It is difficult to imagine that a new system of global and regional security can be based on the “good old” European principles
NATO and the SCO represent two opposing concepts of ensuring international security: through control over the internal politics of the states included in the system, and through intensive diplomatic dialogue between them. We cannot now say with certainty which of ...
... without the direct participation of the West.
On a global scale, we are witnessing the activities of the BRICS, which emerged as an alternative to the Western world order, but took the form of its most interesting achievement. At the regional level of Eurasia, the activity of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), which is also an international institution, but without the participation of Western countries, has become quite successful. Even Russia and its closest neighbours have created institutions such as the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the Collective ...
..., Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) are not enough to resist Russia. But Russia itself, in realising its vulnerabilities, is forced to pursue a policy in which there is no room for dictate. This is especially true amid the current circumstances, when for Moscow the EAEU is becoming not an auxiliary, but an important way of connecting with those markets from which the West seeks to alienate it.
These countries operate under market economic principles and so far depend little on external political factors. We see that ...
... crucial juncture: throughout the past several years significant steps have been undertaken by developing nations to build pan-continental integration platforms – in Africa it was the creation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), while in Eurasia the expansion of SCO membership was accompanied by the creation of RCEP. The next stage in this process would be to link up all of the pan-continental platforms in Eurasia, Africa and Latin America into one common platform that would cover the bulk of the developing world ...