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What China's History Should Teach Us

... professor looks more convincing to me than many volumes of economic and social statistics. When I was a college freshman in Moscow almost half a century ago, most of my classmates including me looked at the United States as the ultimate manifestation of modernity. We had heated debates about various national modernization paths and development trajectories, but the end goal was clear: to catch up with the United States. The sooner the better. America was always the standard point of reference, the ultimate ...

23.09.2024

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2020 Munich Security Conference: Back to Utopia?

... to the economy and political systems, their submission to the requirements of efficiency, going hand in hand with disciplinary control and involving ever-wider masses of people. In political philosophy, these phenomena are denoted as the concept of modernity. The basic feature of the West is “modernity” with its mass rationality as a goal, means and value all rolled into one. Liberalism, with its faith in the human mind and progress, is a typical ideology of modernity. But socialism is also ...

21.02.2020

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In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?

U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements	33 (31%)
U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity	30 (28%)
U.S. wants to dissolve Russia	24 (22%)
U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China	21 (19%)