Norway’s involvement in international conflict management is a top priority of its foreign policy. Here it is guided by the belief that wars and instability even in the remotest corners of the world may threaten the prosperity of any individual in the supposedly safe part of it.
Norway’s involvement in international conflict management is a top priority of its foreign policy. Here it is guided by the belief that wars and instability even in the remotest corners of the world may threaten the prosperity of any individual in the supposedly safe part of it.
When the Baltic countries entered NATO and the European Union a couple of years ago, many thought it was the end of the centuries-old "red line." Euro-Atlantic organizations had crossed into the former Russian and Soviet empires.
In September 2004, the Russian city of Novgorod hosted an international conference entitled Russia at the Turn of the Century: Hopes and Reality. Its organizers were the RIA Novosti news agency, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Russia in Global Affairs, and The Moscow Times.