... agreeing to a meeting of the Bilateral Consultative Commission. Antonov pointed out that "first of all, it is noteworthy how quickly this annual report has been prepared." "Its previous versions, which did not contain ‘sensational’ accusations, were usually published in April or even later," he added.
"This year, against the backdrop of a frenzied confrontation with Russia initiated by the West, the Administration has been clearly eager to throw at us yet another set of unfounded ...
... the crisis are obvious and simple enough: exclusion of a group of four major powers — Germany, Italy, Japan and Soviet Russia — from what we would now call “global governance”. The monopolisation by the three victorious powers (Britain, the USA and France) that arose after the First World War of all possibilities for influencing the status quo made the emerging world order immanently unjust, and ruled out the possibility of changing it peacefully. The result was the World War II, and now ...
... military theorist Karl Clausewitz, who famously said that war is the continuation of politics by other means, namely violent ones, strategy meant military strategy, which was strictly subordinated to politics as the highest category. Subsequently, the usage of these words has changed. More and more often, strategy began to be understood as higher politics, while politics often began to mean political tactics.
Having dealt with the concepts, we can now formulate a really important question: what is ...
It is premature to talk about Bangladesh’s unequivocal entry into the orbit of Chinese influence
Bangladesh has been boasting the highest economic growth rates among the countries of South Asia over the past 10 years. The nation’s GDP per capita
has reached
USD 2,500, a number that surpasses those of the neighboring India and Pakistan. Dhaka is keen on fostering relations with Beijing, New Delhi and Washington concurrently. However, amidst the ongoing tectonic shifts in the global political system...
... qualitatively different. By attacking the South, North Korea sought to establish communist power across the country. When the US troops and their allies took Pyongyang, Seoul already began to plan the unification under their rule. Neither the USSR nor the USA set as their goal the revision of the system of international relations, which they (together with Great Britain) agreed upon at the conferences in Yalta and Potsdam (1945) and which suited both superpowers quite well. It was only a question of pushing ...
The 65th anniversary of the significant arrangement in the history of Soviet-U.S. relations
To exist in the Era of Deeds and to stay elevated, alert
ain’t so easy, alas....
Joseph Brodsky, 1969
The echo of a Beautiful Era
January 27, 2023 will mark the 65
th
anniversary of
the Lacy-Zarubin Agreement
, one of the most significant treaties in the history of U.S.-Soviet relations. From 1958 to 1973, this first-of-its-kind agreement governed exchanges in science, culture, technology, and education...
... Ukraine), the destabilising actions of external forces, including around Taiwan, and the artificial division of the world into autocracies and democracies. However, the new minister is also in no hurry to assign guilt. There are no harsh statements or accusations targeting anyone in the article, although in the text one can trace a neat hint that the problems mentioned did not arise from scratch. Qin Gang is fundamentally tactful, although an attentive reader understands the direction of thought perfectly....
A View into the Future
Nobody has any doubts that what is happening now in Ukraine is not simply a regional conflict but a test for the current international hierarchy. Predictions of the outcome would be woefully premature in any case, but one can try to imagine which principles may form the foundation of a future system of global co-existence and which will be relegated to the past. The following is an edited excerpt from the Valdai Club report
“A World Without Superpowers”
prepared by a team...
We can talk about the relative novelty of the sanctions in terms of the number and intensity of the measures applied. However, for a number of qualitative characteristics, they contain patterns that have been well studied in the past
The “sanctions tsunami” against Russia is rightly considered unprecedented since the end of the Cold War. Strictly speaking, it is very difficult to find a suitable analogue of the current situation even in earlier periods. Despite the fact that the sanctions’ target...
As conflict grows over the structure of the future international order, the tension between context and practice can grow as much as it shrinks
The dramatic events of 2022, centred on the military-political conflict between Russia and the West over the Ukrainian issue, are a vivid example of the interaction of context and practice in international politics. The global context, within which one cannot help but consider the most acute manifestation of the current clash of interests, is the end of...
