Why do countries that initiate sanctions reduce them? How long-term and sustainable is such a process?
Modern literature on economic sanctions focuses on the effectiveness of their application. Scholars and practitioners are interested in the extent to which sanctions help achieve certain political goals—force a political change, cause damage, limit the development of the target country, etc. Much less attention is paid to the issue of lifting or easing sanctions—why do countries that initiate...
The speed of his cabinet nomination announcements tells us that the Republican president-elect has a plan
US President-elect Donald Trump has moved quickly to form his proposed new administration. His team is better prepared to take power than it was in 2016 – when neither the candidate himself nor the vast majority of his supporters believed he could win.
It’s too early to draw far-reaching conclusions, but in general, the composition of the preferred government reflects the ideological and political...
Will Russia continue its “business as usual” aimed at maintaining the existing status-quo or will it be forced to review and to revise its positions towards Israel, Palestinians, Iran and its main partners in the Arab world?
The spectacular comeback of Donald Trump to the White House will undoubtedly have a profound impact on the US overall international positioning, as well as on specific dimensions of the US approaches to various regions of the world. Of course, the US foreign policy has a bipartisan...
The Russian and the Indian approaches to security matters compliment each other and should generate the synergy needed to address the very complicated Asia security agenda
The idea of a collective security system in Asia has become a subject of discussions both in Russia and in India. Each of the two nations, given its size, power, history, military capabilities and political ambitions, has a lot of impact on the overall strategic situation in this part of the world, both are destined to play an...
The era of Washington’s belief in the need to manage global affairs is coming to an end, and the president-elect will help shape the world
Let’s be clear, the outcome of the US election won’t change the world. Processes that didn’t begin yesterday won’t tomorrow. But the American vote has become an important indicator of long-term change.
The columnists of the liberal New York Times, which actively supported Kamala Harris, declared on the morning after the election: It is time to recognize that...
The presidential elections in the United States will determine the future of international relations and become a prologue for a post-Westphalian system of inter-civilizational dialogue
Russia, Europe, and America: Towards a Post-Westphalian World Order
The transformation of the current world order, frequently discussed by numerous experts and scholars as a “global restructuring,” is largely driven by a crisis in nation-states and the underlying cultural code of modern civilization. For centuries...
The United States and its allies have serious cause for concern
High-ranking American officials are
reporting
the appearance of North Korean military personnel in Russia, and also admit the possibility of their participation in the Ukrainian conflict on the Russian side. The Russian Foreign Ministry
characterises
such statements as information leaks and hype.
Konstantin Asmolov:
Russia and North Korea Ready to Cooperate in a Big Way
Meanwhile, the United States and its allies have serious cause...
An End to Consequentialism in Global Politics
The world has been in conflict for as long as time itself. This is not hyperbole; conflict is a perennial condition in global affairs, driven primarily by human nature, which has provided fertile ground for international relations theorists. In this ongoing process, global politics is once again at an inflection point, emerging stronger from the twilight of arbitrary values and misguided perceptions that US unipolarity has imposed for the past three...
The concept of secondary sanctions remains vague. It has acquired not only and not even so much a legal or political character, but a psychological one
Secondary sanctions have now become one of the key political risks facing the foreign partners of Russian businesses. Attention to them has increased significantly since the start of the Special Military Operation and the use of large-scale economic sanctions against Russia by the United States and other Western countries.
Andrey Kortunov:
Russia’s...
Trump’s victory will be undesirable for Tehran, but it is difficult to call it mortally dangerous for the country
Given that American foreign policy today is largely burdened with containing
Russia
and
China
, an active anti-Iranian policy may face a lack of resources. Therefore, Trump’s victory will be undesirable for Tehran.
The outcome of the US presidential elections has very little significance for Russia. The elections are also unlikely to fundamentally change the course of American foreign...
