EDITOR-IN-CHIEF INTERVIEWS

“Such Negative Relations Between Washington and Moscow Are Unacceptable”
L. Slutsky

“The U.S. Wants Syria to Become Its Foreign Policy Tool”
Walid Muallem

WORLD ISSUES

A New Helsinki Process: Pros and Cons
V. Petrovsky

July 2018 NATO Summit: “Technical” Decisions and “Strategic Ambiguity”
D. Danilov

NATO and the OSCE: Partners or Rivals?
Yu. Belobrov

The German Social Democratic Party’s Merkelization and Departure From Brandt’s Ostpolitik
V. Vasilyev

UK Security After Brexit: Priorities and Safeguards
T. Andreyeva

Unilateral U.S. Sanctions Against Russia: The Viewpoint of International Law
A. Gulasaryan

The Indo-Pacific Region: A New Reality in the Global System of International Relations
D. Streltsov

VIEWPOINT

The Mediterranean: An “Ever-Floating Continent”
V. Popov

COMMENTARY AND ESSAYS

The Lone Wolf as the Latest Form of Terrorist Activity
A. Smirnov, N. Andryukhin

U.S. Doctrinal Approaches to the Role of Armed Forces in National Security: Post-Cold War Evolution
I. Prokopyev

German Ideas on Security
F. Basov, V. Vasilyev, A. Kokeyev, M. Khorolskaya

Fringe Political Parties in European Countries
S. Gavrilova

France: Challenges to External and Internal Security (2017-2018)
K. Zuyeva, P. Timofeyev

Kaliningrad as the Baltic Outpost of Russia’s Soft Power Policy
Ya. Vorozheina

Integration Trends of Belarus: Legal and Political Aspects
A. Yegorov

RUSSIA AND OTHER NATIONS

Russia and Japan: A New Agenda
O. Paramonov, O. Puzanova

Russia and the Baltic Countries: Causes of the Crisis
A. Skachkov

OUTSTANDING DIPLOMATS

Sergey Tikhvinsky: Diplomat, Historian, and Orientalist
E. Guseva

HISTORY AND MEMOIRS

Prince Gorchakov as a Mirror of the Cyclical Nature of Russia’s History: The 220th Birth Anniversary
A. Bilyalitdinov

BOOK REVIEWS

“I Am Not the First Warrior, Nor the Last”
S. Filatov

Russian Diplomacy in the Past Century: Reflections on a Historic Mission
R. Reinhardt

“The Bravehearted Queen”
Ye. Studneva

Four Hypostases of General de Gaulle
P. Timofeyev

INDEX TO VOLUME 64 (NOS 1-6) JANUARY-DECEMBER 2018