Belarus has been systematically working on acceding the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) for several years and is expecting to become its member in 2024. The State takes an active part in all main activities of the organization: political and diplomatic, trade and economic, cultu...
Belarus will be the first fully European state to become a full member of the SCO. This came to attention of Yuri Yarmolinsky, analyst at the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research, during the round table "The uniting potential of the SCO in an emerging multipolar world", which was ...
The annual Raisina Dialogue conference has opened in New Delhi. Statements made at the opening session by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the special guest of the conference, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, indicate New Delhi's aspiration to new regions, primarily in the Medi...
The basic priority of Belarus' adjusted foreign policy is to join the SCO and BRICS, whose creative role in the formation of harmonious and fair international relations is multiplying, which is publicly admitted not only by supporters, but also by opponents. The SCO and BRICS, with thei...
The CSTO summit in Minsk concluded with the signing of the traditional declaration and a number of documents and decisions defining measures for the further development and strengthening of the organization. In addition, the consolidated position of the CSTO on the relevant issues of in...
Minsk hosted a scientific and practical conference "Strategic Analysis and Forecasting. Belarus in the global world". The meeting was organized by the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research (BISR), which, within its competence, actively engaged in the elaboration of initiatives on t...
The analysis of publications of the leading Indian think tanks during and after the G20 summit in New Delhi enables highlighting a number of fundamental aspects and conclusions.
1. Broad participation at the summit of high representatives from Western Asia (Middle East), including the ...
Amid the recent SCO summit, the mass media were filled with enthusiastic reviews including in the light of Belarus receiving the status of a member state of this organization in 2024. Without questioning the importance of this event and its outcome, as well as the importance of the SCO ...
The end-of-July-held discussion [1] with Vladimir Paramonov, head of the Central Eurasia Analytical Center[2] (Uzbekistan) spurred extra interest in Central Asia. The events and processes there are developing dynamically and are of undoubted research interest for the BISR in the context...
In the context of assessing the Great Game rules, special attention should be given to South-East Asia (SEA) or the ASEAN region, which plays an important role in the global economic and political discourse. Recently, there is an increasing number of positive forecasts about prospects f...
A longstanding antipathy towards "forever wars" has led the U.S. President Joe Biden to announce on April 13 the withdrawal of U.S. troop from Afghanistan by September 11 this year, – a symbolic date that matches the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the P...
It is encouraging to see how a science-based approach to predicting events works in practice. One example is the author's theoretical forecast which is a month old, that seems to be starting to take shape.
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