Международная безопасность

A book focuses on Russia’s efforts to resolve the ethnopolitical conflict in Transcaucasia the hat grown into a real war, especially at the most difficult stage of active and fierce hostilities, right up to the conclusion of a ceasefire agreement, in effect since 12 May 1994. The author, Vladimir Kazimirov, who was the head of Russia’s mediatory mission, Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian President for Political Settlement of the Conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh (1992-1996), reveals the content of the mediator’s very complicated work with the conflicting parties, full of all kinds of vicissitudes, offering characterisations of the participants in that process and an assessment of their positions.

Authors Greg Austin, professorial fellow at EWI, and Sandro Gaycken, senior researcher in computer science at the Free University of Berlin, outline specific steps to be taken to protect Internet infrastructures around the globe. Resetting the System offers bold recommendations, but admits that the necessary changes are expensive and the traditionally free, mostly unregulated market may balk at some of them. Governments can create the incentives for this new approach to cybersecurity, but the private sector will need to take the lead in implementing them.

The 2015 Earth Security Index provides a strategic analysis of sustainability risks for resources that are of geo-political significance. The report offers a data driven dashboard for multi-national companies, governments and civil society to navigate a complex web of resource risks. It also provides seven strategic blueprints that translate complexity into specific actions, aimed at strengthening cross border cooperation and building resilience. For key commodities, from oil and gas to rice and cocoa, the report’s conclusions demonstrate the need for the risk analyses that are routinely conducted by governments and companies to develop a more integrated view of sustainability pressures. The report’s blueprints highlight win-win opportunities for innovation in sustainable technologies, infrastructures, business models and policies. These solutions can help companies and governments build resilience to the political and economic risks associated with resource pressures.

Материалы международной научной конференции «К дорожной карте мира и развития в Северо-восточной Азии: от конфликта к диалогу на Корейском полуострове», которая состоялась 30 мая 2014 г. во Владивостоке. В конференции, организованной Федерацией за всеобщий мир (Universal Peace Federation), Институтом истории, археологии и этнографии ДВО РАН и ИДВ РАН, приняли участие более 100 экспертов из России, США, Республики Корея, Китая и Японии для обсуждения вопросов безопасности и сотрудничества в Северо-Восточной Азии и ситуации на Корейском полуострове. Конференция прошла в рамках «Мирной инициативы в Северо-Восточной Азии». В ходе этой инициативы за последние годы состоялся ряд конференций по миру и безопасности в Северо-Восточной Азии в Вашингтоне, Токио, Сеуле и Москве.

War and Nationalism presents thorough up-to-date scholarship on the often misunderstood and neglected Balkan Wars of 1912 to 1913, which contributed to the outbreak of World War I. The essays contain critical inquiries into the perse and interconnected processes of social, economic, and political exchange that escalated into conflict. The wars represented a pivotal moment that had a long-lasting impact on the regional state system and fundamentally transformed the beleaguered Ottoman Empire in the process. This interdisciplinary volume stands as a critique of the standard discourse regarding the Balkan Wars and effectively questions many of the assumptions of prevailing modern nation-state histories, which have long privileged the ethno-religious dimensions present in the Balkans. The authors go to great lengths in demonstrating the fluidity of social, geographical, and cultural boundaries before 1912 and call into question the “nationalist watershed” notion that was artificially imposed by manipulative historiography and political machinations following the end of fighting in 1913.

В книге рассказывается о сложных коллизиях международной политики, возникших вокруг борьбы за установление контроля над стратегически важным сирийским городом Алеппо во второй половине 2016 года. Речь идёт о попытках решить «алеппскую проблему» путём консультаций между Россией и США и о причинах, по которым это сделать не удалось. Автор также уделяет внимание усилиям по урегулированию «алеппского вопроса» в рамках так называемой «узкой группы» заинтересованных государств (Россия, США, Иран, Катар, Саудовская Аравия, Турция).