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101971
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The present issue of the journal is devoted to Russia's cooperation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Established in 1967, ASEAN has become one of the most authoritative and influential regional organizations. The experience of its development has confirmed that countries with different levels of socio-economic development, different political systems and histories can constructively interact, realizing the "unity in diversity" concept in practice. ASEAN's effective dialogue partnership with individual states and international structures helps expand cooperation and ensure security in the Asia Pacific region on the practical level.
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102022
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FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS following the "Rolling Stones" interview by Gen. McChrystal and President Obama's decision to replace him with Gen. Petraeus there has been a great deal of attention paid to the current situation in Afghanistan and what the change in command will portend for the strategy that Gen McChrystal had devised to achieve President Obama's goal of disrupting, dismantling and defeating the Al-Qaeda network and ensuring that Afghanistan did not again become a safe haven for terrorists intent on attacking the United States and its allies. By and large, the comments have welcomed the Petraeus appointment as the best option available but they also suggest whatever Gen. McChrystal's faults the military at least had unity of command while the U.S. civilian team was not working together smoothly, that little progress had been made in improving the quality of governance in Afghanistan and therefore that the United States is losing the war in Afghanistan. More and more these reports and commentaries suggest that the American will to continue in Afghanistan is wilting partly because public opinion is no longer willing to support it and partly because the leaders too believe that this has become an unwinnable war.
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101997
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FROM THE VERY FIRST DAYS of its history, ASEAN as a large regional structure, its specifics and prospects as well as its relations with the great powers, the Soviet Union/Russia including, remained in the focus of attention of Russian science. Such prominent scholars as N. Maletin, A. Rogozhin and G. Chufrin have been following the Association's evolution since its inception. All of them have commendable academic achievements on their record, yet I am convinced that Professor of Moscow State Institute (University) of International Relations Nikolai Maletin deserves special mention. For over 10 years now, he has been editing annual collections of articles on the most topical problems and developments in Southeast Asia issued by the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS. In 2004, he marked the 40th anniversary of ASEAN with a highly informative monograph. Recently, he, together with two colleagues, edited a book written by experts of the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences.
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101989
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2010.
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WHAT DEFINITION would best reveal the nature of relationships existing today between the national economies in the ASEAN area? To our mind, it would be best to refer to regional economic cooperation between Southeast Asian countries and acknowledge its growing intensity and attractiveness for the participants.
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101999
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THE PUBLICATION of the book "Bol'shya Vostochnaya Aziya": Mirovaya politika i regional'nye transformatsii. Nauchno-obravovate'nyi kompleks ("Greater East Asia": International Politics and Regional Transformations. Research and Education Handbook. Ed. by A.D. Voskresensky. Moscow, Moscow State Institute (University) of International Relations, 2010, 444 pages) on Greater East Asia (GEA) and the numerous changes taking place in this macroregion is a notable event in Russian political science. The professors and lecturers at the Moscow State Institute (University) of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation that participated in this collective work called it a "research and education handbook." The book therefore aims to combine strict academic approaches and criteria with new ideas and readability. One should say at once that the book has largely attained its goal - so much so that not just students and experts will find it interesting to read.
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102006
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2010.
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THE UN'S BLUE BERETS have become a permanent feature of world politics in the past few decades. No matter where interstate or internal conflicts flare up in the world, the UN duly sends international military contingents and observers, as well as police officers and civilian personnel, to these hot spots to halt the hostilities and restore stability. This activity has essentially been the visible embodiment of the UN's global role, its business card, for more than 60 years now.
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102016
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2010.
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THROUGHOUT ITS HISTORY, Russia has been geopolitically and geostrategically bound to Central Asia. Our ancestors understood this very well and regarded the Asian underbelly as the Russian Empire's buffer in the southeast. During Soviet times, this region turned from an important entity of foreign political interests into an integral part of the superpower.
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101992
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IN JANUARY 1979, life in Cambodia started a slow return to normalcy in the new state - the People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK). Under the impact of the 150-thousand-strong Vietnamese army, the Khmer Rouge tyranny collapsed. The world community, however, with few exceptions (the Soviet Union and the other socialist countries), which had condemned the Pol Pot regime, refused to recognize the PRK. The "humanitarian intervention" concept was still many years away: an indignant chorus demanded an immediate end to Vietnamese "occupation.''
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101977
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2010.
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ON THE WHOLE, ASEAN has succeeded on all platforms for multi-sided dialogue (both outside and inside its region). Indeed, it is the heart and soul of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM); the Association is in the "driver's seat" (to borrow the term from negotiators and analysts) in these structures, at the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in the ASEAN + 3 format and at the East Asia Summit (EAS). This means that the Association is responsible for the "route" and the "rules" while the partners, many of which carry more economic and political weight, merely accept them.
