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“Regarding Nuclear Tests, I Can Say That If the US Resumes Them, It Will Get a Mirror Response From Our Side”S. Ryabkov WORLD ISSUES Illiberalism in International Relations (FREE content)A. Dugin The Neo-Global World: Past Baggage, Present Challenges, Future ProspectsD. Yevstafyev Apocalypse of Our Time: Servants of the Devil Before the Court of HistoryK. Dolgov […]
REALISTS believe that human nature is inherently flawed (the legacy of Hobbes’s anthropological pessimism and, on an even deeper level, the legacy of the Christian idea of the Fall, or lapsus in Latin) and cannot be fundamentally corrected, which means that selfishness, predation, and violence are impossible to eradicate. This leads to the conclusion that man (who, according to Hobbes, is a wolf to another man) can only be restrained and regulated by means of a strong state. The state is inevitable and is the bearer of supreme sovereignty. At the same time, the predatory and egoistic nature of man is projected onto the state; therefore, the nation-state has its own interests. These interests take into account only their own state, while the will to violence and greed mean war is always a possibility. Realists believe that this has always been and always will be.
Russia and Brazil: A Friendship That Has Stood the Test of TimeS. Lavrov WORLD ISSUES BRICS as a Symbol of the New WorldA. Davydenko The Fate of the State in a Changing World (FREE content!)V. Yegorov Evolution of the World Order and Russia’s Ideas About the Outside WorldA. Bogaturov, O. Lebedeva Apocalypse of Our Time: […]
THE main phenomenon of the social mainstream is the institution of the state and its evolution (“shrinking”), associated with the increased activity of civil society and a reevaluation of the role of the market. Postmodernists have no faith in the future of the state. They presuppose that institutions of social organization will be replaced by […]
“The West Wants to Eliminate Our Country as a Significant Geopolitical Competitor”S. Lavrov VIEWPOINT Incivility in Diplomacy as a Reflection of the Crisis in Foreign Policy CultureV. Chumakov WORLD ISSUES Emerging Contours of a New, Just World (FREE content!)B. Gryzlov, P. Frolov, V. Vanke Strategies Race Between Russia and the West: An Adaptability Test?A. Kramarenko […]
THIRTY-TWO years ago, an event took place that American political scientist Francis Fukuyama claimed marked the “end of history.” It was argued that the disappearance of the Soviet Union from the world political scene and the end of the Soviet socialist project meant that there was no socioeconomic alternative to a liberal capitalist world order […]
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF INTERVIEWS There Is No Common Denominator in Russian-American Relations (FREE content!)S. Ryabkov Russia and China Need a Good and Diversified RelationshipA. Denisov WORLD ISSUES Western-Proposed Rules That Would Bypass the UN and Other Universal Bodies Threaten Chaos in CyberspaceA. Smirnov, V. Bulva Proactive Digital Diplomacy in Contemporary International RelationsM. Bazlutskaya Shared Challenges, Shared Responsibilities: […]
Armen Oganesyan, editor-in-chief, International Affairs: Sergey Alexeyevich [Ryabkov], we realize how busy you are, so we are particularly grateful to you for finding time to answer our questions. Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved an updated version of the Foreign Policy Concept, and everyone is curious to know what makes it different from the previous […]
International Affairs Vol. 69, No. 3, 2023 WORLD ISSUES Nonpolarity: An Intermediate Stage on the Road to Multipolarity?A. Dmitrichenko Priorities of Modern Russian Diplomacy: Between the UN and a “Rules-Based Order”O. Lebedeva Russia Will Lead the Fight for a Just International Economic OrderA. Baklanov Missiles as an International Security Problem: A Mad Race or Cooperation […]
THE events of recent years have clarified a lot; the West has taken off its mask to demonstrate to all that the containment of post-Cold War Russia has always been its strategy. It wants to dominate our country in disregard of the basic principles of the UN Charter and the results of World War II. The […]