... representatives of U.S. universities in charge of students' exchanges under the auspices of the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) voiced their concern about domestic security in Russia. They said that many American parents, who remember the Cold War, and who continue to be influenced by that mentality, are reluctant to allow their children to travel to Russia because of the current international issues as they are concerned about safety. The CIEE imposes strict security requirements for ...
The threat of nuclear war between Russia and the West, long relegated to Cold War history, reappeared last year as the crisis in East-West relations escalated.
Russian strategic bombers now fly long-range patrols near the coast of the US and its NATO allies, while Russian missile tests and military exercises involving simulated ...
... hard for the United States’ government to understand and which seem to have an effect on Russian foreign policy. There are multiple other factors, of course, but those are the three main ones that I see in deterioration of relations.
Is it a new Cold War?
It’s not possible to call this a new Cold War from the American side because, as I said, there’s been a reduction in the place of Russia in American foreign policy. This is not the Soviet Union, this is not a global competition; ...
Keep Calm. Close Encounters Will Be Frequent
One of the main pieces of international news in recent days has been the cool meeting between the Russian interceptor and US reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic. This quite ordinary episode for today’s “cold world” has been quite the focus in the domestic media. Let us try to get to the bottom of this matter, first taking a look at what happened.
On the morning of April 7, 2015 an RC-135U on temporary deployment from its home base...
... that has peaked with the Ukraine crisis has led to both sides testing each other’s defence capabilities, seemingly ready to coexist in a paradigm of deterrence, discussing whether the current state of affairs represents a new configuration of the Cold War and the chances of it turning “hot”.
As a result of these developments, the decisions adopted at the September 2014 NATO Summit in Wales served as a response of sorts to the so-called “Russian challenge”, although the ...
... broader in scope.
The events in Ukraine and the sharp deterioration in our relations are just a symptom of a deeper malaise. Nor is it the first or the only. The reasons are more profound
, and their consequences could be catastrophic.
At the end of the Cold War, the United States was presented with a unique opportunity to lead the international community. Ideally, it was about America’s role as first among equals in the new multipolar world. Leading by example, not force. Such leadership implied ...
Over the past year politics seems to have returned to the past. But it is not clear whether it is a comeback to the Cold War time with its ideological intransigence, or the 19th century when some kindled the flames of revolutions and others sought to quench them, or to the time when people struggled not for national interests but for the triumph of true faith.
It is ...
Instead of a new Cold War, someday we could face a real, large-scale military conflict
Since the crisis in Ukraine began, many have claimed that a new Cold War between Russia and the West already exists. This rhetoric, used even by high-profile politicians, in my opinion,...
A real cold war is still far away but the sides are working hard to make it happen
As it comes to a close, the year 2014 has seen relations between Russia and the collective West reach an emotional level if not seen during the time of the Cold War, then certainly ...
... military encounters between Russian and West in 2014 after the onset of the Ukrainian crisis. The RIAC team asked Dr. Ian Kearns, ELN Director, to shed some light on the methodology and tools used to create the report. Some questions on the period of the Cold War and the future of Russian-Western military coexistence also arose.
The first question is about the methodology of your research. What were your principles for monitoring, gathering and processing the data?
We based the report on open sources....
