Valdai Club

Alexey Avtonomov

Jon Alterman

Sergey Aleksashenko

Ekaterina Arapova

Maria Al Makahleh (Dubovikova)

Nadezhda Arbatova

Shlomo Avineri

Masahiro Akiyama

Siniša Atlagić

Jon Alterman

United States

Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, Director of Middle East Program at the Center of Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Materials

Geneva Talks: A Long and Winding Road that May Lead to Peace in Syria

Last Wednesday, Syria peace talks in Geneva were suspended just days after they began. Although the peace process is under attack from many sides, Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy for Syria, said the negotiations had not collapsed and he only “decided to bring a temporary pause to the talks”, which would resume on February 25. The Valdai Club’s experts shared their vision of prospects of the Syrian peace settlement.

Once Again on Syrian Crisis Settlement

There are surely many opportunities for US-Russian cooperation in the Middle East, just as there are opportunities for a new rivalry to emerge. While the United States and Russia have closely aligned interests when it comes to terrorist groups, the interests overlap less neatly when it comes to relationships with governments, with energy markets, and with weapons sales.

Converging Positions of Russia and the US on Syria Will Help Settle the Conflict - Experts

Closer collaboration between Russia and the United States is required to settle the crisis in Syria. Both Russia and the United States have a certain influence in the region. The only question is whether the two countries will collaborate or prefer to ignore each other.

Video

Jon Alterman on the Spread of Information in Developing Democracies

22.03.2017