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Imperial Chutzpah in World Politics as a Factor in International Relations Today IMPERIAL chutzpah as a phenomenon of international relations has been known since antiquity. It stems from the fact that, as the great Ancient Greek philosopher Thucydides put it back in the 5th century BC: “The strong do what they can and the weak […]
Greetings to Current and Former Russian Foreign Ministry Staff on Diplomats’ DayVladimir Putin Message of Greetings on Diplomats’ DaySergey Lavrov WORLD ISSUES Crisis of Trust: The Search for New Approaches to Nuclear Arms ControlP. Sevostyanov, V. Mizin Scylla and Charybdis: The Self-Determination of Peoples Versus the Territorial Integrity of StatesA. Kagramanov Does the UN Internet […]
ACCORDING to many of our international relations experts, a presidential decree to approve a new edition of the Foreign Policy Concept of Russia will become one of the most important novelties of 2022. It will be the sixth doctrinal document in our country’s recent history: Previous versions of the key diplomatic “manifesto” were issued in […]
THE APPROACHING 75th anniversary of the end of World War II gave a new lease of life to the so-called “memory wars.” On September 19, 2019, the European Parliament passed a resolution “On the importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe”1 that, among other things, shifted the burden of equal responsibility for World War […]
WORLD ISSUES Escalation Around Taiwan: Facets of the ConflictS. Trush Practical Results and New Horizons of Eurasian IntegrationM. Myasnikovich, V. Kovalyov Cooperation Between the Amazonian Countries Amid Current Global ChallengesYa. Burlyay, B. Nekrasov RUSSIA AND OTHER NATIONS Politics of Memory in Russian-Japanese Relations: Resolving Differences of OpinionN. Bondarenko The Indo-Pacific as a Geopolitical Construct: India’s […]
IN HIS classic book On War, the eminent 19th century German military theorist Carl von Clausewitz generalized the experience of the Napoleonic wars: “The art of war … makes War of all branches of human activity the most like a gambling game.”1 It seems that since the time when Clausewitz defined war as “the continuation […]
WORLD ISSUES Russia, the World’s New Breadbasket, Has a Special MissionV. Rakhmanin Transport Corridors: Geopolitical AspectsV. Yegorov, V. Shtol Promoting the Greater Eurasian Partnership Initiative: Convergence of the Interests of States, Businesses, and International InstitutionsK. Barsky, S. Krasilnikov, S. Mikhnevich Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications and the Freedom of Movement for Workers in the EU […]
ON DECEMBER 8, 1991, the heads of three Union republics – Boris Yeltsin (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic), Leonid Kravchuk (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic), and Stanislav Shushkevich (Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic) – signed the Belavezha Accords, dissolving the Soviet Union.1 That document was unprecedented in terms of international practice and its socioeconomic consequences for the once […]
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 […]