... implicitly or explicitly suggests that the Global South should simply subscribe to all the positions already carved in stone in Washington.
As it was the case in 1990s, the US approach to the Global South is not very different from its approach to US Western allies and partners: both groups of nations appear to be not full-fledged sovereign decision-makers, but rather as disciplined decision-takers with somewhat limited sovereignty. This is not a very appealing vision of the future world order for aspiring nations in the Global South trying to position themselves not as speechless objects, but as vocal subjects of global politics. To cut it short, what works for the time being in Europe or in the Northeast Asia, does not work the ...
... things through—what’s the reason for that fear, what exactly is the threat? You start breaking it down into components; the brain turns on and you simply don’t have time to be afraid.
Oleg Yanovsky:
Diplomatic psychotherapy?
Ivan Timofeev:
Ending Western Domination Is Key to the Emerging World Order. Here’s What Needs to Be Done to Achieve It
Ivan Timofeev:
It’s psychotherapy, its rationalization, a lot of psychology is involved. People then have a completely different working attitude. We have defined what we mean by secondary sanctions....
... Ukraine? Neutrality in order to be able to write its own history, wouldn’t that be this a sensible first step towards a peaceful world order?
What remains is the beautiful sky over East Prussia and the hope that this beautiful land of my ancestors is moving ... ... destiny — namely that of reconciliation, the bridge from Germany and Poland to Russia, a bridge that connects and reconciles West and East.
References and Reading Tipps
Ancel, Jacques (1938): Géographie des frontières, Gallimard.
Banik, Katja (2024): ...
... mankind’s common destiny was put forward, three global initiatives have emerged. But from the outside it may seem that, compared to Western doctrinal documents, they are empty in content. There are a lot of beautiful words and phrases, but it is not quite clear ... ... understand how Chinese culture works? Or is it because China is only at an early stage of shaping its own vision of the future world order?
It’s both. China is surely at an early stage of—if not quite forming its own view of the world order—formalizing ...
... In addition to thorny domestic problems, regional conflicts will develop and become more likely, terrorism, extremism and separatism will easily spread, and the goal of eradicating poverty will become more difficult to achieve.
Ivan Timofeev:
Ending Western Domination Is Key to the Emerging World Order. Here’s What Needs to Be Done to Achieve It
On the other hand, the appetite of great powers to engage in state-building in remote corners of the world is likely to remain low. The whole idea of the state-building assistance has been compromised ...
... 2020s and further elaborate the more general Chinese foreign policy doctrine of "a global community of shared future."
Andrey Kortunov:
Decoding China: GSI and Beijing's International Role
Although the GCI does not directly challenge the Western "rules-based international order" paradigm, it has still faced harsh criticism from the West, similar to the two earlier initiatives. Over the past year, there have been numerous statements arguing that the GCI is fundamentally flawed ...
... may well lead to a complete annihilation of the humankind. Instead, they prefer to go for proxy wars (like the one that the West now wages in Ukraine against Russia) or economic and technological wars (like the one that the United States has launched ... ... Europe, in Asia or in the world at large—is likely to remain uncertain, ambiguous and contested for a long time. Thus, the new world order is unlikely to become a product of another Big Deal of Grand Bargain between major players, it is more likely to emerge ...
... interesting for discussing some common topics within the framework of Franco-Russian relations: issues such as strategic stability, regional conflict resolution, and cyber security. However, at the current stage, French attempts to preserve the generally pro-Western world order, even if with some adjustments, come into fundamental collision with Russia’s commitment to building a real multipolar world.
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La France dans le nouvel ordre européen // Politique étrangère. 1990. Vol. 55, no. 3. p. 503....
... relations, is going through a period of severe stress. Over the last five years, Russia’s share of Indian defense imports went down from 60% to 45% and is likely to shrink even further in the near future. Moscow has to confront the rapid expansion of the Western presence in the Indian arms markets and the current "Made in India" strategy pursued by the Indian leadership. On top of that, there are questions in India about the reliability of Russian weapons, Russia’s compliance with delivery ...
... order by devising a dichotomy between rules and power, “right” and “wrong” development models. However, these same processes of global political fragmentation and structural transformation trigger disintegration, revealing the nature of the Western world order, demonstrating its purely Western-centered limited character coupled with American dominance. What began as a liberal, idealistic project of restructuring the international system under American leadership first mired in contradictions and ...
