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The world economy has shifted East and its most important body has doubtless become the G20 The ‘One Belt, One Road’ (OBOR) Forum in Beijing (14-15 May) was attended by high-level representatives of 57 countries; among them, the Presidents of Russia, Turkey, Indonesia, Argentina, the Philippines, Vietnam; the Prime Ministers of Pakistan,...
Moscow looks forward to detailed discussions of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement at the G20 summit in Turkey's Antalya on Nov. 15-16 and hopes to see the text of the deal, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told TASS on Monday. "The undermining of the WTO [World Trade Organization] is the source of serious worries for us,...
... Cooperation between relevant security agencies of the two countries could be expanded in order to combat crime, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, and human trafficking. At the global level, there are various opportunities for cooperation within the G20 framework. Russia and Turkey are founding members of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC): they are the largest coastal countries and the nature of their relationship determines in many respects the situation in the Caspian-Black ...
On February 10-11, 2015, RIAC Deputy Program Director Timur Makhmutov and Program Manager Lyudmila Fililppova visited Istanbul to participate in a conference on proposals of key think tanks for G-20 currently presided by Turkey. The event was sponsored by Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey and Centre for International Governance Innovation , with attendance reaching one hundred experts and think tankers from twenty countries. Dr. Makhmutov delivered a report on cooperation of think...
Relations between Russia and the United States, as well as between Russia and US-oriented European countries, further deteriorated following the G-20 summit in Brisbane due to the crisis in Ukraine. This poses the question for analysts as to how this situation might affect Moscow’s Middle East policy and the existing forms of cooperation with the West on regional issues, namely: the Middle East quartet of international mediators; the negotiations of the five permanent members of the UN Security...
... geopolitical disagreements between the main players in global politics – these factors are making it difficult to build contacts and strengthen links between countries and organisations. The economy has become a hostage to political decisions. Will the G20 member countries manage to make a sober assessment of the economic prospects?Will they be able to work out a united approach to addressing the issues that have emerged, or will they be reluctant to compromise? We asked three experts to comment on ...
... Western powers have been reluctant to enlarge the international decision making circles, including the World Bank and the IMF. However, when the global financial meltdown prevailed in 2008, the West was quick to initiate a new G-20 forum. The naissance of G20 was driven by a political imperative: to maintain the competitiveness of Western firms, the West needed to make sure that all major economies would adopt the same global regulations.[5] In the same vein, recent American pressure on the EU to adopt ...
Interviews with Andrei Kortunov, Victoria Panova and Mark Rakhmangulov Interview Andrei Kortunov (RIAC Director General), Victoria Panova (MGIMO University) and Mark Rakhmangulo v (Higher School of Economics) comment on Twenty Summit and the 2013 G20 Presidency of Russia. Andrei Kortunov, RIAC Director General Well, obviously, as in other cases with international organizations, we should distinguish between the political effects at two different levels, namely the general political level and the ...
A Group of 20 or a Group with 20 Members? Russia’s year-long presidency of the G20 ends on December 1, 2013, when it is succeeded by Australia, and the main event showcasing the work done by Russia, is around the corner: September 5-6 in St. Petersburg. While interactions within the G20 “club” never stop and continue ...
... in recent years. In short, the onset of the global economic downturn demolished the economic hegemony of advanced countries. The crisis proved that G8 was no longer an effective forum of global policy coordination and it is increasingly replaced by G20. Despite the ongoing redistribution of power, however, emerging countries particularly Russia and China are often portrayed as a threat to the existing regimes of global governance, both in political and economic terms.[3] Photo: Anton Knoff Photo ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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