POLITICS Final Session of the 13th National People’s Congress and Some Results of 10 Years of State Development A. Vinogradov, P. Troshchinsky Institutional Transformation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization After Enlargement: Status, Problems, and Outlook (Read this article online for FREE) Liang Zhenpeng, A. Kozinets ECONOMICS China’s Trade and Economic Cooperation With the World and […]
This article notes that Washington and Tokyo intend to continue hindering Taiwan’s reunification with Mainland China, which would greatly strengthen Beijing’s position in the Pacific Ocean. Under the administration of President Donald Trump, the United States notably stepped up its support for Taiwan, in both expanding its official ties with Taipei and supplying it with American arms.
GEOPOLITICS AND SECURITY Hybrid Dangers and Threats and Their Impact on Russia’s Military Security System A.V. Serzhantov, D.A. Pavlov Hybrid Warfare by the US and NATO Countries: Its Essence and Aims Kh.I. Saifetdinov Russia’s Military and Economic Security Amid Interstate Confrontation O.V. Rodionov, A.Ye. Nikolayev Strategic Deterrence as a Factor Ensuring Russia’s National Security V.A. […]
Wars that are a continuation of politics by states have practically always been waged according to special rules of warfare, by a specially trained state organization: the army. Analysis of the international situation that has evolved lately shows that the military conflicts occurring in the world are fundamentally different from the classical war type. New-type conflicts lack the uniformity of organized force traditionally represented by the state. Instead, they feature nonstate entities as initiators of organized action and the employment of nonmilitary methods of confrontation along with traditional military methods.
RUSSIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS are going through what is probably their worst phase in the last 70 years. Diplomatic contacts are at a bare minimum. Dialogue on education, science, culture, sports, and humanitarian cooperation has been almost entirely cut off by the American side. Trade and economic ties have been fatally disrupted by a wave of sanctions. […]
POLITICAL ANALYSTS in many countries, including America, have been discussing a post-American world for years now. The Ukrainian crisis and its impending end allow us to talk about a new kind of geopolitics, since extensive American involvement in this conflict by proxy might mean that the defeat of Kiev will become the defeat of the […]
Position of the Russian Federation MARCH 18, 2014 saw the signing of an international agreement between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Crimea on admission of the Republic of Crimea to the RF and on creation of new subjects within the Russian Federation. Under the agreement, applicable from the date of signature and in […]
In This Issue FOCUS ON RUSSIA Civic Activism of Generations in Modern Russian Society R. Parma Social Health of Russian Society: Trends in Demographic and Criminal Statistics M. Morev ESSAYS Russia and India: Challenges and Prospects for Cooperation A. Kupriyanov South Asian Migration to Western Europe: Origins, Trends, Perspectives A. Volodin Can an Economic Agent […]
This article analyzes some aspects of civilizationism as a trend in the self-positioning strategies of several Asian states, notably China and India, as well as some other countries. Close attention is paid to the concept of the civilization state (CS), as distinct from the nation state (NS), where the former reveals the specific characteristics of the major non-Western states.
POLITICS Eurasian Moscow-Beijing Axis: Challenges and Levels of Cooperation (Read this article online for FREE) A. Vinogradov ECONOMICS The South Korean Economy in the Face of New Challenges A. Zuyeva, V. Samsonova, L. Semina Regional Development of Liaoning Province and Partnership Cooperation With Russia Since the 1990s S. Makeyeva Bhutan’s Hydropower: An Economic Sector and […]