... expansion.
Security systems are macro-level constructs, but security itself is concrete. If specific security issues cannot be resolved, the security system loses its meaning. In this particular era, marked by frequent armed conflicts and a chaotic international order, the practical path to building an international security system lies in addressing concrete problems.
Julia Melnikova:
Eurasian Security as a Communicative Practice: Tasks for Russia and China
Undoubtedly, the foremost priority is to extinguish the flames of war, bring an end to ongoing conflicts, and prevent the emergence of new armed confrontations. While wars continue to rage and parties remain locked in combat, the establishment ...
Multipolarity, Economic globalization, and International order
Sino-Russian international cooperation revolves around a number of core concepts, among which multipolarity, globalization, and international order-building occupy a prominent place. The consensus between the two countries on these concepts constitutes an ...
... non-unipolar world scenario.
Zhao Huasheng, Andrey Kortunov:
The Coming Bipolarity and Its Implications: Views from China and Russia
As Amitav Acharya predicts, non-unipolarity will not be chaotic and insecure. Quite the opposite, the author believes, ... ... of American World Order
, Acharya believes that “no major Western analyst...accepts that the U.S. decline might be good for international order either in general or in specific areas such as development, governance, and international justice.”
Looking ...
... compounded by the resurgence of Russia, which is once again a great power, although clearly a weak one economically. With the rise of China and Russia’s comeback, the international system has become multipolar, which is a death knell for the liberal international order. Neither China nor Russia has become a liberal democracy. With or without China, the liberal international order was destined to fail, because it was fatally flawed at birth. Even if the international system had remained unipolar, the liberal world order would have devolved ...