... civilizational divergences between the Anglo-Saxon and the Continental European worlds. Nonetheless, the numerous AI management challenges cannot wait until both sides of the Atlantic Ocean sort out their disagreements and come to a common denominator. The AI global governance should move on—with the US and UK governmental participation, or even without it for the time being.
Alexander Ignatov:
BRICS Expansion and Prospects for BRICS Cooperation in the Digital Economy
If a comprehensive universal and legally ...
... decided to keep its mandate deliberately broad and it is not going to focus its future activities on something more specific—like, for instance, on promoting trade among members of the group. Instead, BRICS intends to position itself as an important global governance lab, where they can test new models of multilateral cooperation and innovative patterns of addressing critical problems of global economy, trade, finances, strategic stability, non-proliferation, reforming the United Nations system, ...
... matters, but narrowing existing gaps in perceptions and approaches to the emerging global agenda is critically important. One should note that given its diversity and inclusivity, BRICS can offer a unique platform, at which various non-Western views on global governance and on an extended reproduction of global commons can be articulated and, hopefully, reconciled. The broad range of these issues extends to both security and development dimensions. The importance of this role that BRICS can play is ...
GRANI Project Interview with RIAC Director General Ivan Timofeev
The GRANI Project’s Oleg Yankovsky interviews special guest Ivan Timofeev, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, PhD in Political Science.
In the interview they discussed:
The role of states in 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...
The trip is likely to be quite special and important
In mid-May Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will fly to China on an official state visit. A sceptic would say that this visit is not really a big deal: the Russian leader and his Chinese counterpart, Chairman Xi Jinping had bilateral meetings at least forty times since 2013, when Xi was first elected as Chairman of PRC. The Russian President was in Beijing last time no longer ago than in October of 2023, when he participated to the high level...
... United Nations or how European populists demonize EU bureaucracies in Brussels. In times of growing economic hardships, social strains and security threats such sentiments inevitably become more popular.
This means that we cannot analyze the crisis of global governance without addressing some of the fundamental changes within nation-states. What we observe can be described as a long-term decay of the traditional mechanisms of social and political mobilization caused by the continuous social stratification ...
The literature review was proposed to consider various views on the BRICS placement, both in its institution-building processes and general South-South cooperation structure
As BRICS becomes more grounded, the question arises as to what kind of institutionalization the
group needs to make it more effective and to give it more content.
Suresh P. Singh and Memory Dube
With the group’s expansion, the need for institutionalization and apparatus-creation has seemingly become more visible. For the purposes...
Russia and China as prominent spacefaring nations could contribute to the understanding of the space economy—space security nexus, utilizing existing levers to make space diplomats and space companies agree upon acting in a mutually beneficial, sustainable manner
When we talk about ‘space economy’, what comes up to our mind? The issue of its definition and measurement, ambiguousness that exists regarding the scope of downstream, upstream and even midstream segments of space economy. Deliberations...
... BRICS enlargement could be a member’s potential for changing or preserving the format per se. At present, Russia and China support expanding the sphere of BRICS responsibility in one form or another as well as the forum’s more active inclusion in global governance processes. Adding a nation with a similar foreign policy stance could help transform the five current members into a more traditional international coalition or a formalized political alliance. On the contrary, the accession of a state ...
... much easier to be pessimistic about the future than to be optimistic about it. Still, one should not forget that the darkest hour is just before dawn. This might be the most important takeaway from President Xi's visit to Moscow. The deep crisis in global governance that mankind is going through now might result in fundamental changes in the international system, which many of us have been anticipating for such a long time.
First published in the
Global Times
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