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The Global Context THE CURRENT STAGE of Russia’s pivot to the East is the product of the second half of the 2000s largely as a belated economic response to the rise of Asia, which opened new opportunities for the country’s development, especially for its eastern part. That rise made it possible to turn the Ural […]
THE 95TH ANNIVERSARY OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Sergey Lavrov’s Congratulatory Message The 25th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations With the Central Asian CountriesSergey Lavrov WORLD ISSUES Overcoming Uncertainty: Russia’s New Foreign Policy ConceptV. Kuznechevsky Who Needs a Strong UN Secretary-General? António Guterres and Mission ImpossibleA. Gorelik NATO: Trump’s BurdenD. Danilov Germany in the Post-Soviet SpaceB. Zaritsky Turkey […]
U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP has inherited large strategic and tactical nuclear arsenals from his predecessor, Barack Obama, and a strategy of “unconditional offensive nuclear deterrence,” which allows for the possibility of a preemptive nuclear strike against practically any country that is not an ally, friend or partner of the United States. The Rich Legacy AS […]
WORLD ISSUES Russia’s Eastern Policy in 2016: Results and ProspectsIgor Morgulov Quo Vadis, Germany? Landmarks of Recent German HistoryV. Vasilyev Crisis Situations in the Mediterranean RegionsFranco Frattini The Yemen Crisis: A Ticking Time Bomb?S. Serebrov ESCAP and Transportation Problems in the Asia-PacificShamshad Akhtar State Sovereignty and Jurisdiction in the Context of International Information SecurityA. Streltsov […]
POST-IMPERIAL and post-Soviet Russia has just started its quest for self-identity. This is neither good nor bad: its new state hypostasis is only twenty-five years old which makes it not an easy task to send “Urbi et orbi” a clear and convincing message about its essence and the optimal ways of its realization. Each U-turn […]
WORLD ISSUES The Russian Track: As Barack Obama Leaves, He Leaves RuinsSergey Ryabkov Ban Ki-moon’s Legacy and Global IssuesV. Churkin Effects of the Unipolar World Concept on European and Global Security SystemsL. Voronkov The U.S. Middle East Policy: Stages and InstrumentsYe. Biryukov The Military Reform in China: Strategic, Political, Organizational, and Administrative AspectsA. Kokoshin EDITOR-IN-CHIEF […]
TODAY’S INTENSE CONFRONTATION between Russia and the West is causing increasing anxiety both among political experts and among ordinary people all over the world. Polemics between the two sides tend to be sharper than propaganda philippics of the Cold War era. 1 The euphoria of the 1990s over the “end of history” with the standoff […]
A PART OF THE WESTERN WORLD, Europe, however, has been very selective about alien cultures and civilizations; not a “melting pot” American style, it is paying dearly for this function imposed on it. The disagreements on the migration issues in the European corridors of power threaten the cohesion of the European Unity.
WORLD ISSUES Our Past and a Secure World Order TodayA. Kelin Yalta, Potsdam and Helsinki: Lessons of History as Reflected in Contemporary Political AgendasV. Yakunin BRICS: Results of the Russian Presidency and Development VectorsA. Lukashik Arctic Security: International Law AspectsA. Moiseev The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Key Points and Potential EffectsG. Kostyunina, V. Baronov EDITOR-IN-CHIEF’S COLUMN An […]
RUSSIAN WORLD Rossotrudnichestvo Turns 90L. Glebova Fifth World Congress of Compatriots Living AbroadK. Klimovsky “The Russian World Means a State of Heart and Mind” (Read this article online for FREE)S. Filatov WORLD ISSUES The Great Geopolitical Revolution: Results So FarK. Brutents U.S. Policy in a Changing WorldA. Kortunov, A. Frolov Transatlantic Partnership Plan: Germany’s PositionB. […]