Arquivos de 22 jun 2025

Former U.S. NATO ambassador Ivo Daalder argues that the scramble to shore up Europe's conventional defense risks overlooking the continent's greatest security weakness: nuclear deterrence. Europe knows it can't fully trust Washington's guarantee anymore. But he lays out a middle path between dependence and nuclearization that would extend France's and the United Kingdom's nuclear umbrella—a […]

Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Richard Fontaine, former members of the National Security Council, argue that the members of what they call the “axis of upheaval”—Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea—are deepening their cooperation. Meanwhile, Washington is creating friction with many of its own partnerships. If these developments continue unabated, the United States will squander the strength […]

The battle on the streets over the foundations of the state.

On 23 October at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club’s Moscow venue will host a discussion entitled “Russia and Africa: In It for the Long Haul?”

The political echo of the Israeli economic miracle has been the ceaseless creation of start-up-like parties (party-genesis) that receive high-risk campaign funding from the state. Besides illustrating how the idea of serial entrepreneurship has seeped into new spheres, the situation shows that the root of the country’s unending domestic crisis lies not in particular individuals […]

By 2027, the Korean Peninsula had ceased to be an isolated regional story. The nuclear problem has not gone away—it has grown bigger than the Korean Peninsula itself, writes Roman Kalinin, Research Fellow at PIR Center.