RIAC Working Paper No. 62 / 2022
RIAC Working Paper No. 62 / 2022
Practices and principles that underpin multilateralism are currently facing multiple challenges and major opposition, including one-sided rhetoric employed by leaders across the globe, a grave crisis of many multilateral organizations and regimes, both global and regional. Politicians are ...
Lack of democratic legitimacy must be grappled with – not only for the European Union as an elitist project but also for other multilateral organizations that perform regulatory functions
Amid economic and political globalization, a distinguishing feature of the contemporary international system has to do with the growing number and variety of non-state actors. A special place among these belongs to international (multilateral) institutions, which, in addition to informational and communicative...
... to go through a “bottleneck” in the coming years. In primitive times, tribes used to come together to solve common problems. Now it is up to states and international institutions to come together to address the common agenda of the 21
st
century.
Multilateralism is no longer an abstract theoretical concept; it is a practical model that is extremely difficult to put together, yet urgently needed in international “everyday life.” Given the gravity of the issues currently on the agenda for humanity,...
... itself as a great power—equal to the United States and China. Following this logic, Moscow demands an appropriate attitude and equality. Russia’s perspective on global processes reflects the growing influence of non-Western actors outside of liberal multilateralism. Moscow denies the international relations liberal theory in much the same way that the founders of the basic IR theory, Edward Carr and Hans Morgenthau, did. The liberal approach, and hence the vision of the United States, is seen as ...
... taking advantage of their important standing to revise the codified and uncodified rules and norms in international relations [Tammen et al. 2000; Davidson 2016; Schweller2015]. The rise of new powers, though, contributed just as well to debates on multilateralism and multipolarity of today’s world [Sakwa 2020].
As China was becoming increasingly assertive, the problem of the “hegemon” and the “contender” was singled out as a separate issue. This stride explored the possibilities of a ...
On February 9, 2021, TF8 (Multilateralism and Global Governance) international expert group first working session was held in a remote format in preparation for the next G20 summit
On February 9, 2021, TF8 (Multilateralism and Global Governance) international expert group first ...
Russia must be able to demonstrate results that exceed those in its attempts to integrate into Globalisation 1.0 at the beginning of the century
On January 1, 2021, we all met both the new year and the new, third decade of the 20th century. This is a good reason to think not only about possible events in world politics over the next twelve months, but also about the likely trends in the development of the international system over the next ten years.
Andrey Kortunov:
Aristotle and Alexander: Two...
The only plausible alternative to multilateralism is not a restoration of an old bipolar, unipolar or multipolar order, but a global disorder with no agreed-upon rules, procedures and hierarches of power
The multilateralism of the second half of the 20
th
century has become outdated,...
... objective reality.
Suppose that bipolarity has been already formed in material terms and China is one of it, what concept and policy will China choose? According to China’s thoughts, the most reasonable and possible choice is continuing to follow multilateralism. That is to say, China does not take the bipolarity as the center of international politics and does not regard the bipolarity as a super structure above the world, even if China’s national strength is higher than that of the other countries....
A Piece for the MSC Report “Zeitenwende
Wendezeiten”
In my view, the most valuable feature of German foreign policy is its firm commitment to the fundamental principle of multilateralism. It is particularly important today, when many international players including great powers explicitly or implicitly challenge this principle and shift to unilateralism and nationalism in dealing with their adversaries and partners alike....