2015: A Time of Trouble and a Time of Opportunity

... climate agreements despite a strong environmental movement inside the country. Finally, despite the rise of terrorism and the wars in the Middle East, the general level of violence in the world has continued to decrease (if one counts the number of violent ... ... years in the history of Russian foreign policy. In early 2014, Russia decided to put an end to its latent confrontation with the West, which had become obvious in the previous year, and hit first, thereby bringing this confrontation into the open. This ...