... analytical ability that helps us attribute numerous events to a more or less understandable model.
I think in 2018, the community of Russian experts on international affairs resumed the discussion of a fundamental question of the modern world structure. For many ... ... omit some important details that were clearly pronounced in 2018, when the picture became more complex.
Igor Ivanov:
Russia, China and the New World Order
It is difficult to argue against the idea of multipolarity if we look at it from the realistic ...
... the preferred position of regional referee, has thus far succeeded in manoeuvring among the various regional players. Russia has been less successful in the Russia–China–India triangle that Yevgeny Primakov had once promoted as the foundation of a multipolar world: the equilateral Russia–China–India triangle is slowly but steadily evolving towards a military alliance between Russia and China.
Overcoming the remnants of bipolar logic is a necessary but insufficient condition for a successful foreign policy. It would seem that the successful ...
... the building of a community of a single fate for humanity, as well as facilitate the establishment of a more just and rational multipolar world order on the basis of equal participation of all nations in global governance, adherence to international law,... ... each other’s interests, and a refusal of confrontation and conflicts.”
Obviously, not everything in the world depends on Russia and China. If the situation develops according to the worst-case scenario and our Western partners are not willing or able to change ...
... Greater Europe, an integrated space stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok, attracted a great deal of support. You only need read Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
2010 commentary in Seuddeutsche Zeitung
to understand just how powerful this idea once ... ... in Moscow have their sights set instead on a “
Greater Asia
”, from St Petersburg to Shanghai. Massive deals with China, like an estimated
$2 billion to supply Beijing with advanced SU-35 fighter jets
, are illustrative of this broader shift ...
It was widely speculated that the exclusion of Russia from leading industrial countries would result into an almost unresolved conflict between Russia and NATO nations. The recent G-7 Summit, if seen in the perspective of bilateral economic and strategic developments between Russia and China, was expected to become instrumental for mounting extra-ordinary pressure on Russia. It was widely believed that this meeting was due to re-initiate the process of bi-polarizing world. President Vladimir Putin said in an interview before the inception ...
