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RD Interview On the sidelines of a recent Moscow think tank debate, “ Hypocrisy vs. Diplomacy: How Insincerity Undermined the World Order After the Cold War ,” Russia Direct sat down with Andrei Kortunov, general director of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), to figure out how Russia and the West can get past accusing each other of engaging in double standards ...
On December 10, London School of Economics under the auspices of Dahrendorf Forum held an international seminar "Quo Vadis Global actors? US, EU, Russia between Liberal Order and Neorealism". The seminar was attended by experts in theory of international relations from Great Britain, other European countries and the United States. Russia was represented by Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Sergey Utkin, RIAC expert, Head of "Foreign policy and Security" Department...
On December 5 Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Institute of socio-economic and political researches (ISEPR Foundation), Centre for Liberal Strategies (Sofia) with the support of National Research University Higher School of Economics held an International Conference «Hypocrisy vs Democracy: Insincerity Destroying the Global Order after the Cold War». About forty experts, journalists and diplomats from Russia, the USA, Bulgaria, Greece, the UK, and Turkey took part in the conference...
Hominum causa omne jus constitutum est. “(Every) law has been created for the sake of men.” In his extremely interesting and thought-provoking article, Andrey Kortunov identifies the three main components of the “liberal world order”: rationality, normativity and openness. While in my opinion, not a single manifestation of human activity, especially one as complicated and intricate as international relations, can be reduced to one or two ‘overarching theories,...
“ The Hacked World Order ” by Adam Segal, director of the program on digital and cyberspace policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, was published in the early 2016 and is one of the latest attempts to cover all the events in the cyber domain. This is an ...
On September 30, 2016 Salvatore Babones , Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Sydney, delivered at RIAC a lecture on the new world order led by the United States. He noted that in the second millennium, the entire population of the world is divided into “the American world,” those who oppose it, and those who want to be part of it. Even representatives of the Russian,...
A crisis of liberalism does not equal a crisis of the liberal world order Reality has a well-known liberal bias. Stephen Colbert Any discussion of Russian foreign policy that has even a modicum of meaning inevitably begins with a question about the conditions and trends in the world as a whole. Our understanding ...
... Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, as well as Alexander Gabuev, Chair of Russia in the Asia-Pacific Program at Carnegie Moscow Center and RIAC expert, took part in an expert discussion “Great Powers, Great Challenges: the Evolving World Order.” Pavel Koshkin " Russia, China and the US need to work together in 2016 "
... made and possible steps that can be taken in future. The “Age of Politics” 2015 was a year of rapidly unfolding multi-polarity. Multi-polarity has long been the mantra of foreign policy documents and speeches. The idea is that a multi-polar world order is inherently more just and democratic. It is often viewed as an alternative to the unipolar world led by the United States. But multi-polarity is flawed as well. If the potential of the various players is asymmetrical, and the “rules ...
... the more relevant. Speaking at the Valdai Discussion Club, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin elaborated on his vision of settling the Syrian crisis. And this vision appears to reflect Russia’s overall approach to creating a new world order. It has to be said that against the backdrop of the numerous declarative, ambiguous and at times contradictory statements that our Western partners have made with regard to Syria, Vladimir Putin’s words were to-the-point, logical and ...
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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