Despite the crisis of multilateral diplomacy, preserving its supporting structures seems necessary
After the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s, new and extremely broad opportunities for multilateral diplomacy opened up. It could be understood as the joint actions of leading powers, regional centres of power and small countries in the field of resolving security issues and responding to common challenges. UN, as the only universal ...
Great powers claim to be great because they cannot afford the luxury of pure situational opportunism, typical for many other international actors
The sudden fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, as far as one can judge, came as a complete surprise for all external actors, Moscow including. Of course, many Russian area studies experts for ...
On November 25, 2024, members of the UN Security Council held an informal Arria-formula meeting on the topic “The Humanitarian Impact of Unilateral Coercive Measures”
On November 25, 2024, members of the UN Security Council held an informal Arria-formula meeting on the topic “The ...
Despite the importance and urgency of the issues, the principles formulated in the GDC are biased and unbalanced
At the Summit of the Future held in New York on September 22–23, 2024, UN Member States adopted the GDC as one of the annexes to Pact for the Future. The GDC addresses Internet governance, bridging the digital divide, international rules ...
2024 may become a historical turning point for the BRICS group
Recently the BRICS group has become the flavor of the political season. The ongoing hype around BRICS arguably started In August of 2023, when at its 15th summit in South Africa’s Johannesburg the group decided to go ahead with doubling the number of its members. The room for further enlargement still remains quite spacious: today we can see ...
The international community has to continue its search not for an elusive general consensus on the desirable world order, but rather for attainable compromises on specific matters
Large-scale high-level events at the United Nations (UN) seldom generate immediate practical ...
... 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 ...