... agenda in Moscow. In March the two leaders could have still approached international developments in terms of damage limitation. In October, it is hard to deny that the damage to the old international system is already beyond repair. The post-Cold War world order that lasted for more than thirty years is unraveling with an accelerating speed. The remaining elements of this order are still with us, but not so much due to the resilience of the system, as to its accumulated inertia. Still, this inertia ...
... years, including a primary focus on strengthening the EU’s strategic autonomy and enhanced creativity in a number of other regional areas. This time, however, a remarkable keynote ran through his speech—recognition of the breakdown of the previous world order and a clearly articulated intention to put this process on hold. Bolstered by several recent initiatives, such reasoning can be interpreted as a signal of Paris’s leadership ambitions in building a dialogue between the global North and South ...
BRICS has received an impulse to make a real transition to a new, more just world order
BRICS has received an impulse to make a real transition to a new, more just world order. The ability of the new BRICS to fully realize itself and fulfill the mission of the transition depends on how our descendants will remember the 21st ...
... Studies at Fudan University, addressed the participants with welcoming remarks.
The conference was held in two sessions. The former dealt with the development of political interaction in the regional and global context. The issues of the evolution of the world order and the intensification of great-power competition, as well as Russia-China-U.S. and Russia-China-India strategic triangles, have been raised. The emphasis was placed on international cooperation platforms (BRICS, SCO, RIC) where the two countries ...
The whole idea that someone—be it Moscow, Washington or Beijing—can ‘lose’ India looks excessively arrogant, if not completely preposterous
Is Russia losing India? They raise this question at practically every conference, workshop or an expert meeting on Russian-Indian relations since the times of the Soviet disintegration in early 1990s. Quite often, the predominant views expressed by participants are pessimistic, if not alarmist.
Yes, Russia is losing India or it might lose India in the near...
Idea mongers both in the U.S. and Europe seek to obscure the dark pages of the liberal world order advancement by emphasizing a dichotomy between “rules” and “power”, the “right” and “wrong” development models
In the political vocabulary of U.S. and European politicians, the term “rules-based international order” is ...
... trans-border information exchanges? This image is unclear, but it will depend on major powers. And, of course, India remains one of the key actors.
Conflict Termination in Ukraine?
Andrey Kortunov:
Restoration, Reformation, Revolution? Blueprints for the World Order after the Russia-Ukraine conflict
That Russia can sustain the conflict is beyond doubt and is supported by three factors. First is the military hardware. Russia has an advantage because it has a bigger industrial base than Ukraine, and this ...
... Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) together with RAS IMEMO, and the journal "The World Economy and International Relations" (MEMO Journal) held the 9th joint research workshop on technological leadership in the transformation of the world order
On June 30, 2023, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) together with RAS IMEMO, and the journal "The World Economy and International Relations" (MEMO Journal) held the 9th joint research workshop on technological leadership ...
... more relaxed about this critical dimension of global politics. Of course, back in 2019 the US foreign policy was managed by flamboyant, erratic and unpredictable Donald Trump, who could hardly be considered a great fan of China or of a multilateral world order. However, in 2019 there were hopes that many of the complications associated with Trump would fade away together with the latter and that a more professional and more forward-looking leader in the White House would seek a mutually acceptable ...
... revolutionary changes that shape all aspects of human activity. These changes are logical and inevitable, as they reflect objective trends and the new needs of social development. The current changes are, in fact, undermining the foundations of the world order established in the mid-20th century, which served for the bipolar model existed until the early 1990s and, later, the unipolar model that replaced bipolarity. Today, the two models have irrevocably become a thing of the past. And we are now ...
