance to world affairs.
Russia and Turkey: Approaches to Regional Security in the Middle East
Transformational processes in the Arab world in the beginning of the 2010s led Russia and Turkey to an understanding of the need to form new foreign policy approaches towards the Middle East. This article seeks to identify the impact of the approaches Russia and Turkey have taken on this issue on relations between Moscow and Ankara.
The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities
This is an excerpt from the new book The Great Delusion : Liberal Dreams and International Realities by John Mearsheimer.
Islam and Global Commons: The Gap between Principles and Practices
It is estimated that there are approximately 1.6 billion Muslims in the world today, who represent over 20% of the world’s population. No one is exempt from the vagaries of climate change, and Muslims have to accept their share of the responsibility.
The Summit in Singapore and the Failure of Donald Trump’s Diplomacy
It seemed before the Singapore summit, - the meeting of the leaders of the US and North Korea, which was drawing attention of the whole international community while being prepared, that Donald Trump’s “blackmail diplomacy” proved its effectiveness. However, is it possible to consider his policy towards Pyongyang and his administration’s foreign policy a success?