... In addition to thorny domestic problems, regional conflicts will develop and become more likely, terrorism, extremism and separatism will easily spread, and the goal of eradicating poverty will become more difficult to achieve.
Ivan Timofeev:
Ending Western Domination Is Key to the Emerging World Order. Here’s What Needs to Be Done to Achieve It
On the other hand, the appetite of great powers to engage in state-building in remote corners of the world is likely to remain low. The whole idea of the state-building assistance has been compromised ...
... 2020s and further elaborate the more general Chinese foreign policy doctrine of "a global community of shared future."
Andrey Kortunov:
Decoding China: GSI and Beijing's International Role
Although the GCI does not directly challenge the Western "rules-based international order" paradigm, it has still faced harsh criticism from the West, similar to the two earlier initiatives. Over the past year, there have been numerous statements arguing that the GCI is fundamentally flawed ...
... may well lead to a complete annihilation of the humankind. Instead, they prefer to go for proxy wars (like the one that the West now wages in Ukraine against Russia) or economic and technological wars (like the one that the United States has launched ... ... Europe, in Asia or in the world at large—is likely to remain uncertain, ambiguous and contested for a long time. Thus, the new world order is unlikely to become a product of another Big Deal of Grand Bargain between major players, it is more likely to emerge ...
... interesting for discussing some common topics within the framework of Franco-Russian relations: issues such as strategic stability, regional conflict resolution, and cyber security. However, at the current stage, French attempts to preserve the generally pro-Western world order, even if with some adjustments, come into fundamental collision with Russia’s commitment to building a real multipolar world.
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... 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 ...
... order by devising a dichotomy between rules and power, “right” and “wrong” development models. However, these same processes of global political fragmentation and structural transformation trigger disintegration, revealing the nature of the Western world order, demonstrating its purely Western-centered limited character coupled with American dominance. What began as a liberal, idealistic project of restructuring the international system under American leadership first mired in contradictions and ...
... guide the country toward the future. Seen against this background, changes in Russia’s foreign policy, which are more noticeable from the outside than domestic developments, are but the tip of the iceberg.
The House of Foes
Ivan Timofeev:
Ending Western Domination Is Key to the Emerging World Order. Here’s What Needs to Be Done to Achieve It
Essentially, the war in Ukraine has produced an earthquake in the realm of Russia’s external strategy, its use of diplomacy and military force, and radically altered the way Moscow looks at the ...
... one hand, on the fundamental role of the UN and, on the other, on the authority and sovereignty of leading great powers, including Russia itself.
The idea of multipolarity has gained traction among many large countries, such as India and China. Even Western experts haven’t dismissed the possibility. In a way, it has been slowly morphing into an idealized picture of a future world order.
Ivan Timofeev:
A State as Civilisation and Political Theory
Meanwhile, a multipolar world is becoming a reality. We are living in a new system, the rules of which we do not fully comprehend. If we want to make sense of this reality, we must ...
... agreements on cooperation with their business partners from Russia. In sum, the Global South so far has demonstrated a spectacular resilience in its commitment to stay out of the escalating conflict between Russia and the West.
Andrey Kortunov:
A New Western Cohesion and World Order
This persistent resistance to the continuous pressure from the West calls for explanations. One of such explanations is a wide spread perception in the Global South that the Western approach to Ukraine is a clear manifestation of double standards....
... although they raised concerns about their tenacity of resistance, their insistence on having nuclear programs, successful adaptation to sanctions, and, by and large, high resilience to potential military attack due to its high cost.
Andrey Kortunov:
A New Western Cohesion and World Order
For a short period, it seemed that a global challenge could come from radical Islamism. But it also could not shake the existing order. The initially spectacular military campaigns of the US and its allies in Iraq and Afghanistan did little ...