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102018
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THE SMOKE OF BURNING PEAT BOGS and forests and the losses they caused detracted us for a while from the far from comforting picture of planetary dimensions. Here is the frightening statistics of the year 2010 when big and small catastrophes shook the world: erupting volcanoes grounded aircrafts all over Europe; earthquakes hit many countries; the record-hot summer caused drought in Russia while Europe was nearly inundated. This suggests a logical question: what next? Indeed, to be prepared we should know what is in store for us. The answer is simple: anything might happen.
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102026
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AGAINST THE BACKGROUND of the global economic crisis, which has plunged the developed countries into a depression, we are witnessing the emergence of new centers of the world economy: China, Brazil and India. With the formation of a new technological order, they are emerging on the back of another long wave of economic growth. The world financial system is turning into a multi-currency one, and unipolar globalization is giving way to the creation of large regional economic unions. In the wake of the European Union, a huge ASEAN Free Trade Area is forming in Southeast Asia, the MERCOSUR Customs Union in South America, and NAFTA in North America. One of these integration arrangements in the Eurasian space is the Customs Union of the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation.
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102028
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2010.
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THE WARTIME CORRESPONDENCE between Churchill and Stalin is a well-known and well-studied source on the history of Allied diplomacy. Little is known, however, how these famous messages were written. In my recent article in Russia in Global AffairsI looked at the Soviet angle 1 ; yet even the best Soviet/Russian and foreign specialists on the Soviet-British relations and Churchill have so far passed over in silence much of what was going on behind the scenes in Britain. The specifics of British diplomacy and the Cabinet system of governance, meanwhile, make the British side of the Stalin-Roosevelt-Churchill epistolary triangle especially important.
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101984
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2010.
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MY FIRST MEETING with Indonesia took place in the Balkans on Nov. 15, 1995 when the commander of UNPROFOR (United Nations Protection Force in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s). General Bernard Janvier (France) introduced to members of the Headquarters of UN Military Observers in the former Yugoslavia a new head of the Mission of Military Observers, Brigadier General Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) from Indonesia.
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102024
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2010.
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RUSSIA'S POSITION with regard to international justice in general and international courts in particular is important both for diplomatic practice and theory. It is essential to understand the prospects of just decisions being made by international courts on cases to which Russia is a party or in which it has a special interest. Topical issues of international justice became a subject of discussion at a roundtable meeting hosted by the Center of International Law and International Security at the Institute for Contemporary International Studies (ICIS), Diplomatic Academy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
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101995
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2010.
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AT THE BEGINNING OF 2003, I was lucky enough to prepare and open an exhibition of paintings called "The Russian Collection" at the National Gallery of Indonesia in Jakarta. It was timed to President of the Indonesian Republic Mrs. Megawati Sukarnoputri's visit to Russia.
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101990
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2010.
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UNTIL THE MID-1970S, Southeast Asia had very little in common with the region in which ASEAN came into being. With the end of the war in Indochina America dramatically cut down its military presence in the region; Vietnam was moving toward unification while Laos and Cambodia acquired left regimes.
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101974
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2010.
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THE SECOND RUSSIA-ASEAN SUMMIT caused mixed feelings in Moscow and the capitals of the Ten. The relations are going ahead yet so far the Russian Federation and the ASEAN countries find it much more profitable to cooperate with third countries. In the most promising areas, however, the number of those wishing to go further is steadily increasing; the ranks of experts who closely follow the developments, identify new boundaries and explain why we need new partners and why they need us are swelling. Opinions clash and discussions go beyond the expert community to reach the public, TV viewers and Internet users. Relations with China (Russia's closest neighbor in the north and ASEAN's closest neighbor in the south), for example, have become an object of public interest both in Russia and in some of the ASEAN countries.
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102025
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2010.
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SINCE THE COLLAPSE of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian-Russian relations have never been trouble free. After 1991, the Russian leadership headed by Boris Yeltsin assumed that sooner or later Ukraine would divide into several states.1 Whereby, until around mid-1993, the Russian establishment was more concerned with resolving Russia's domestic problems, while its foreign policy focused on relations with the U.S. and Western Europe. Harmonizing relations with the states that emerged in the Soviet Union's place was not a primary issue at first.
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102030
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2010.
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YURI DUBININ, AMBASSADOR Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, who occupies a special and elite place in the cohort of outstanding Russian diplomats, is celebrating his 80th birthday on Smolenskaya Square in Moscow, in the imposing building that houses the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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102013
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2010.
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THREE YEARS out of five at the helm is not enough to sum up yet three years of Nicolas Sarkozy have stirred up the public and the analytical community enough to justify a summary. Why?
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