On October 19–20, 2022, the Geneva Center for Politics and Security (GCSP), Russian PIR Center, and U.S. Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey (CNS/MIIS) hosted the international conference "Sixty Years of the Cuban Missile Crisis: Lessons for the 21st Century"
On October 19–20, 2022, the Geneva Center for Politics and Security (GCSP), Russian PIR Center, and U.S. Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey (CNS/MIIS) hosted the international conference "Sixty Years of the Cuban Missile Crisis: Lessons for the 21st Century".
The conference focused on the underlying and ...
For both sides, the stakes in the current crisis are higher than they were 60 years ago
Today, it’s come to be trendy to draw parallels between the current state of U.S.-Russian relations and the famous Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. All the more so, because we are on the cusp of the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Crisis: the decision taken by the John F. Kennedy administration to impose a blockade on Cuba was made at the White House in the evening of ...
Summary of talking points
There are quite a few things in common, as well as differences between the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962 and the present crisis between Russia and the West.
Aleksey Arbatov:
The Ukrainian Crisis and Strategic Stability
Now it is a crisis engineered by the US at Russia’s doorstep with Moscow holding the advantage of the scene close to its territory. So, now is Russia’s turn to go ...
