This article notes that Washington and Tokyo intend to continue hindering Taiwan’s reunification with Mainland China, which would greatly strengthen Beijing’s position in the Pacific Ocean. Under the administration of President Donald Trump, the United States notably stepped up its support for Taiwan, in both expanding its official ties with Taipei and supplying it with American arms.
Greetings to Current and Former Russian Foreign Ministry Staff on Diplomats’ DayVladimir Putin Message of Greetings on Diplomats’ DaySergey Lavrov WORLD ISSUES Crisis of Trust: The Search for New Approaches to Nuclear Arms ControlP. Sevostyanov, V. Mizin Scylla and Charybdis: The Self-Determination of Peoples Versus the Territorial Integrity of StatesA. Kagramanov Does the UN Internet […]
ACCORDING to many of our international relations experts, a presidential decree to approve a new edition of the Foreign Policy Concept of Russia will become one of the most important novelties of 2022. It will be the sixth doctrinal document in our country’s recent history: Previous versions of the key diplomatic “manifesto” were issued in […]
GEOPOLITICS AND SECURITY Military-Political Aspects of Cooperation Between Russia and Kazakhstan on Countering Terrorism and Other Transnational ThreatsV.I. Tokhmyakov, B.S. Abzhanov Ukraine-NATO: An Anti-Russia Project (Read this article online for FREE)V.P. Baranov “War” and “Armed Conflict”: Similarities and DifferencesA.I. Malyshev, Yu.F. Pivovarov, V.Yu. Khakhalev MILITARY ART The Increasing Importance of Preemptive Actions Against the AdversaryV.V. […]
Wars that are a continuation of politics by states have practically always been waged according to special rules of warfare, by a specially trained state organization: the army. Analysis of the international situation that has evolved lately shows that the military conflicts occurring in the world are fundamentally different from the classical war type. New-type conflicts lack the uniformity of organized force traditionally represented by the state. Instead, they feature nonstate entities as initiators of organized action and the employment of nonmilitary methods of confrontation along with traditional military methods.
THE APPROACHING 75th anniversary of the end of World War II gave a new lease of life to the so-called “memory wars.” On September 19, 2019, the European Parliament passed a resolution “On the importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe”1 that, among other things, shifted the burden of equal responsibility for World War […]
This article analyzes some aspects of civilizationism as a trend in the self-positioning strategies of several Asian states, notably China and India, as well as some other countries. Close attention is paid to the concept of the civilization state (CS), as distinct from the nation state (NS), where the former reveals the specific characteristics of the major non-Western states.
GEOPOLITICS AND SECURITY Deterrence and Coercion in the Hybrid Warfare StrategyA.A. Bartosh The World Geopolitical Situation and Its Influence on the Regulatory and Legal Framework of Preparing Russia’s Population for DefenseA.G. Likhonosov, I.V. Vasilyev Trends in Threats to the Military Security of the Russian FederationD.A. Pavlov, V.Yu. Sizov MILITARY ART On the Detection of Decoy […]
Wars that are a continuation of politics by states have practically always been waged according to special rules of warfare, by a specially trained state organization: the army. Analysis of the international situation that has evolved lately shows that the military conflicts occurring in the world are fundamentally different from the classical war type. New-type conflicts lack the uniformity of organized force traditionally represented by the state. Instead, they feature nonstate entities as initiators of organized action and the employment of nonmilitary methods of confrontation along with traditional military methods.
WORLD ISSUES Escalation Around Taiwan: Facets of the ConflictS. Trush Practical Results and New Horizons of Eurasian IntegrationM. Myasnikovich, V. Kovalyov Cooperation Between the Amazonian Countries Amid Current Global ChallengesYa. Burlyay, B. Nekrasov RUSSIA AND OTHER NATIONS Politics of Memory in Russian-Japanese Relations: Resolving Differences of OpinionN. Bondarenko The Indo-Pacific as a Geopolitical Construct: India’s […]