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...
Following the topic of the Quadrilateral security dialogue (Quad) between the US, India, Australia and Japan highlighted in the article статье, I drew attention to the article "A Quad-plus-6 Indo-Pacific strategy" by my Indian colleague Namrata Hasija, a research fellow at the Centre fo...
From the first days of taking office, US President Joe Biden has been actively demonstrating that his policy will be radically different from Trump's, including in such an important area as national security.
The existing US National Security Strategy was adopted in December 2017 and f...
The US President's Inauguration is the Final Act of the Political Cycle in the Country and the World
For the first time in the U.S. history the election of the Head of State questioned the stability of democratic institutions in the country. Unprecedented security measures make this once-commemorative show disquieting and unsaid.
At the same time, domestic events are bringing the Unit...
