Is Russia emerging as the new destabilising force on the international scene? It has increasingly shown disdain for fundamental standards and norms in international relations as exemplified by its policy towards Georgia and Ukraine and has developed a new military doctrine which drastically lowers the threshold for use of nuclear weapons.
What is the role of the Russia-dominated Collective Security Treaty Organisation and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation? Are we going to see another ‘Yalta’ type agreement between the great powers dividing the world into separate spheres of influence?