UBS Briefing in Wolfsberg
"Russia's Foreign Policy Priorities and Challenges: Lessons for Europe"
Dr. Vladimir Orlov, President of PIR Center, Moscow, Russia
Thursday, 22 April 2010, 04.30 to 06.30 pm
| Russia's newly-strong economy, though affected by the global financial crisis, allows it to take a more assertive role in international affairs and to attack the concept of American unipolarity. New strategic partnerships, like Shanghai Cooperation Organization or BRIC, have been designed. Russia remains an important global and regional actor in the Middle East and in the Asia/Pacific, keen to have a voice and, if possible, a veto in all issues of global strategic significance. Though Europe is President Medvedev's number one foreign policy priority, his attempts to promote reform of European security architecture have so far mostly failed. What does all this mean? What is really driving Russia's foreign relations? What are the options and possibilities for the immediate future not only for Russia and Europe but also for the world? | ||
 | Dr. Vladimir Orlov obtained his doctoral degree in political science at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO) in 1997. He is the President of the Moscow-based PIR Center (The Russian Center for Policy Studies), which he had founded in 1994. Dr. Orlov served as a U.N. consultant on disarmament and nonproliferation education. In 2004 he became a professor at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), and in 2005 he was named Co-Director of the GCSP European Training Course in Security Policy. Since 2008 he has been concentrating on the development of the 'Centre russe d'études politiques' – PIR Center's European branch, located in Geneva. He is the chairman of the Trialogue Club International, a member of the public board at the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, and editor-in-chief of the Russian journal on international security, Security Index. | |
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