Prepare for the Worst and Strive for the Best. Russia’s and China’s Perceptions of Developments in International Security

... international community? Andrey Kortunov: It would be wrong to argue that the end of the cold war did not generate any peace dividends. I am old enough to remember early 1990s... ... realities—the Paris Charter, the Conventional Forces in Europe Agreement (CFE), the NATO-Russia Founding Act, and so on. There was a surge of trade, investments, tourism and civil society interaction between the East and the West. Unfortunately, it turned out that the two sides had very different perceptions about very fundamental dimensions of international security and global governance. In the West, they assumed that the future...