The conflict in Libya continues to be a key issue for North Africa
The international community’s attention towards the Libyan crisis has diminished in recent times. The situation in Libya has lost its formative role in influencing the relations between the countries in the region. However, the conflict in Libya continues to be a key issue for North Africa.
Denis Mirgorod:
Libya Interregnum
The prospects of a political settlement in the Libyan conflict remains unclear and the root causes for the...
In the modern world, only two countries can be distinguished which combine both significant material potential and their own political philosophy: the US and China
In the modern science of international relations, defining the essential features of modern superpowers has remained a bone of contention. What makes a true superpower stand above the rest? Is there a universal set of traits that distinguishes a few leaders from many outsiders?...
To impact events, it is necessary to understand their logic, and this is where a theory steps in
“There is nothing more practical than a good theory.” [
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] This attitude defined academic inquiry into international relations since the mid-twentieth century. Faculty surveys as well as bibliometric indicators suggest that generalized explanations provide the greatest recognition for a scholar within the community.
Theorists top the lists of researchers
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Will there be a chain reaction of quagmires with the international order collapsing in the end?
It doesn’t take one to be a Nostradamus to predict the general trends in international affairs for 2023 with certainty. This year will be difficult, turbulent and dangerous for all the actors in global politics. In what particular ways, though? What risks are most likely to transpire? Looking back on a multitude of challenging problems we inherited from 2022, we’ll try to highlight those that could be...
An Unwritten Future offers a fresh reassessment of classical realism, an enduring approach to understanding crucial events in the international political arena
An Unwritten Future offers a fresh reassessment of classical realism, an enduring approach to understanding crucial events in the international political arena. Jonathan Kirshner identifies the fundamental flaws of classical realism’s would-be successors and shows how this older, more nuanced and sophisticated method for studying world politics...
Today’s top three challenges Russia has to tackle
The Ukrainian conflict has effectively overhauled the challenges and threats that Russia faces. We have had next to no such precedent in our history. The accumulation of shocks and their cumulative effect can impinge both on the society and on Russia’s statehood. There will be no going back, while scenarios of the future—previously considered highly unlikely—have emerged.
The uniqueness of the threat configuration paradoxically coexists with the...
RIAC Working Paper No. 62 / 2022
RIAC Working Paper No. 62 / 2022
Practices and principles that underpin multilateralism are currently facing multiple challenges and major opposition, including one-sided rhetoric employed by leaders across the globe, a grave crisis of many multilateral organizations and regimes, both global and regional. Politicians are shifting the responsibility for the shortcomings of multilateralism onto one another, blaming their opponents for departing from legitimate multilateral...
... will be able to best exploit the new reality and take advantage of the opportunities that are opening up? And how?
Igor Ivanov:
Rethinking International Security for a Post-Pandemic World
COVID-19 has also left its mark on the current architecture of international relations.
At the turn of the century, it was mired in crisis. The end of the Cold War towards the late 20
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century effectively signaled the beginning of the transition from the bipolar world order established in the wake of the Second ...
No matter how the modern world order “crumbles”, the dimensions of the modern world cannot be reduced to mere security issues
The Russian community of international relations professionals and pundits is strongly influenced by political realism. Being a realist is a good rule of thumb when it comes to mainstream approaches to international affairs. “Enemy” liberalism, “freaky” constructivism,...
... vast assemblage of flavours, highlights and shades of aftertaste processed through the copper alembic of the liberal paradigm rather than pure ethanol as it is. Liberals hold on to the premise that states are well short of being stand-alone actors in international relations, as they are—to different extents—represented by various group interests being in complex interaction with each other. In approaching some foreign policy, liberals will tend to taste the flavours of culture, the highlights ...
