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In today’s globalized world system, barely any issues can be considered a matter of concern for only one country. Developments in all spheres of international relations - be it nuclear proliferation, climate change, epidemics and diseases, financial instability, or cyber security - affect the whole world in one way or the other. Today’s international setting suggests that the world order to ...
On March 3-4, Central European University (Budapest) hosted international conference "Russia in International Relations: in Search of Role and Identity." The event gathered university professors, experts and dplomats from Hungary, Germany, the U.S.A., Armenia, Turkey, Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Poland and China. Russia was represented ...
On February 16, 2017, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) held the first “city breakfast” in Fyodor Dostoevsky library. Ivan Timofeev, RIAC Director of Programs, and Timur Makhmutov, RIAC Deputy Director of Programs, gave a lecture “the World in 100 years. International affairs forecasting: what is waiting for us in the 22 nd century?” The experts discussed the main trends influencing world politics, and suggested possible development options for international...
The year 2016 is important for understanding the changes in the international arena that started two years before. It was in 2016 that we began to see the new reality – the more or less clear contours of the future – take shape. Nothing was so clear in 2014, which was marked by the abrupt transformation of Russia’s relations with the outside world. This was also true of 2015, as too little time passed since key players made extremely consequential decisions whose long-term effects...
... increasing the world system’s level of governability is in the fundamental interests of all responsible participants in this system. Collapsed Trajectory or Growing Pains? Ivan Timofeev: World Order Or World Anarchy? A Look at the Modern System of International Relations If we proceed from such a definition of the liberal world order, some of the arguments put forward by its opponents must be dismissed right away. The American hegemony is linked to this world order only indirectly. Of course, the ...
... moderated by French Ambassador to Russia Jean-Maurice Ripert, covered the issues of Russia’s foreign and domestic policy, European security and the European Union’s future, Russian-French relations, as well as development of the system of international relations as a whole, in particular, the prospects for international legal practice of “Humanitarian Intervention” and “Responsibility for Protection” concepts, introduced with the help of B. Kushner.
On January 19, 2016, Sciences Po’s (the Paris Institute of Political Studies) School of International Affairs in partnership with the Center for Analysis, Forecasts and Strategy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development of France (le Centre d’analyse, de prévision et de stratégie du Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement international) hosted an international conference “ The Art of Diplomacy in the...
... powers turned out to be stronger than international institutions. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov Andrey Kortunov: Foreign policy 2016: Ten New Year wishes (In russian) On the whole, 2015 marked the triumphant return of the “Age of Politics” to international relations. Even in the former bipolar world, not to mention the 25 years that came after the end of the Cold War, international politics were dominated by economic concerns. Globalization is a product of the economy, not of politics. Last ...
... governments over the Crimean Republic and Sevastopol as an extensive game with simultaneous moves which may supply us with verifiable predictions about equilibrium strategies of the players and their outcomes. Players It has become a truism to say that international relations (and politics in general) are a result of actions of many agents, many of whom are not perfectly rational. Although it is somewhat a fair description of interactions in domestic politics (at least when it comes to the multiplicity ...
... at least, I can think of what my speech would be like. “Dear professors, lecturers, deans and everyone else! Thank you for this magnificent opportunity to express my deep gratitude! First of all, thank you for helping me understand that international relations and political science are not really science. The amount of biases, stereotypes, scholasticism, combined with great politicization and ideologization, lack of expertise in vast areas and unproven belief in the ability to predict ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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