The foreign ministers of the five great powers on the UN Security Council — China, Russia, the United States, Britain and France — signed a communiqué in Geneva on June 30, 2012 envisaging the establishment of a “transitional governing body.” The communiqué urged a quick end to the violence and stressed that the warring parties themselves should determine the future parameters for Syrian settlement.
Moscow and Beijing have repeatedly cited this agreement in the relevant Security Council resolution. However, our Western colleagues have consistently shied away from including ...
The unsuccessful attempts to overthrow the Assad regime are increasingly moving Israel to center stage, and the footdragging on Syria is significantly hindering a decision on what is perhaps Israel’s key foreign policy issue: Iran.
In a late July speech at the the ...
The strategies of indirect action and soft power are currently the most effective means of geopolitical struggle used by the ruling circles of the United States to defeat or weaken their actual and potential opponents on the international stage. China’s leaders use ...
A recent statement by Syria’s Information Minister that Qatar is violating all of the UN Security Council’s resolutions on fighting terrorism is being suppressed in the West. The United States and its allies are keeping silent because Doha is providing funding to carry ...
The Internet is becoming the easiest way of promoting extremism and encouraging terrorism. Investigations of terrorist attacks, including the latest one in Boston, have repeatedly shown that to be the case. The perpetrators of these crimes underwent a massive ...
Many Russian scholars and experts believe the Kurdish problem has started acquiring greater importance in the system of regional and international security. The events of the Arab Spring brought destructive forces into play and energized radical Islamist groups. They ...
The second trend is related to the kind of work a community that might be called “Korean Protestant sects” is doing against North Korea. I say “might be called “ because, on the one hand, these sects operate both in South Korea and in the United States. And on the ...
On April 23, a senior Israeli officer, Brig Gen Utai Brun, head of research at army intelligence, made a serious accusation against Syria. In a lecture at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies, he declared: ‘To the best of our professional understanding ...
Since the US’ announcement of its plan to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, much of the analysis and media talk has become obsessed with drawing the picture of Afghanistan in the post-withdrawal period. Although it may be tempting to speculate ...
The foreign ministers of the five great powers on the UN Security Council — China, Russia, the United States, Britain and France — signed a communiqué in Geneva on June 30, 2012 envisaging the establishment of a “transitional governing body.” The communiqué urged a quick end to the violence and stressed that the warring parties themselves should determine the future parameters for Syrian settlement.
Moscow and Beijing have repeatedly cited this agreement in the relevant Security Council resolution. However, our Western colleagues have consistently shied away from including ...
The unsuccessful attempts to overthrow the Assad regime are increasingly moving Israel to center stage, and the footdragging on Syria is significantly hindering a decision on what is perhaps Israel’s key foreign policy issue: Iran.
In a late July speech at the the ...
The strategies of indirect action and soft power are currently the most effective means of geopolitical struggle used by the ruling circles of the United States to defeat or weaken their actual and potential opponents on the international stage. China’s leaders use ...
A recent statement by Syria’s Information Minister that Qatar is violating all of the UN Security Council’s resolutions on fighting terrorism is being suppressed in the West. The United States and its allies are keeping silent because Doha is providing funding to carry ...
The Internet is becoming the easiest way of promoting extremism and encouraging terrorism. Investigations of terrorist attacks, including the latest one in Boston, have repeatedly shown that to be the case. The perpetrators of these crimes underwent a massive ...
Many Russian scholars and experts believe the Kurdish problem has started acquiring greater importance in the system of regional and international security. The events of the Arab Spring brought destructive forces into play and energized radical Islamist groups. They ...
The second trend is related to the kind of work a community that might be called “Korean Protestant sects” is doing against North Korea. I say “might be called “ because, on the one hand, these sects operate both in South Korea and in the United States. And on the ...
On April 23, a senior Israeli officer, Brig Gen Utai Brun, head of research at army intelligence, made a serious accusation against Syria. In a lecture at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies, he declared: ‘To the best of our professional understanding ...
Since the US’ announcement of its plan to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, much of the analysis and media talk has become obsessed with drawing the picture of Afghanistan in the post-withdrawal period. Although it may be tempting to speculate ...
