... trade
, these ties seemingly have a significant potential to be filled with economic, humanitarian or scientific-technological content as well as be fruitful across the political domain. The independence in foreign policies of Russia and Algeria, both countries’ own approaches to the most important problems on the international agenda and a readiness to actively participate in their solution make it extremely important to drive dialogue between the two nations: not only at the political but also at ...
On scenarios and conditions for the development of relations between Moscow and Pyongyang
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to North Korea, or the DPRK, which has been under discussion since January 2024, could not only be perceived as a reciprocal visit after the North Korean leader’s visit to the Russian Far East in the fall of 2023 but also as an extremely important step in bolstering relations between Moscow and ...
... regimes, bilateral and multilateral treaties, and other elements of the international system? What is likely to survive and what is not? When should the humankind hit rock bottom, and what is this rock bottom likely to be?
Roots of the Problem
Andrey Kortunov:
The International System between Crisis and Revolution
The world of 2035 will be different from the world of 2024. The global population will add another billion, growing from eight billion today to almost nine, but the overall growth rates will ...
Almost all of the nations that recently joined BRICS are seriously competing with the “old-timers” of the association, claiming a permanent seat on the UN Security Council
The
expansion
of BRICS with the accession of Egypt, Iran, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia starting on January 1, 2024 will make it possible to use this format for deepening practical interaction with the new members on the UN ...
The war in Gaza is far from over, but whatever the ceasefire or truce agreements, the question remains: what next?
The terrorist action undertaken by Hamas on October 7, 2023, unprecedented in its scale and brutality, and the equally unprecedented Israeli retaliation, which claimed lives of many thousands of Palestinians to result in a major humanitarian catastrophe, shocked the world ...
... stage, then their influence on the fate of humanity or even their own is rapidly declining.
The victims of general revisionism are the powers that built a strategy based on static methods to ensure their interests. Now these are, first of all, the countries of continental Europe, grouped within the European Union, and most of the states of Southeast Asia, united within the ASEAN community. It is difficult to say who will benefit most. It is very likely that the current generation of active observers ...
... called immediately for measured response in full accordance with international humanitarian law, respecting the international requirements for treatment of hospitals, women, children, other civilians.
And as a first step, we suggested to the Security Council the draft resolution calling for immediate ceasefire, cessation of hostilities for humanitarian purposes. It was not supported, first of all, by the United States. Then the developing countries, members of the Security Council, proposed a softer ...
For more than 30 years, Washington has failed to build a just order, which is why we are now experiencing unprecedented crises
The wars in Ukraine and in Gaza are very different; yet, they are definitely linked as two flashing indicators of how the change in the world order is proceeding. Regrettably but unsurprisingly, the relatively peaceful previous ...
The recognition of interdependence between security and development suggests that China is likely to become more active in global and regional security matters than it has been ever before
The Global Security Initiative (GSI) was announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping in April of 2022. Predictably, the initiative was brushed off by the Western political mainstream as yet another manifestation of the Chinese "charm offensive" in the Global South with very little substance....
... world politics as among the important, if not the most important achievements of the 20th century, which otherwise left us with few good memories.
However, now that the international order has entered the phase of its most serious renewal in several hundred years, the question of these institutions’ applicability in solving the most complex problems of a bilateral and multilateral nature is once again becoming extremely relevant. Moreover, modern international institutions are a continuation and ...