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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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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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25 september 2017
The Guns of April, Or the Return of Strategic Frivolity
Today mutual respect is probably the scarcest commodity in relations between great or even just major powers. This is particularly visible in the divide between the West and the Rest.
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25 september 2017
How China and India can keep the peace in Ukraine
As the 2018 World Cup looms in Russia, the need for a peacekeeping force in the Donbass grows evermore urgent. Beijing should recognise the irony in coming to the aid of both the West and the former Soviet bloc.
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25 september 2017
Russia’s Many Futures
Russia will have many futures because it has had many pasts. Three aspects in particular stand out in any discussion of Russia’s future.
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22 september 2017
The Global Leadership Vacuum
Will Angela Merkel’s Germany ensure that great-power cooperation does not deteriorate beyond the point of no return in the Trump era? The answer to that question will likely determine if the international order has any order to speak of in the years ahead.
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21 september 2017
What’s the U.S.’s Best Chance With North Korea? Russia
Washington and Pyongyang will eventually need to resume direct talks. With neither party ready for that yet, at first secret contacts will have to be organized in third countries. In the meantime, de-escalation is the order of the day, and Russia one of its unlikely brokers.
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8 september 2017
Eurasia: Doomed to Division?
The past two or three years have witnessed unprecedented interest in Eurasia.
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8 september 2017
BRICS: Will the Future be Brighter?
The ninth BRICS Summit held on September 3–5, 2017, in Xiamen and chaired by China goes under the theme «BRICS: Stronger Partnership for a Brighter Future».
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8 september 2017
BRICS-Plus: Alternative Globalization in the Making?
By building a network of economic alliances across continents, the BRICS may take the lead in shaping global economic integration against the backdrop of waning integration impulses in the developed world.
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7 september 2017
Report: Toward the Great Ocean - 5: From The Turn To The East To Greater Eurasia
The report has been prepared based on the series of research conducted in late 2016 – early 2017 and the situation analysis “Turn to the East: A new stage and agenda for co-operation”.
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4 september 2017
What World War I Can Teach Us About How To Manage The North Korea Crisis
We should not delude ourselves with the assumption that peace is the natural state of mankind in our age.
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4 september 2017
China Sanctions Hint of What’s To Come
Recent US sanctions against China and Russia are signs of the Trump administration’s toughening approach to North Korea. Ironically, these sanctions come on the heels of a UN Security Council resolution imposing new measures against North Korea that the US, China and Russia voted in favor of.
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30 august 2017
A Regime With no Hegemon? Lessons from the West and Cooperation in Eurasia
This summer, the US Congress approved, and President Donald J. Trump signed a bill that made economic warfare against Russia, Iran and the DPRK an integral part of US foreign policy.
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29 august 2017
China sanctions hint of what’s to come
Recent US sanctions against China and Russia are signs of the Trump administration's toughening approach to North Korea.
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28 august 2017
How to Tame the Cyber Beast?
A decade ago it was possible to say that cyber was a promising new topic, which had the potential to stay beyond the realm of politics. Today, not so much.
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23 august 2017
Looking out Five Years: Ideological, Geopolitical, and Economic Drivers of Russian Foreign Policy
Putin has embraced patriotism and Eurasianism, but Russia must soon confront economic, security, and demographic headwinds, as well as the imperative of reform.
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23 august 2017
Eastern Europe is Heating up
Berlin’s current frustration with Warsaw is a symptom of Eastern Europe’s growing geopolitical importance. The region is attracting attention from two key global players: the United States and China. Germany is mainly concerned with Poland’s rapprochement with the United States and hostility towards Berlin.
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22 august 2017
Russia's WTO Membership – Marking the First 5 Years
This August Russia is marking its 5th anniversary of WTO membership. As Russians look back at the experience of the past 5 years for many this anniversary is a reminder of the record-long odyssey to join the Club as well as the disillusionment over the lack of dividends after the entry into the organization.
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14 august 2017
Afghanistan: Stabilization Is Far Away
The military and political situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate. The daily terrorist attacks, carried out by the Taliban movement and other radical groups, are aimed not only against government and military facilities, but also against the civilians.
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7 august 2017
What Chinese Naval Base in Djibouti Means
The recent official opening of the Chinese military base in Djibouti should be seen in the context of the Chinese naval presence expansion in the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean and the coming change of China’s role in global and regional security.
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2 august 2017
Russia’s Eurasian Model of Modernization
As Russia’s literary classicists claimed, the most important issue for Russia is a sense of direction and in today’s context this is exactly what is lacking in Russia’s economic policy paradigm.
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1 august 2017
The U.S. in Central Asia: between «С5+1» and «Make America Great Again»
October 30 to November 3, 2015, was marked by the first large-scale visit made by the U.S. Secretary of State to Central Asia, covering all five countries of the region.
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25 july 2017
The West’s Decadent Foreign Policy
The West is increasingly reluctant to allow its vision of civil liberties and human rights to shape foreign policy, often owing to the potential commercial costs. Such foreign-policy decadence threatens to undermine the West's claim to be a community of values – and the EU's claim to be more than a glorified customs union.
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24 july 2017
Russian-Chinese Exercises in the Baltic As an Element of a Changing World
On July 20th, the five day naval exercises between China and Russia were officially kicked off in the Baltic Sea. It seems that this has made restless the Western media. Even if it does not mean that "the specter of communism is wandering around Europe," at least one sentence is added: "This is another manifestation of the new authoritarian coalition."
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12 july 2017
G20 in Hamburg: Positive or Negative? Expert Discussion
The Valdai Discussion Club held an expert discussion dedicated to the results of the Hamburg G20 summit, which took place over the weekend.
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10 july 2017
North Korea and the Limits of Trump’s and America’s Power
Not for the first time in the past century, Korea is the most dangerous place on Earth. Kim Jong Un’s nuclear weapons and missile program is making seemingly rapid progress. The July 4 test demonstrated that North Korea is getting closer to building a missile that can deliver a nuclear warhead or chemical weapons to the continental United States. Even though North Korea is not yet capable of such an attack, it almost certainly will be within the next ten years.
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5 july 2017
China and Russia: Good Neibours, Good Partners
Compared with the ups and downs in relations between many big powers in recent years, the continuous, stable and effective promotion of Sino - Russian relations has shown a great contrast.
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3 july 2017
Trumpery and Knavery: Looking for the Virtuous
Donald J. Trump is an outsider to the political establishment, having never served in an elected of?ce before his unexpected victory in November 2016. His populist insurgency is grounded in his long experience as a maverick business tycoon.
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29 june 2017
Breaking the U.S.-Russia Impasse: Keeping the Door Open to Dialogue
The relations between the United States and the Russian Federation have been deteriorating at a rapid pace. Each nation has been accused of interfering in the domestic elections of the other, making it increasingly difficult for the respective administrations of these states to work cohesively to solve critical problems between the two states.
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How to Win a Cold War
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Shadows Over the Putin-Trump Summit
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Chances for a New “Peace of Westphalia”?
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Russia–Turkey Relations Need a Stronger Foundation
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A new world order: A view from Russia
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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?