Topic: International security

Report No. 85 / 2023

There is no way Ukraine and NATO can “win” the military confrontation against Russia, and the best-case scenario they can project is tying down Russia in an endless conflict

Five questions regarding China-Russia relations and Chinese policy through the prism of the Russia-Ukraine conflict

The world’s power center’s journey, a half millennium later, will have come full circle. Russia is not a bystander, but part of the action, pushing for change

Where is the world going? What does it mean the crisis of US-centered world order? How are the nuclear nonproliferation regime and American hegemony interconnected? What is the phenomenon of nuclear multipolarity?  

Working Paper No. 74 / 2023

The growing gap between the ends that the US seeks in international relations and the means that it has available is particularly striking in the case of the so-called dual containment policy that Washington now pursues toward Russia and China

The world really needs to question is the very fundamental requirement and existence of “NATO” itself

The Swedes and the Finns will become less secure

On May 20–21, 2023, the 31st Assembly of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy (SVOP) was held. The theme of the event was 'Self-determination in the midst of the storm. Russia and the World at the Turn of History’. The event was attended by RIAC members and experts.
The event was hosted by Fyodor Lukyanov, RIAC Presidium Member, SVOP Presidium Chairman. Within the framework of the…

On May 16, 2023, a regular meeting of the bilateral expert Russian-American dialogue between the Institute of the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISCRAN) and CISAC was held

The most important question for the Central Asian Five may be their ability to overcome the trap where they’re at a level of development when the destruction of the state is impossible, but so is reaching a new level in terms of the quality of life of the population