The Russo-Indo interplay serves to balance Russia’s relations with China and India’s with the West’s, which prevents either from becoming disproportionately dependent on their other partners
Last month’s
Multipolarity Forum
in Moscow, which coincided with the
Second Congress of the International Russophile Movement
, brought together hundreds of like-minded thinkers from across the world. They convened to discuss the most effective ways to accelerate ...
Multipolarity is usually understood in Paris not as the existence of several roughly equal centers of power but as a joint solution to global problems under the unconditional priority of Western interests
Late in August this year, President Emmanuel ...
Why BRICS has become the hero of the day, while the G7 remained at the back seat
On August 24, 2023, the BRICS summit in Johannesburg came to an end, but its overall significance is yet to come to grips with, as too many variables are at stake. Still, it is already possible to put the first emotions aside and assess the unconditional consequences.
Ivan Kopytsev, Ivan Loshkaryov:
How Can BRICS Take Africa Aboard?
The first and foremost thing that only a lazy person failed to talk about was the...
Have emerging powers got the resources to reshape the world order?
Asynchronous multipolarity: governing parameters and directions of development
Since the late 1990s, multipolarity has been a key focus in Russia’s foreign policy doctrine. A more balanced world has been seen as a counterweight to the global hegemony of the US ...
The hope for a new type of international relations based on mutual benefit, unfortunately, is unlikely to materialise in the foreseeable future
The People's Republic of China has appointed a new foreign minister. Qin Gang, a career diplomat who went through all the key stages of the PRC’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has become the head of the Foreign Ministry. His predecessor Wang Yi was appointed head of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee. The new foreign...
On November 15, 2022, Al-Zaytouna, the Lebanese Center for Studies & Consultations, held an online international expert panel discussion on multipolarity and the shifting alliances in the Middle East
On November 15, 2022, Al-Zaytouna, the Lebanese Center for Studies & Consultations, held an online international expert panel discussion on multipolarity and the shifting alliances in the Middle ...
The European-Chinese diagonal in the geometry of world politics is no less important than U.S.-China, Russian-American or Russian-Chinese relations
European-Chinese relations have been on pause since the end of 2020. The politicisation of interaction, caused both by objective disproportions in the development of trade and investment partnerships, and by the desire of Brussels to control the relations of member states with China, became the main trend in the development of dialogue in the second...
At all costs, India wants to prevent any sudden disruptions that could destabilize the global systemic transition to multipolarity, lead to one of the bi-multipolar superpowers becoming a unipolar hegemon, and thus create the conditions for coercing India into becoming their “junior partner”.
The Bi-Multipolar Intermediary Phase
International Relations are in ...
RIAC Working Paper No. 62 / 2022
RIAC Working Paper No. 62 / 2022
Practices and principles that underpin multilateralism are currently facing multiple challenges and major opposition, including one-sided rhetoric employed by leaders across the globe, a grave crisis of many multilateral organizations and regimes, both global and regional. Politicians are shifting the responsibility for the shortcomings of multilateralism onto one another, blaming their opponents for departing from legitimate multilateral...
... Deputy Defense Minister A. Fomin envisioned when he shared his thoughts about this with RT earlier in the month, but the present analysis attempted to compellingly make the case that this emerging scenario will represent a much more complex version of multipolarity than the current one. Trump’s U.S.-Chinese trade war, which in turn provoked the new Cold War between these two great powers, combined with the black swan event of a World War C to inspire the U.S. “deep state” to pragmatically recalibrate ...
