Today, the relations between Russia and the United States are abnormal, irrational, lacking in systemic thinking, clear goal-setting, and acceptable practices
It is clear why the Russia—U.S. Presidential summit is in the limelight of the world community. In the history of international ...
... extracted the method and set aside the obsolete system of thought. It would be inadequate to rely solely on the Primakovian perspective, and the larger matrix of Russian Realism must be rediscovered and revived as the paradigm of world politics today.
Russian realists tend to blame a dilettantish liberalism for the deviation from the great tradition of Western Realism, from Kennan to Kissinger, which they are familiar with. Russian thinking, while understandably rejecting the liberal idealism of Fukuyama et al, has tightly embraced an American ...
... It’s clear that the topic of the crisis of the “liberal” international order has firmly entered the scientific discourse of Russian and foreign analysts.
Andrey Kortunov:
The Inevitable, Weird World
On October 11, 2017,
The New York Times
drew attention ... ... world order” in danger. According to the experts, Trump’s victory dealt a heavy blow to the normative foundations of Western liberalism. The “manifesto” notes the importance of liberal values and institutes for Germany’s prosperity and insists on ...
... circumstances, evolved in response to secular challenges and developed within often rapidly-changing institutional and international settings.
This third volume of the Reset DOC “Russia Workshop” collects a selection of the Dimensions and Challenges of Russian Liberalism conference proceedings, providing a broad set of insights into the Russian liberal experience through a dialogue between past and present, and intellectual and empirical contextualization, involving historians, jurists, political scientists ...
The conclusion is clear: to preserve the liberal world order by all means, to rationalize United States policy, and to isolate Russia and China or make them return to their usual roles. But a return of the old order of post-bipolar times is unlikely
Andrey Kortunov:
Why the World is Not Becoming Multipolar
The organizers of the Munich Security Conference have released their ...
On December 10, London School of Economics under the auspices of Dahrendorf Forum held an international seminar "Quo Vadis Global actors? US, EU, Russia between Liberal Order and Neorealism".
The seminar was attended by experts in theory of international relations from Great Britain, other European countries and the United States.
Russia was represented by Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director ...
A crisis of liberalism does not equal a crisis of the liberal world order
Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
Stephen Colbert
Any discussion of Russian foreign policy that has even a modicum of meaning inevitably begins with a question about the conditions and trends in the world as a whole. Our understanding of this world, our perception of the causal relations between events therein determine ...
Irina Khakamada
, one of Russia’s most prominent female liberal politicians, met RIAC website editor Maria Smekalova to share her views on the future of Russian liberalism, offer her scenario for resolving the Ukraine crisis and unveil the secrets behind negotiating successfully with foreigners.
As an outspoken liberal, how would you define liberalism, which seems quite a vague notion? Do you see any Russia-specific ...
... proposed policies to the needs of time and the unique position of each nation, with due attention given to the needs of the future and of mankind. It must, therefore, stem from philosophy, politics and history
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In Russia, one of the pioneering studies has been the book by V. Vitchevsky “Trade, Customs and Industrial Policies of Russia From Peter the Great to the Modern Day”, published in 1909. In his book, the author employed two terms to describe policies ...