Carnegie Moscow Center
In order for Japan to address the spectrum of regional and global challenges it faces, it must establish national objectives and a trajectory that preserves and reasserts Japanese identity.
July marks the one-year anniversary of the U.S.–Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission, launched by Presidents Obama and Medvedev in their July 2009 summit meeting with the goal of advancing bilateral cooperation on a wide range of issues, including business development and economic relations.
The euro crisis is driven primarily by two elements – problematic sovereign debt in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, and fragile European banks. While ballooning public debt may be the clearest manifestation of the euro crisis, its roots go much deeper.
European and Russian experts discuss the key issues affecting Russia-Europe relations.
Russia not only has some of the world’s largest energy reserves, but also impressive potential for making its economy more energy efficient and competitive. Ending wasteful use of energy resources would bring Russia financial benefits and decrease carbon dioxide emissions.
As a new round of Russian-EU negotiations on visa-free travel begins, the difficult task of improving the process by which citizens of Russia and the CIS obtain Schengen visas remains.
In Russia, the politics of historical interpretation are at the forefront of political discourse, as the authorities and segments of society struggle to use history and national memory to promote certain ideologies.
The rivalry between the two parties in the U.S. Congress today has become so acute that it is effectively freezing productive relations at all levels of power, causing inevitable damage to the country’s security and foreign policy.
The reset represents a substantive change in U.S. foreign policy and U.S.-Russian relations, not just a rhetorical shift. It is an effort to move ahead in search of solutions to vital security concerns.
History is being newly politicized in Russia and in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and history itself is becoming a field of politics, but historians can and should resist manipulation by politicians.