Political Deadlock over Nuclear Disarmament
(RIAC) The Ninth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) has opened in New York. Representatives of NPT member nations meet once…
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Focal Points in Arms Control
(PIN Points) In the contemporary world of growing complexity where major social, political, and economic shifts are determined by unexpected, cascade, and even catastrophic developments, facilitation of coordination among actors become…
Forum: NATO and Russia
(Survival: Global Politics and Strategy) Editor's note: In the last issue of Survival, Matthew Kroenig proposed a number of alterations to NATO policy and posture, including forward deployment of conventional forces in…
Troitskiy: If anyone was ‘aikido-ed,’ it was Russia in Ukraine
(U.S. News & World Report) As Russia’s economy crumbles, the war in Ukraine drags on and Moscow’s ties with the West get more and more confrontational, it’s worth asking: Does…
New Policy Memo: Unable to Lead, Reluctant to Follow: Russian, Chinese, and Indian Approaches to Balancing the West
Despite increased uncertainty about the economic prospects of Russia, India, and China (RIC), these countries continue to attract significant attention as potential sources of concerted counterbalancing postures vis-à-vis the developed…
Unable to Lead, Reluctant to Follow: Russian, Chinese, and Indian Approaches to Balancing and Bandwagoning with the West
Despite increased uncertainty about the economic prospects of Russia, India, and China (RIC), these countries continue to attract significant attention as potential sources of concerted counterbalancing postures vis-à-vis the developed…
Sino-Russian Pivot and American Power
Mikhail Troitskiy exlpores the sources of mutual reassurance in Sino-Russian relations. In his view, the surprising lack of openly balancing behavior by Moscow and Beijing vis-a-vis each other is best…
Russia still defiant against sanctions, but for how long?
(Russia Direct) NATO allies are resorting to stepped-up economic sanctions against Russia. They are doing it because they are convinced that diplomacy has failed to deter Russia from intervening in…
Кому нужно ядерное оружие?
В начале второго десятилетия XXI века дискуссия о роли ядерного оружия в мировой безопасности получила новый импульс. Основной вопрос в этой дискуссии сегодня формулируется так: не устарело ли ядерное оружие…
Troitskiy: ‘Fascist’ is now being used to designate all things obnoxious and bad in the Kremlin line of argument
(CNN) — There is a consistent message on Russian state media concerning the situation in Ukraine. The revolving "crisis in Ukraine" bug on state news channel Rossiya 24 sums it…