The extraordinarily troublesome year 2020 tested many international institutions and bilateral ties, but few experienced sharper challenges than the complex relations between Russia and Turkey, which have a strong impact on crisis developments in Europe’s immediate neighborhood.

Russian Foreign Policy and Security

The Foreign Policy and Security research axis whithin Ifri's Russia / NIS Center of research analyses the relations of Russia and the New Independent States with the rest of the world, with a special focus on security issues.
Director of Ifri's Russia-NIS Center
...Associate Research Fellow, Russia / NIS Center
...Research Fellow, Russia / NIS Center
...Project Officer, Russia/NIS Center
Associate Research Fellow, Russia/NIS Center
...Associate Research Fellow, Russia/NIS Center
...Associate Research Fellow, Russia/NIS Center
...Associate Fellow, Russia/NIS Center and Geopolitics of Technologies Program
...This paper argues that Russia’s soft power should be understood as a niche soft power, microtargeting some specific audiences based on four particularisms:
The charge of "fascism" has become a strategic narrative of the current world order.
When analyzing the global state of play around artificial intelligence (AI), Russia so far looks like an “outsider” compared to the two technological leaders, the United States and China.
Since 2014, Russia has notably intensified its policies in Africa, joining the race for local markets and opportunities presented by the rapidly growing and transforming continent.
The coronavirus pandemic has thrown a harsh spotlight on the state of global governance. Faced with the greatest emergency since the Second World War, nations have regressed into narrow self-interest. The concept of a rules-based international order has been stripped of meaning, while...
This article analyses Russia’s relations with Latin America in the first two decades of the 21st century in the light of global political and economic processes.
Russian strategic culture is evolving fast, despite the consolidation of the ruling regime, which is maturing into a more rigid autocracy, whereby its ideological outlook becomes increasingly conservative.
Northeast Asia has emerged as a critical theater of Russian foreign policy in recent years.
...Despite the deterioration of its relations with the West and economic stagnation limiting its room for maneuver, Russia continues to have an ambitious policy for the Arctic region.
The Internet: a new Russian “weapon”? By personal and non-transferable invitation
This event is dedicated to the Russia/NIS Centre Corporate supports. By personal invitation only.
...
Russia and Information Warfare: Aims, Tools and Implications for the West By personal and non-transferable invitation
This event is dedicated to the Russia/NIS Centre Corporate supports. By personal invitation only.
...
Silovik Stockholm Syndrome: Russia's security agencies as drivers, beneficiaries, and victims of Putinism By personal and non-transferable invitation
This event is dedicated to the Russia/NIS Centre Corporate supports. By personal invitation only.
...
International Seminar - Russia 2016: Return of Great Power Strategy? By personal and non-transferable invitation
This event is dedicated to the Russia/NIS Centre Corporate supports. By personal invitation only.
...
Russia’s Foreign Policy: Offensive or Defensive Stance? Closed-Door Seminar - By personal invitation
A closed seminar organized by the Russia/NIS Centre, with Fyodor LUKYANOV, Editor in Chief of the journal "Russia in Global Affairs", Chairman of Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy (Moscow).
Russia’s International Positioning Les Mensuelles Ifri/Entreprises
These luncheon-debates are dedicated to corporate and individual benefactor members. By personal invitation only.
Ukrainian Theatre as a Test for the Russian Military and Geopolitical Ambitions Closed Seminar - By personal and non-transferable invitation
A closed seminar with Pavel BAEV, Research Director and Professor at the Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Oslo, Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, and Associate Research Fellow at Russia-NIS Center at Ifri.
"New Turkey" Economic and geopolitical challenges
During the last eleven years, as its accession process to the European Union did not move much forward, Turkey, under the lead of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, asserted itself as a regional power. It counts today 77 million inhabitants and reports a GDP of 820 billion USD (2013)...
Which international positioning for Russia after Crimea? Les Mensuelles Ifri/Entreprises
A luncheon debate with Thomas GOMART, Vice President for Strategic Development, Ifri.
...RT, dubbed as an "organ of influence and deceitful propaganda" by President Emmanuel Macron in May during a joint news conference with Vladimir Putin, has now launched RT France. Has France become the latest front in Russia's information war?
King Salman received at the Kremlin with his 1,000-strong delegation, including 100 businessmen. King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud's official visit to Moscow is the first visit to Russia for a Saudi head of state. Can this visit be seen as the signal of a shift in the region or is it just...
3 questions to Mark GALEOTTI, Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague, Director of Mayak Intelligence consultancy.
3 questions to Stephen SZABO, Executive Director, Transatlantic Academy.
3 questions to Andrey KORTUNOV, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC).
The weekend meeting between the French and Russian presidents has given France a chance to become "the new Germany" for Russia, which lost its last Western ally after a falling-out with official Berlin, analysts say.
...France's Finance Minister cast doubt Thursday on what Russia had said was the imminent delivery of the first of two Mistral helicopter carriers, feeding uncertainty that French political analysts view as authorities' reluctance to be seen as caving...
"It's clear that we will have to declare ourselves in favour of new sanctions in case of a military escalation," said state secretary for parliamentary relations Jean-Marie Le Guen to French media on Sunday. The junior minister’s comments came as unrest continued to spread...
Since December 2011 there is a real convergence between the perception of President Vladimir Putin and the perception of Russia, especially, in the Western media.
...We should all be able to agree on a fact: despite the growing international indignation toward it, Russia’s position on Syria has remained remarkably consistent throughout the crisis there. By blocking passage of any resolution at the UN Security Council, Russia has gained...