A Scary Tale for the permanent members of the UN Security Council
Tensions in Syria continued to escalate throughout 2019. Hostilities were stepped up again throughout the country and the conflict’s total toll approached a million. A new wave of Syrian refugees swept through Turkey and flooded Europe. Russia blocked US and British resolutions on enforcing peace on Damascus in the UN Security Council nine times.
Eventually, the Western countries accused Moscow of deliberately subverting the Security...
... Multilateral Dialogue is a high-level experts’ meeting focused on current issues of world politics, the role of China in the system of international relations, mechanisms for prevention and settlement of global and regional crises, and ways of improving global governance. Under this year’s theme “Global Trends and China in the Coming Decade”, the leading international experts have discussed possible consequences of China’s rise against the backdrop of the ongoing transformation ...
Strengthening the Role of Non-State Actors
Of the two possible scenarios for the evolution of global governance mechanisms, i.e. the weakening or strengthening the role of non-state actors, the second appears more likely. Under this scenario, support for the continued international expansion of Russian businesses, and the establishment of independent ...
... space. Economic interests and economic instruments to promote its political interests are becoming an increasingly important element of Russian foreign policy. Its economization is taking place and methods of influence associated with instruments of global governance are being explored.
With the emergence of the Russian Federation as an international actor in 1991, against the backdrop of a transformation in social systems, the content and forms of Russia’s foreign policy have been and continue ...
Regular symposium “Future of Global Governance: a View from the U.S.A., Russia, China and India” was held in Beijing under the auspices of the Carnegie Corporation of New York to gather experts on financial and economic risks, world policy and international relations.
Russia ...
Foreign opinion
The Great Recession that beset in 2008 and the ongoing European sovereign debt crisis pose serious challenges to global financial institutions. In this exclusive interview for the Russian Council
Daniel W. Drezner
, Professor of International Politics at Tufts University, assesses the effectiveness of global financial structures during the 2008 crisis and talks about the future of the global economic system.
Interviewee:
Daniel W. Drezner
, Professor of International Politics, Tufts...
