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Nordic-Baltic Connectivity with Asia via the Arctic: Assessing Opportunities and Risks

The Arctic is occupying an increasingly important position in connectivity between Asia and the Nordic-Baltic countries. This is not least because climate change opens up new economic opportunities to make use of the region’s vast resources and develop the northern transport routes. Along with possibilities, the need to ensure peaceful, norms-based and environmentally sustainable development in the Artic region poses a complex challenge.

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Military Cooperation Between Russia and China: The Military Alliance Without an Agreement?

Between the 1950s and the end of the 1980s, the Soviet Union and China had border disputes and were vying for leadership of the communist world during the Cold War.

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The Coronavirus Crisis and China

Do not be misled by mask diplomacy.

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The Background to the Iran Crisis: Arabs, Americans, and a “Nuclear Deal”

In many ways, Iran’s politics and isolation are due to its own foreign-policy mistakes

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The Dissenting Opinions of Justice Radhabinod Pal at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal

Conquerors should not pass judgment on the conquered

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Vladivostok Political Scientist: China May Deliver Ultimatums Even to Russia in the Future

China’s military capability is a thorn in the side for Moscow

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Russia’s Pivot to the East: Between China, the US and the Other Asia

Since the announcement of Russia’s “pivot to Asia” in 2012, exemplified in one of prime minister and then-presidential candidate Vladimir Putin’s pre-election articles ¹ and proven by hosting the APEC Summit in Vladivostok later that year ², many events have occurred that influenced the dynamics of Russia’s pivot towards the “new Asia”.