Washington consensus 2.0 / China–India Axis / Multipolar balance of power / New bipolarity
A few months ago, the author wrote an
article
for the RIAC website on possible variants of the new international architecture on the European continent that might take shape over the next few years. Arguing that European politics will turn towards Moscow–Brussels relations, the article attempted to construct several scenarios for Europe’s future depending on the possible development trajectories of Russia...
... pushing Moscow towards strategic isolationism and a new arms race.
There is nothing arbitrary about the timing of the decision to apply greater pressure on Russia, as it is intended to last for decades to come. After all, the foundations of the future world order are being laid today; the new models of global politics and economics are being tested; and the rules of the game are being developed and coordinated for the foreseeable future, up to the second half of the 21st century. The fewer strong participants ...
Liberal slogans promoting freedom and progress have turned into a powerful tool of soft power determining America’s moral leadership
In 1918, President of the United States Woodrow Wilson presented a draft peace treaty to Congress aimed at putting an end to four years of bloodshed caused by the First World War. The document differed from the spirit and principles of the peace accords concluded in the history of international relations. Previous peace agreements would normally enumerate the conditions...
... American challenge was addressed both to the traditional diplomacy of the great European powers and, albeit to a lesser degree, to Lenin’s revolutionary foreign policy doctrine of the Decree on Peace. The rise and fall of Wilsonianism and the liberal world order was thus associated with the rise and fall of American hegemony. This also determines the attitude to the future of the liberal world order: the post-American world should by definition be a post-liberal and post-Wilsonian world.
Let us have ...
... fact that both these entities are closely related does not, of course, mean that we should pursue a policy based on the lowest common denominator. Bilateral relations with individual countries also hold great potential.
Second, rapid changes in the world order make it extremely difficult to isolate Russia globally. This circumstance must be put to good use, and much is being done already. However, here, too, there are two extremes. First, we view Asia as a partner of secondary importance – an ...
... topic of my presentation was “What Will There Be after the ‘Liberal Global Order?’” I think this should be interesting for the public at large as well. So let me begin with the obvious.
Russia has been accused of destroying the post-war liberal world order. This is fundamentally wrong in many respects. There were two world orders after the war. One was liberal-democratic and capitalist, led by the United States. The other one was socialist, led by the Soviet Union. Russia led the way in destroying ...
On October 31, Carnegie Moscow Center hosted a public discussion of directions in Russia’s foreign policy following the upcoming presidential elections in March 2018 and its impact on the international order.
On October 31, Carnegie Moscow Center hosted a public discussion of directions in Russia’s foreign policy following the upcoming presidential elections in March 2018 and its impact on the international order.
Russia will be the last of several major powers that are entering the new political...
On October 26 Aspen Institute in Berlin, Germany, hosted an international conference «The World in 2025 – Germany’s Role and Partners in a Shifting World Order».
On October 26
Aspen Institute
in Berlin, Germany, hosted an international conference «The World in 2025 – Germany’s Role and Partners in a Shifting World Order».
The conference focused on the evolution of the modern international ...
On October 18, 2017, the fourth session of the XIV Valdai Discussion Club took place focusing on the issues of universalism and self-identity. The participants discussed globalization processes that started after the end of the Cold War, and the reaction towards them in the form of activation of identity politics and determination to strengthen the unique self-identification.
On October 18, 2017, the fourth session of the
XIV Valdai Discussion Club
took place focusing on the issues of universalism...
... be blended and there will not be such a state in the whole world that one body is white, another yellow, and the third is black-skinned ... All will be nicely slightly dark-complexioned and look the same").
Ivan Timofev:
RIAC Working Paper “World Order Or World Anarchy? A Look at the Modern System of International Relations”
Such universalism, if realized, would result in a sharp decline of the complexity of the global society as a whole and the international system in particular. Reducing ...
