On September 30, 2016
Salvatore Babones
, Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Sydney, delivered at RIAC a lecture on the new world order led by the United States.
He noted that in the second millennium, the entire population of the world is divided into “the American world,” those who oppose it, and those who want to be part of it. Even representatives of the Russian,...
A crisis of liberalism does not equal a crisis of the liberal world order
Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
Stephen Colbert
Any discussion of Russian foreign policy that has even a modicum of meaning inevitably begins with a question about the conditions and trends in the world as a whole. Our understanding ...
... Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, as well as Alexander Gabuev, Chair of Russia in the Asia-Pacific Program at Carnegie Moscow Center and RIAC expert, took part in an expert discussion “Great Powers, Great Challenges: the Evolving World Order.”
Pavel Koshkin "
Russia, China and the US need to work together in 2016
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... made and possible steps that can be taken in future.
The “Age of Politics”
2015 was a year of rapidly unfolding multi-polarity. Multi-polarity has long been the mantra of foreign policy documents and speeches. The idea is that a multi-polar world order is inherently more just and democratic. It is often viewed as an alternative to the unipolar world led by the United States.
But multi-polarity is flawed as well. If the potential of the various players is asymmetrical, and the “rules ...
... the more relevant.
Speaking at the Valdai Discussion Club, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin elaborated on his vision of settling the Syrian crisis. And this vision appears to reflect Russia’s overall approach to creating a new world order. It has to be said that against the backdrop of the numerous declarative, ambiguous and at times contradictory statements that our Western partners have made with regard to Syria, Vladimir Putin’s words were to-the-point, logical and ...
... of land.
This is why the Westphalian system is certainly here to stay. An amazing majority of both Asian and European participants were explicit about this position, not expecting any substantial challenge to state sovereignty as a central concept in world order. Not the common good, not joint development, but classic independence, territorial integrity and non-interference were put in the spotlight, perhaps a reaction to persistent violations thereof in latest history.
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On October 28-30, 2015, RIAC Media and Government Relations Manager Anton Tsvetov was in Beijing at the 160th Bergerdorf Roundtable “New Players – Old Rules? The Global Order in Transition” organized by the
Körber Foundation
and International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
The forum was attended by European politicians and researchers, representatives and top figures of political parties, foreign ministries, international organizations...
Syria and especially Ukraine appear to be inflection points in the trajectory of Russian foreign policy
Ivan Timofeev, who participated in the annual meeting of Valdai International Discussion Club is giving a talk on the outline of future Russian foreign policy.
After the Ukraine crisis and military intervention in Syria, the key principles and ideas underpinning Russian foreign policy are becoming easier to understand.
Against the backdrop of the Ukraine crisis and the military airstrikes in...
On September 30 – October 2, 2015, Belgrade was the venue of the
5th Security Forum
held under the leitmotif “
Can Europe Redefine Itself?
” in view of exacerbation of problems related with Middle East refugees, Ukraine crisis, Islamic radicalism, efficiency of European institutions, the role of the OSCE in conflict settlement including maintenance of peace in the Balkans. The event gathered over 600 participants, among them a Russian delegation invited by the organizers to continue...
On February 5, 2014, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov represented Russia at international conference “The Role of the European Union in Global Re-Ordering: Leadership or Adaptation?” organized in Brussels by the Instituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI) and the Institut d’Etudes Europeennes at Universite libre de Bruxelles.
The event was held within the EU program “Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks” implemented by an
international...