... Kortunov:
Unpacking Trump’s Proposals for Ukraine
The diplomatic rupture between Washington and Moscow began in 2016 with U.S. accusations of Russian interference in the presidential elections. Tensions escalated further in 2018 when the U.S. expelled Russian ... ... to European security, NATO’s role is set to diminish. This shift aligns with Russia’s long-standing objective of limiting Western military presence near its borders.
Economic Revival: The resumption of diplomatic ties is expected to lead to the lifting ...
... at least, of approaches to some of the main sources of security threats to Asia as they are currently seen from each of the two capitals.
For foreign policy decision-makers in Moscow, the core security challenge to Asian countries comes from overseas Western powers that have got involved in the continent over previous centuries and that have always been committed to keeping Asia disunited and fragmented to the extent possible in order to exercise an external control over the continent and to exploit ...
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,...
... in Washington.
As it was the case in 1990s, the US approach to the Global South is not very different from its approach to US Western allies and partners: both groups of nations appear to be not full-fledged sovereign decision-makers, but rather as disciplined ... ... whether it concerns movie productions from Hollywood or the research programs of American universities. The position of the USA in international institutions (especially when it comes to their bureaucracy, which represents a kind of global Deep State) ...
... for national interests and civilizational values, and consensus.
Neither BRICS nor the SCO is overtly anti-American or anti-Western: their main focus is internal rather than external, and they have their work cut out for them. Of course, Russia, China,... ... don’t want to dominate Eurasia: they live there, it is their home – unlike the ever-restless
“indispensable nation”
thousands of miles away. In Ukraine, the main issue for Russia has been national security, not some
“resurrection of an empire”
...
... destroying Russian economy.
China played an important role even at the stage of Russian preparations for a major conflict with the West. Less than three weeks before the start of the Special Military Operation, on February 4, 2022, Russian President Vladimir ... ... during the visit thereby contributing to Russia’s reorientation of economic ties from Europe towards China later led to the accusations against China that Beijing had been informed by Russians about the coming conflict, and China supported the Special Military ...
... features of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, like all wars it has caused enormous suffering on both sides, with hundreds of thousands of military personnel and civilians killed and wounded, cities and houses reduced to rubble, the accumulation of hundreds ... ... Founding Act, and so on. There was a surge of trade, investments, tourism and civil society interaction between the East and the West. Unfortunately, it turned out that the two sides had very different perceptions about very fundamental dimensions of international ...
... than two decades have passed, and the world has become a very different place. The war on terrorism is no longer the top priority of global politics: it has given way to the more familiar geopolitical confrontation between great powers. Russia and the West,
the United States
and China constantly accuse each other of directly or indirectly supporting terrorist organizations and movements.
Successful joint war on terror involves, among other things, the exchange of more than sensitive information, the ...
... dynamics of certain international problems. That is, in general, it is important from the point of view of communication between our countries, strengthening friendship and relations of privileged comprehensive strategic partnership.
Ivan Timofeev:
Russia-West: Rising Stakes
What are the main factors that will ultimately determine the resolution of the Ukraine crisis and conflict by peaceful means?
This is a complex question because the Ukraine conflict is caused by a whole complex of contradictions that ...
... relations, is going through a period of severe stress. Over the last five years, Russia’s share of Indian defense imports went down from 60% to 45% and is likely to shrink even further in the near future. Moscow has to confront the rapid expansion of the Western presence in the Indian arms markets and the current "Made in India" strategy pursued by the Indian leadership. On top of that, there are questions in India about the reliability of Russian weapons, Russia’s compliance with delivery ...
