Another double violation of Belarusian airspace by a Polish military helicopter on September 28 raises the question of the true goals of the incident. Although the balanced and cold-blooded response of the Belarusian leadership has nullified the escalation potential, there is a clear ca...
The interest of many countries in BRICS speaks in favor of the fact that partners who understand the importance of platforms with already established interaction practices are gathering under its wing.
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This is the name of one of the richest countries in the world — Qatar. Until the middle of the last century, its inhabitants were engaged in pearl diving and fishing. The discovery of oil and gas fields allowed the "country of sands" to raise living standards and become one of the top t...
During the first after the twentieth CPC Congress meeting with Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party, Xi Jinping said that the countries faced "a very difficult international situation, serious risks and challenges." China and Vietnam have agreed to unite...
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...
Almost simultaneously, two neighboring states in South Asia - Pakistan (August 14) and India (August 15) – will celebrate the 75th anniversary of their independence the other day.
These states emerged in mid-August 1947 according to the plan of the Viceroy of British India, Lord Louis ...
The joint statement of the President and Prime Minister of Finland on the country's intention to join NATO, made on May 12, is only the first and far from the main step towards official membership in the alliance. At the same time, a rather fragile ground – public opinion capable of cha...
This September marked one year of Kazakhstan's presidency in the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia – (CICA), an international forum for enhancing confidence among Asian countries and concerted search for solutions to regional security issues. In addition...
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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Amid geopolitical and pandemic turbulence, there is a clear rising trend of regionalization which can be regarded as a form of a new multi-vector approach. In the first approximation, such format can be described as an informal "club of interests" when global (regional) actors form a co...