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Great Gains or Great Game?: Global Engagement across Central Asia
Alexander Cooley in his book, Great Games Local Rules, describes a new great game where the post-soviet states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and...
The Maturation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: An Emerging IO of Significance
Dr. Matthew Crosston & Anonymous (*) The United States has long been the dominant economic-security structure in the world. It steps in to negotiate...
New Grounds for War: How the Power of Siberia Pipeline Impacts the Arctic
The Power of Siberia pipeline, a joint Russian and Chinese venture in which Russia has agreed to provide $400 billion of natural gas (LNG)...
Calling Out ‘Bluff Diplomacy’: Russo-Persian Maneuvers to Outwit Obama
According to the Obama administration, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a deal struck with the Islamic Republic of Iran over its nuclear...
Russia, Zimbabwe And Investment Opportunities
Over the years, Russia and Zimbabwe have maintained strong cordial relations in all significant spheres and the prospects of broadening cooperation are very bright....
The New Arctic Governance
Despite many predictions to the contrary, the Arctic has emerged today as a zone of cooperation. At the core of regional stability and security...
Putin, Dugin and the Coming Wild Ride on Leviathan
It does not strain the imagination to snare drum tautness to imagine Vladimir Putin, bare chested in his best rodeo persona, bronco-busting Leviathan. However,...
The Russian Federation’s geopolitics
In a now famous speech delivered at the Conference on Security, held in Munich in 2007, Vladimir Putin harshly clarified the structural determinants of...
Growing militarization in Arctic amid increasing disputes
With the rapid melting of ice in the Arctic region, the long-isolated region is becoming a more accessible zone for commercial fishing, fresh water,...
Millennial Summit: Pope Francis’ meeting with Patriarch Kirill
Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, and Patriarch Kirill, Moscow’s and Russia’s Orthodox Patriarch, met in the VIP room of the Havana...