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.
GEOPOLITICS AND SECURITY Proceedings of the Ninth Moscow Conference on International Security International Obligations with Respect to Nuclear Arms LimitationA.A. Novikov, S.A. Medvedkov MILITARY ART Use of Airborne Assault Subunits in Modern Military ConflictsS.N. Volyk, M.P. Berendeyev, I.A. Sukorev Factors in Achieving Victory in Future Military ConflictsV.B. Zarudnitsky Supremacy at Sea: Win and HoldI.Ya. Petrenko, […]
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.
Does Warsaw’s EU demarche indicate a looming Polexit?
Current Digest of the Russian Press, Letter From the Editors, Volume 73, Number 42
The constant calls from European politicians to decide on a common strategy on Russia are evidence that so far the EU has only disparate principles concerning Russia, but it has not defined a long-term goal.
Current Digest of the Russian Press, Letter From the Editors, Volume 73, Number 41
CONTENTS The Biden Administration’s Russia PolicyS. Ryabkov WORLD ISSUES The “Strategic Triangle” and EuropeV. Batyuk Iran: New Conflict ConfluencesA. Baklanov The Climate Ahead of Us: How Energy Preferences Will ChangeP. Sevostyanov Uzbekistan’s Strategy for Building Greater Trans-Regional ConnectivityA. Nematov, A. Karimov VIEWPOINT The Ideologization of America’s Foreign Policy Strategy (Read this article online for FREE)K. […]
US PRESIDENT Abraham Lincoln [purportedly] said: “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”1 It seems that the Americans have been faltering in recent years, wittingly or unwittingly making fateful mistakes that are having an ever-growing impact on the geopolitical situation of […]
POLITICS Challenges and Prospects for the DPRK: Forecast for 2021 (Read this article online for FREE)K. Asmolov, L. Zakharova The Development of Taiwan’s Position on the Rights to the Islands and Waters of the South China SeaA. Dikarev ECONOMICS Spatial Development of Priamurye Regions: The Social AspectM. Fomin, V. Bezverbny, I. Seleznev, Ye. Lukashenko, N. […]