Developing a new, understandable language of “sustainable security” in Eurasia, thanks to which everyone will be able to contribute to solving and anticipating common problems in their own way, is necessary
Interaction with China remains one of the most stable and reliable elements for Russia’s foreign policy. The trusting relationship between the leaders of the two countries contributes to the development of a political dialogue in regular high-level meetings and joint ...
... contradictions impeding the new world order’s formation.
In the fall of 2024, such an understanding is in need of correction.
First,
regarding nuclear weapons. It is not that they have ceased to function as a deterrent. Their possession by Russia, China—and to some extent Israel—does deter those states’ adversaries from actions that they would likely otherwise take to achieve success. But the Ukraine conflict has forced the world to reconsider the limits of nuclear deterrence, i.e., to define ...
... starting point of the Russian-Chinese consensus on international cooperation, i.e., the opposition to the unipolar structure of the world and the advocacy of a multipolar international political structure was the first factor that pushed Russia and China towards international cooperation. In April 1996, President Boris Yeltsin visited China to take part in the first summit of the “Shanghai Five” in Shanghai, where he made an impromptu speech at the summit dinner that caused a wide international ...
China's success should teach us that no other nation should try to copy China's model but should instead create a national model for itself
A couple of months ago, I came to Shanghai for a workshop hosted by Fudan University. As a part of the standard ...
On September 21–22, 2024 Xian (China) hosted an International Forum of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Think Tanks “Promoting Sustainable Development, Creating Common Home”
On September 21–22, 2024 Xian (China) hosted an International Forum of the Shanghai Cooperation ...
... manganese, limestone, phosphates, marble, salt, gypsum and oil—but will the trio manage to extract them on their own (though jointly) in commercial quantities to gain economic sovereignty, not just political one? Or all hopes are again pinned on Russia, China, Turkey, Iran and other non-Western nations? And if so, is “sovereignty” the right word here? Of course, “dependence” on Russia, for example, would differ from neocolonialism by ensuring “fairness” and “equality between partners,” ...
... an alarm clock, it might well have plunged us back into barbarism, but it might, on the other hand, have meant the end of national sovereignty and of the highly-centralised police State.” The first is confirmed so far — even economically powerful China does not yet have, apparently, arsenals comparable to those of Russia and the United States. The second — “an end to large-scale wars” — still requires additional evidence. Accumulating this evidence is a crucial aspect of contemporary world ...
... of international relations, offering a compelling alternative to Western approaches, particularly the one proposed in Samuel Huntington’s
The Clash of Civilizations
[Huntington 1993]. It informed the idea of trilateral cooperation between Russia, China and India, implemented by Primakov and later embodied in the BRICS group. By now, the idea of multipolarity has been recognized in global political science, has entered the conceptual framework and the language of international diplomacy and is ...
On September 9, 2024, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Synergia Foundation (Bangalore, India) and the Grandview Institution (Beijing, China) organised an online seminar ‘Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in the New World Order. Scenarios of Evolution’
On September 9, 2024, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Synergia Foundation (Bangalore, India) and the Grandview ...
... further escalation. The U.S. has no interest in a major regional war in the Middle East with an uncertain outcome, especially in the run-up to the presidential election in November. Thus, Washington is focused on maintaining the regional status quo. China has even less reason to welcome such a conflict, in the first place because it would immediately drive global hydrocarbon prices up and create many transportation and logistics issues for Beijing.
Moscow could possibly count on some short-term gains ...
