Russia in Global Affairs

Current geopolitical divisions are causing global markets to stop functioning normally. Markets themselves have become fragmented, supply chains are more unsafe, and incentives to invest in and expand production have weakened.

While the Energy Charter has faced its own crises during the last two decades, it is now time to take the opportunity of further strengthening the organization. The Energy Charter is up to the challenge and we are now only beginning to realize its potential of becoming a 21st-century governance power in the energy investment field.

Coauthored report assesses realities of energy markets, recommends fundamental change in attitudes to improve bilateral ties CAMBRIDGE, Mass., and MOSCOW, Russia, January 11, 2013—The Working Group on…

Europe may continue building its relations with Moscow, viewing it as the main historical “outsider.” However, such an approach has been rejected by the Franco-German axis and some other countries in the EU. A continued confrontation in the energy policy is a costly and unrealistic scenario.

As a result of the present worldwide economic crisis, and the twin challenges of climate change and global energy security due the huge energy demand…

Discussions about the global political shift of Russia from the West to the East are gradually acquiring a more practical dimension in the energy sphere.

Fukushima has demonstrated that the days when a country hit by a nuclear accident deals with the consequences on its own are gone. The internationalization of challenges facing the world nuclear power industry requires that the nuclear community internationalize the response – the more so in security matters and, in particular, in such emergencies as nuclear accidents.

The next decade, as the 1970s, is unlikely to be calm: we may expect a series of crises and imbalances. We cannot rule out geopolitical upheavals and changes, especially in the Middle East and the post-Soviet space. The crises will alternate with upturns; and despite pessimistic forecasts, the global trend of world development will not be disrupted.

Re-economization of the EU’s energy security benefits both Russia and the EU, as politicization of the sphere leads but to an impasse. Still, we must be prepared for an activation of somewhat forgotten or yet incompletely shaped contradictions – the problems of legal approximation and liberalization, differing perceptions of reciprocity, and the dissimilarities in building dialogue between the private and public sectors.