... context of European security covering such issues as the current status and future of European and Euro-Atlantic security institutions, i.e. OSCE, European Union, Council of Europe, etc. through the prism of Ukraine crisis and overall deterioration of the Russia-West relationship.
Among other things, Dr. Ivanov and Dr. Kortunov presented RIAC's policy paper on the future of the OSCE prepared jointly with the German Marshall Fund of the U.S.A. and SIPRI, Sweden.
Dr. Ivanov also met Vice Chair-Designate of the Atlantic Council's Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security Ellen Tauscher to discuss cooperation of the two think tanks in 2015 and in the next years.
On April 9, 2014 RIAC President
Igor Ivanov
, RIAC Director General
Andrey Kortunov
and RIAC Program Manager
Natalia Evtikhevich
visited the headquarters of the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC, to discuss the current status of Russia-U.S. relations in the context of Ukraine crisis.
The U.S. was represented by Brent Scowcroft Center Vice Chairman
Ellen Tauscher
, Atlantic Council President and CEO
Frederick Kempe
, Senior Fellow at the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations ...
The Atlantic Council of the United States issued report "The United States, Russia and Europe: Trilateral Security Dialog in Absence of Strategic Partnership" prepared by Isabelle François, the Council's senior fellow.
The publication was preceded by two working meetings of experts in Brussels and Moscow with participation ...
Joint Statement by Ellen Tauscher and Igor Ivanov as Co-Chairs of a Joint Steering Group of the Atlantic Council and the Russian International Affairs Council on Mutually Assured Stability.
Washington, 8 April 2013
The Atlantic Council and the Russian International Affairs Council today launched a new initiative to help reframe US-Russia relations and get past the Cold ...
... papers on possible ways to shift from mutually guaranteed destruction to mutually guaranteed stability. The Joint Steering Group agreed to continue cooperation of the two centers on these issues.
Memorandum of Understanding. Cooperation between the Atlantic Council (AC) and the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)
.
... Cold war.
I fully understand how difficult it is. The Cold war mentality turned out to be very resilient; we can dismantle it only if we are able to combine imagination, expert knowledge and political will. I have to tell you that earlier today the Russian International Affairs Council and the Atlantic Council of the United States have decided to launch an ambitions joint project on elaborating the concept of “mutual assured stability” as an alternative to the present “mutual assured destruction”.
This is not a trivial ...
... of the search for new impetus for the Russian-American relations.
The workshop participants have outlined questions of mutual interest for the parties, defined the Russian and U.S. goals and formulated the agenda for future meetings of RIAC and the Atlantic Council.
During the event, Russian and American experts discussed report “On Qualitative Transformation of Russian-American Relations in the Strategic Area” prepared by the Institute for US and Canadian Studies under the guidance of its Director Academician
Sergey ...
..., and the fight against terrorism and political extremism. They highlighted particularly the nuclear dimension of relations between Moscow and Washington, the issues of nuclear deterrence, and cooperation between Russia and NATO.
The leaders of the Russian International Affairs Council and U.S. Atlantic Council agreed to continue consultations with an eye to cooperating on joint projects.
