Analysis Of The Lisbon Summit: Seeking A New Stage Of Cooperation
Lisbon Summit: Seeking a New Stage of Cooperation
In November 2010, at a NATO-Russia Council held during the Lisbon Summit, NATO leaders and President Dmitry Medvedev agreed to embark on “a new stage of cooperation towards a true strategic partnership”, based on the goals and principles of the Founding Act and the NATO-Russia Rome Declaration. On this basis Russia agreed to allow countries of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force to transport military goods by air or land across Russia and Central Asia to Afghanistan. In view of both security and political difficulties with the usual transit route across Pakistan, this was a major help to the NATO countries fighting the Taliban and it was agreed to allow NATO to establish …show more content…
Russia’s responses have necessarily been military in nature so as to find a way out of the current crisis in a way consistent with Russia’s national interests. Russia – NATO relations has escalated to a level of a war situation perhaps it could be a beginning of a new cold war. Russia’s “place” is in the very Euro-Atlantic institutions—NATO and the EU—with which it is at the moment in …show more content…
The Middle East is generating instability that is already spreading to other parts of the Muslim world, including Central Asia and areas of the Caucasus. Former Soviet countries of the region that have survived their first twenty-five years of independence exhibit some of the features that helped produce the Arab Spring. In Afghanistan, the Islamic State has built a presence with a view to expanding its influence through the whole country and beyond. Russia, which since 2015 has been directly involved in the war in Syria, may have to fight closer to home, always mindful of the dangers of Islamic State–induced extremism and terrorism in Russia itself.
In the long term, demographics remain one of Russia’s main concerns. The rate of population decline has slowed down, and the incorporation of Crimea has added over 2 million people to Russia’s total, which now stands at 146 million. But there is a growing shortage of workers, strategically important regions such as the Russian Far East remain sparsely populated, and the integration of immigrants from Central Asia presents a
In November 2010, at a NATO-Russia Council held during the Lisbon Summit, NATO leaders and President Dmitry Medvedev agreed to embark on “a new stage of cooperation towards a true strategic partnership”, based on the goals and principles of the Founding Act and the NATO-Russia Rome Declaration. On this basis Russia agreed to allow countries of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force to transport military goods by air or land across Russia and Central Asia to Afghanistan. In view of both security and political difficulties with the usual transit route across Pakistan, this was a major help to the NATO countries fighting the Taliban and it was agreed to allow NATO to establish …show more content…
Russia’s responses have necessarily been military in nature so as to find a way out of the current crisis in a way consistent with Russia’s national interests. Russia – NATO relations has escalated to a level of a war situation perhaps it could be a beginning of a new cold war. Russia’s “place” is in the very Euro-Atlantic institutions—NATO and the EU—with which it is at the moment in …show more content…
The Middle East is generating instability that is already spreading to other parts of the Muslim world, including Central Asia and areas of the Caucasus. Former Soviet countries of the region that have survived their first twenty-five years of independence exhibit some of the features that helped produce the Arab Spring. In Afghanistan, the Islamic State has built a presence with a view to expanding its influence through the whole country and beyond. Russia, which since 2015 has been directly involved in the war in Syria, may have to fight closer to home, always mindful of the dangers of Islamic State–induced extremism and terrorism in Russia itself.
In the long term, demographics remain one of Russia’s main concerns. The rate of population decline has slowed down, and the incorporation of Crimea has added over 2 million people to Russia’s total, which now stands at 146 million. But there is a growing shortage of workers, strategically important regions such as the Russian Far East remain sparsely populated, and the integration of immigrants from Central Asia presents a