...
Revising cultural norms
has become a cultural norm in and of itself, deepening divisions in modern polarized societies, primarily in the U.S., but also in Old Europe [Semenenko 2023: 27-35].
Yang Xiaotong:
“Light of the World” No More. China and Russia Should Help Restore Multipolarity in the Middle East
Another curious phenomenon is associated with the new agenda. In the 20
th
century, the left championed progress, advocating faster economic growth, rapid technological advancement and better social welfare. Now the ideas ...
...
Biden warned the U.S. would be reevaluating its relations with Saudi Arabia
.
Riyadh’s willingness to spite Washington and pursue closer ties with Moscow can be attributed to
Mohammed bin Salman’s personal feud with Biden
and the endorsement of multipolarity, but it should not be interpreted as siding with Russia. Riyadh is careful to strike a balance between Washington and Moscow, as it remains concerned about Iran’s growing military capability and influence in the region despite the Saudi–Iranian rapprochement. Although Moscow has been careful to ...
... can a world order be established in this situation?
The most popular idea is multipolarity. But multipolarity is not an order. Multipolarity is a certain reality. Moreover, the theoretical literature is increasingly questioning the relevance of poles as ... ... pole was invented in America in the 1970s, but today the situation has changed.
Under these circumstances, the advantage of Russia and China is that our two nations are indispensable and necessary links in international relations, as the history of the ...
... Russo-Indo interplay serves to simultaneously balance Russia’s relations with China and India’s with the West’s, which prevents either from becoming disproportionately dependent on their other partners and thus risk a reversion back to Sino-U.S. bi-multipolarity, which only benefits those superpowers. If Russia became dependent on China, India might then become dependent on the U.S. to maintain the balance of power, and vice versa if India became dependent on the U.S. first.
Their special and privileged strategic partnership therefore keeps tri-multipolarity ...
... Washington losing its grip on dominance, to a more just and pluralistic system. This new dawn was supposed to rely, on the one hand, on the fundamental role of the UN and, on the other, on the authority and sovereignty of leading great powers, including Russia itself.
The idea of multipolarity has gained traction among many large countries, such as India and China. Even Western experts haven’t dismissed the possibility. In a way, it has been slowly morphing into an idealized picture of a future world order.
Ivan Timofeev:
A ...
... People’s Republic ultimately becomes the “new hegemon”.
Both potential outcomes are regarded as disadvantageous from the perspective of Indian policymakers, who wisely concluded that their most reliable partner in the global systemic transition to multipolarity is Russia, with whom their Great Power shares grand strategic interests. Neither wants to become “junior partners” of either bi-multipolar superpower, nor do they want the other to do so either. For instance, without India preemptively averting the scenario ...
... largest developing (“Third World”) nation aims to consolidate its leadership over the Global South through win-win BRI deals that lead to a
Community of Common Destiny
.
Concluding Thoughts
Nobody seems to know for sure what sort of the NWO exactly Russian 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 ...
... are equal partners both in international affairs and in bilateral relations. Multilateralism is consistent with Russia’s diplomatic ideology as well. Russia itself is a supporter of multilateralism and takes it as the banner of Russian diplomacy. Russia proposes that the future multipolarity should have a just and democratic character and that it should not be based solely on the balance of power, but on the interaction of national interests, patterns, cultures and traditions. This can be interpreted as a moral demand of Russia ...
...? "Globalization" refers to the collapse of an alternative and parallel socialist system, and the incorporation of Russia and China in the world economy, which is essentially capitalist in character; a capitalist world economy. The problem, ... ... globalization or Alt-globalization?’ as I call it, or ‘Asymmetric Globalization, Anti-Globalization or Alt-Globalization?’
Multipolarity
Andrey Kortunov:
One More Time on Greater Europe and Greater Eurasia
There are two conceptual problems which have ...
... complexity of pole consolidation
Valery Mikhailenko:
For Whom the Bell Tolls: A Note on John J. Mearsheimer’s Article on the Collapse of the Liberal International Order
What is a “pole” or a “center of power” in a multipolar world as seen by Russian advocates of multipolarity? Not every state in the world or even a coalition of states can claim to be a separate “pole” in the international system. Some authors believe that no state can be a “pole” but only a “self-sufficient civilization”: “A pole ...
