... remains to be seen. This art requires a lot of patience, empathy, stamina and vision—the qualities of statecraft, which are always in deficit.
No Grand Bargain
Is it feasible to imagine leading global players reaching a strategic agreement on the fundamentals of the new world order (a new Grand Bargain) at some point between now and 2035? If the answer is yes, then who should be involved in such an arrangement and in what specific form could it be codified? If the answer is no, is it possible for autonomous political ...
... relations on the basis of other fundamental principles.
Amidst a political stalemate on the UN platform, Russian foreign policy-making keeps paving its way through the maze of rethinking the changes in the international situation and the content of the new world order. Until recently, the basic guiding message, which sounded from Smolensk Square, was very clear and simple in its wording: We are breaking off with the West and moving towards the non-West. For the West is “the territory of evil”, while the non-West ...
... the 18th to 19th centuries. Historical analogies are not appropriate here. The new international system will neither resemble the last European balance of power politics, nor the bipolar international order of the Cold War period, and even less so the unipolar liberal world order existing since 1991. This is all the more true given that Western countries have not demonstrated the required flexibility to put up with different ideas about values adopted in other states. Should they show greater signs of acceptance, it ...
... Embassy of Brazil in Russia, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with a group of senior foreign diplomats, including the ambassadors of Egypt, Mexico, and South Africa.
The following issues were addressed during the meeting: the future world order, including the prospects for the United Nations reform process, food and energy security, institutional development of the G20, etc. The meeting was moderated by Rodrigo de Lima Baena Soares, Brazilian Ambassador to Russia.
... Russia to the highest degree. This narrative, however, is at odds with the Western mainstream media mantra about “Russia’s hostile and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.” Will U.S./EU audience one day realize what in fact went wrong?
Andrey Kortunov:
Restoration, Reformation, Revolution? Blueprints for the World Order after the Russia-Ukraine conflict
This war would not have occurred if all parties had negotiated properly and prudently. Even in 2021, the US and Russia could have agreed on key issues such as the non-enlargement of NATO to Ukraine and the ...
... challenges and on international rules, norms, and regimes should be developed. In this way, major powers and rising powers can work together to manage the risk of armed conflict and create a more inclusive system of global governance.
The Future of World Order
Discussion Paper Series on Managing Global Disorder No. 1
, June 2020, published by the Council on Foreign Relations
Globalization has shaped world affairs for many decades, but the dynamics of the globalization process have turned out more complicated and less linear than many experts anticipated in the late ...