... of land.
This is why the Westphalian system is certainly here to stay. An amazing majority of both Asian and European participants were explicit about this position, not expecting any substantial challenge to state sovereignty as a central concept in world order. Not the common good, not joint development, but classic independence, territorial integrity and non-interference were put in the spotlight, perhaps a reaction to persistent violations thereof in latest history.
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On October 28-30, 2015, RIAC Media and Government Relations Manager Anton Tsvetov was in Beijing at the 160th Bergerdorf Roundtable “New Players – Old Rules? The Global Order in Transition” organized by the
Körber Foundation
and International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
The forum was attended by European politicians and researchers, representatives and top figures of political parties, foreign ministries, international organizations...
Syria and especially Ukraine appear to be inflection points in the trajectory of Russian foreign policy
Ivan Timofeev, who participated in the annual meeting of Valdai International Discussion Club is giving a talk on the outline of future Russian foreign policy.
After the Ukraine crisis and military intervention in Syria, the key principles and ideas underpinning Russian foreign policy are becoming easier to understand.
Against the backdrop of the Ukraine crisis and the military airstrikes in...
On September 30 – October 2, 2015, Belgrade was the venue of the
5th Security Forum
held under the leitmotif “
Can Europe Redefine Itself?
” in view of exacerbation of problems related with Middle East refugees, Ukraine crisis, Islamic radicalism, efficiency of European institutions, the role of the OSCE in conflict settlement including maintenance of peace in the Balkans. The event gathered over 600 participants, among them a Russian delegation invited by the organizers to continue...
On February 5, 2014, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov represented Russia at international conference “The Role of the European Union in Global Re-Ordering: Leadership or Adaptation?” organized in Brussels by the Instituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI) and the Institut d’Etudes Europeennes at Universite libre de Bruxelles.
The event was held within the EU program “Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks” implemented by an
international...
What is the main dividing line in the modern global politics? The flavor of the season is “the West vs the Rest” paradigm.
The declining West is trying to preserve its global domination, while the rising Rest is fighting for an alternative world order denying the universalism of the Western institutions, principles and values.
Russia and China are leading the rebellion of the Rest with Moscow questioning the US security hegemony and Beijing challenging the West-centered economic and financial ...
... of the United States on other countries and peoples surprised many. The central argument of Putin’s Munich Speech was clear and unambiguous: It is high time to start thinking about the creation of a new global security architecture, and a new world order in general.
For some, Putin’s Munich Speech came as a complete surprise and, I might add, an annoying and unpleasant one. But his dismay and disappointment with the West was completely understandable in the context of the events that ...
Applying the “predator-prey” model to the system of international relations
The crisis in relations between Russia and the West, the advance of ISIS, and the arms race in the Asia-Pacific region all point to a potential shake-up of the world order. Shake-ups of this kind tend to be of a catastrophic nature – a gradual change in some critical area is suddenly accelerated, triggering a cascade.
Politicians, experts, and decision-makers repeat the mantra of nonlinearity, whereby ...
The XI Annual Session of the Valdai International Discussion Club opened in Sochi today (October 22). The topic of this year’s meeting is “The World Order: New Rules or a Game without Rules?” Around 100 participants from over 25 countries will come together at the Session to work on new approaches to issues on the global agenda. Among those taking part will be RIAC President
Igor Ivanov
...
Russia needs a world order in which its opponents cannot monopolize global sources of growth and restrict access to them should political differences arise. Multi-polarity has acquired a completely new meaning. In the past, it was understood as the co-existence of several ...
