... cultures and civilizations is a vital source and resource for development. This specificity in understanding progress and development distinguishes the classical theorists of local civilizations from “globalists” and “cosmopolitans,” who view globalization as cultural-historical unification with the ultimate goal of creating a universal global civilization. Unlike globalists, “civilizationists” see cultural-historical and civilizational distinctions not solely as a threat of a “clash ...
Multipolarity, Economic globalization, and International order
Sino-Russian international cooperation revolves around a number of core concepts, among which multipolarity, globalization, and international order-building occupy a prominent place. The consensus between the two ...
... standards, if the Chinese are not in the room.
No wonder that Beijing is so interested in keeping global trade open and unconstrained. At the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping had sent a clear message that China advances globalization and the multilateral trading system and opposes protectionism.
Still, it is not only about numbers. It is even more important that China is in the vanguard of the transition to a new model of sustainable economy, and it assists other nations ...
... interpretations of multilateralism, peculiarities of historical model of multilateralism in the second half of the 20th century, the effectiveness of international institutes and procedures, as well as the link connecting practical multilateralism and globalization.
International Multilateralism in a Non-Hegemonic World
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... advisory firm in Toronto, Canada. Abishur has worked with some of the largest companies in the world, including institutions and governments. He is also the author of five books, including his latest, “The World Is Vertical: How Technology Is Remaking Globalization.” Abishur has appeared in some of the world’s biggest media outlets, including CNBC, BBC, CNN and Fortune.
The title of your book is “THE WORLD IS VERTICAL”. What prompted you to write such a book? What was your ultimate objective?...
... politicians, the expert community and individuals on how bad the situation would turn out to be started to change. At first, many pundits believed that the response of the world’s leading countries to the new biogenic threat would entail the collapse of globalization, with the pandemic seen as the culmination of the 2010s, a decade largely characterized by a “nationalization” of world politics or a re-sovereignization of the nation state. “Re-sovereignization” stands to mean a certain propensity ...
... changes its attitude toward the presented topic and whether a speaker manages to be persuasive.
The third discussion will begin on October 5 at 18:00 (Moscow time, GMT+3). The topic of the meeting: Has the COVID-19 pandemic ended the era of accelerated globalization?
Speakers:
Anastasia Likhacheva, Director, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies, Higher School of Economics
Sergey Utkin, Lead Researcher, Center for Situational Analysis, IMEMO
Carsten Kowalczyk, Associate Professor ...
Should humankind fail to agree on some civilizational synthesis within the next couple of decades, “globalization 2.0” will definitely fall short of accomplishing the most fundamental mission of the 21st century
These days, humankind goes through a protracted and painful process of deglobalization. It remains to be seen whether this process was ...
... potatoes or sugar beets; if high quality equipment is used and strict compliance with rigid technological standards is ensured, nothing of the original raw material remains in the end product.
Andrey Kortunov:
The World Order Crisis and the Future of Globalization
Naturally, true connoisseurs of vodka claim that the quality of the drink heavily depends on water quality and the professional secrets of purification. When connoisseurs taste a good vodka, they note the highlights of wheat bread, rye ...
... stability, while maintaining those balances would form the basis for cooperation as actors would have to do in accordance with the neo-realist approach.
New Structural Realities: A Global Non-Integrated World
What was in the late 20
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century labelled globalization—following several decades of the world’s growing interdependence and its new (or not entirely new) quality—may, in a broader context, be viewed as the merging of two processes that had been increasingly intertwined over the two or ...
