Medvedev’s Initiative: A Trap for Europe
Medvedev’s Initiative: A Trap for Europe

Author(s): Yuri E. Fedorov
Subject(s): Security and defense, Military policy
Published by: AMO – Asociace pro mezinárodní otázky
Keywords: OSCE; Corfu process; Dmitry Medvedev; security architecture in Europe; NATO;
Summary/Abstract: For their part a number of leading European figures hope that debates on European security as such will help to improve trust between Russia and the West and thus engage Moscow in a cooperative relationship. On the other side of Atlantic a number of influential American politicians and analysts close to the current administration support the Russian idea seeing it as an element of a wider “reset” of Russia-US relations even at the expense of ‘subsuming of NATO into a larger structure’. This poses a few questions. What are the genuine driving forces and goals of Medvedev’s initiative? How it relates to strategic interests of the European countries? To answer those questions it would be important to uncover what in actual fact Russia wants to achieve by promoting a ‘Pan-European security treaty’.

• Details
• Contents