(Global Times) As US aircraft carrier groups gather in the Arabian Sea, a showdown between Iran and the West is rumbling on. If a war erupts, this will be another upshot of the US pursuit of absolute national security. Mainstream forces in Washington are trying to sell a ludicrous standpoint to the American people: that […]
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David C. Gompert and Michael Kofman – Raising Our Sights: Russian-American Strategic Restraint in an Age of Vulnerability
21/02/2012The United States and Russia have sought to reduce the danger of nuclear war by limiting offensive strategic capabilities through negotiated agreements, relying on mutual deterrence based on reciprocal threats and the corresponding fear of retaliation. Although nuclear arsenals have been pared, this is fundamentally the same way the United States and Soviet Union sought […]
Andreas Umland – How to Make Russia Democratic?
14/02/2012Foreign Policy Journal Without a broad coalition, effective pragmatism and collaboration with liberals in the ancien regime, the “White Revolution” will end as miserably as earlier Russian democratization attempts by Andreas Umland February 7, 2012 Russia’s relationship to democracy has been historically closer than some people, both in and outside ofRussia, assume. As early as […]
Lee Jay Walker – Japan Continues to Play the Nationalist Card Against the Russian Federation
6/02/2012
It is sometimes difficult to understand Japan’s stance towards the Russian Federation given the reality that American forces are based in various parts of Japan. Therefore, why is the nationalist card being turned on and off when it suits? The Japanese Foreign Minister, Takeaki Matsumoto, was dismayed after the Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Sergei Ivanov, […]
Alexander Anisimov – Problem of the “Northern Territories” in the Japanese-Russian Relations
31/01/2012Russian-Japanese relations are characterized by their territorial problems, the essence of which is that Japan has insisted on the return of the islands of Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and Habomai, without which it is not going to conclude the peace treaty. In 2011, this problem has worsened. The Ministry of education of Japan allowed for use […]