... exacerbated by the deepening in-house political and social crises? This is not an easy question to answer, but the author, coming from Russia’s academic community, has taken the liberty to present his views on the future of the US leadership.
Restoring the Western cohesion
Most of the ongoing discussions about the resurrection of
Pax Americana
are in one way or another related to the unfolding conflict between Russia and Ukraine. There are various views on whether and how exactly the United States contributed ...
Moscow’s policy of building transaction mechanisms independent of the Western financial infrastructure will reduce the ability of Western countries to use their financial capabilities for political purposes
One of the key challenges facing the initiators of economic sanctions is in creating a coalition of countries willing ...
... international relations
The evolution of the world system following the end of the Cold War and its consequences
The conflict in Ukraine as a manifestation of accumulated contradictions within the world system
Rationality and pragmatism of today’s elites
Western perceptions of the crisis in Ukraine
The “confrontation” between the global majority and the “collective West”
The role and impact of sanctions and the consequences of Russian asset expropriation.
Fyodor Lukyanov:
‘Being in Order’ ...
... diplomacy and peace-binding measures.
Who is actually isolated?
New players, China, Russia and the BRICS states are on the world stage and are powerfully heralding the end of US hegemony, and with it the end of the dominance of the so-called “democratic Western world.”
On the currency front, too, more and more countries, especially the BRICS states, are decoupling from the US dollar, trading more with the renminbi or working on alternative cross-country currencies.
No wonder: Russian assets are frozen ...
The days when an external power dominated Eurasia are coming to an end. Countries in the ‘far west’ of the continent will soon need to wake up
Just two decades ago, for the first time ever, the great continent of Eurasia was dominated by one power – which, as it happened, wasn’t even Eurasian itself. Indeed, in the continent’s West, ...
... collapsed and the main thrust in international activity had changed, the Oriental direction seemed to have been sidelined.
Now, this impression has vanished into thin air, fortunately, and, I think, irrevocably. However, amid the declining interest in the West, certain distortions of orientalist knowledge have come to light. We have brilliant Sinologists, but in the international environment that has emerged, and first of all in the economic sphere, we need a significant number of professionals who understand ...
... a nuclear war [
1
]. The rest of the traditional European security agenda is put on a back burner for the time being. One can only hope that this agenda will return to the table before too long, and that the previous experience of managing the East-West stalemate in the shared European neighborhood will be in demand once again.
A lot will depend on when and how exactly the conflict ends, which is hard to predict at this point in time. Regretfully, today even a ceasefire, an armistice or meaningful ...
Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine and the subsequent collapse of the Russian-Western relations have had deep transformative effect on the Russian-Chinese relations
Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine and the subsequent collapse of the Russian-Western relations have had deep transformative effect on the Russian-Chinese ...
... principles that had earlier maintained the global stability and international order.
It would be therefore an oversimplification to argue that the ongoing crisis of multilateralism is caused by the sharp crisis in the relations between Russia and the West or the tensions between Beijing and Washington. The problems of multilateral institutions and regimes are deeper and are more universal. The efficiency and even legitimacy of these institutions and regimes are put into question, political populists ...
... bring together both NATO countries and those which did not belong to the alliance, including Russia, into a single community. But since the beginning of the 2000s, there has been a process of politicisation of the OSCE in favour of the interests of Western countries. Russia has increasingly viewed NATO expansion as a security threat. Instruments such as the Russia-NATO Council were unable to absorb the growing contradictions. The lack of effective and equal institutions that would take into account ...
