The UK’s unwillingness to risk military conflict with Russia is understandable. Corbyn’s justification for non-intervention is much less so.
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admin August 31, 2015 Russia and Eurasia
The UK’s unwillingness to risk military conflict with Russia is understandable. Corbyn’s justification for non-intervention is much less so.
Read More »Sarah De Geest April 11, 2015 Global Governance and Human Rights, Russia and Eurasia
States must stand against those who hijack it, however, by its very nature, R2P is a political tool and tensions exist with the ideological nature of international law.
Read More »Lauren Stauffer March 4, 2015 Latest Articles, Security and Defence
Over the past year, Turkey has taken several stances against what have otherwise been broadly held Western policy positions.
Read More »Ielizaveta Rekhtman November 11, 2014 Latest Articles, The Policy Unit
In the light of the Ukrainian crisis and its implications for global political actors, Ukraine’s internal balance of political power has been increasingly topical for Western and Russian analysts. From the Western and Russian perspectives, the Ukrainian crisis is a foreign policy issue with serious, but yet controllable, consequences. For Ukraine, the mounting external involvement has an impact on its internal matters that is hard to measure or control.
Read More »Rob Marchant March 16, 2014 Opinion, Russia and Eurasia
Last Thursday I took the metro to Belorusskaya, to get the Sheremetyevo airport train out of Moscow. Perhaps not for the last time in my life but probably the last for a while, at least. During the last six months I have met, befriended and drunk too much vodka with some warm, sensible and decent Russian people.
Read More »Rob Marchant January 9, 2014 Russia and Eurasia
Moscow, I have recently discovered, has a decent daily English-language newspaper, the Moscow Times. While its attitude to the Putin government tends to be a fairly balanced criticism rather than either cosying up it or vitriol against it, neither is it afraid to criticise, unlike a seemingly increasing number of other Russian media outlets.
Read More »Julie Lenarz August 21, 2013 Global Governance and Human Rights, Middle East and North Africa, Russia and Eurasia
Since the end of the Cold War, Russia’s influence in the Middle East has been greatly undermined and its policy has changed in emphasis and intensity. While during the clash between the two superpowers – the US and the Soviet Union – the Middle East was part of its ideological battlefield
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