... is the perceived restoration of a unipolar world nothing more than a delusion created by the efforts of skillful illusionists from the White House and the State Department?
The return of the unipolar world?
Andrey Kortunov:
A New Western Cohesion and World Order
Most of the current talk about the resurgence of Pax Americana is in one way or another related to the unfolding conflict between Moscow and the collective West. There is a broad consensus in the expert community today that the US is the main ...
... international stability and implementation of verbal assurances on non-expansion given to the Soviet leadership by NATO’s leaders? The same applies to the well-known Russian demands made in December 2021.
Andrey Kortunov:
A New Western Cohesion and World Order
Whatever can be said about the benefits of UN’s specialized programs and projects, it is also clear that the crisis that has engulfed the key area of this global structure’s responsibility will inevitably manifest itself in other areas,...
... for a significant number of states in the Global South to join the Western consensus? The author’s analysis aims to outline a possible interdisciplinary discussion that could provide answers to these and other questions.
A New Western Cohesion and World Order
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The future international order from a Russian perspective
The world order is changing after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The geopolitical competition and its rules too. Timofei Bordachev, Program Director Valdai Discussion Club, shares his views on how the liberal world order has broken down, the Western’s ...
... of Institut Montaigne, a French cross-party center for applied political research.
It was a closed trust-based meeting taking into account the long-term cooperation between RIAC and Institut Montaigne. The meeting focused on the challenges of a new world order formation after the end of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
Russian side was represented at the event by Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Ivan Timofeev, RIAC Director of Programs, who spoke at the event.
... 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.
However, something quite different is happening in the case of Russia. It has not been isolated
The fighting in Ukraine has changed the coordinate system in world politics, forcing all countries to take their position on the current events. The picture clearly shows the fundamental processes that are unfolding in the world.
If one takes as a criterion the perception of the Russian special operation proper, the sympathy is largely on the side of Ukraine. The image of a sovereign country attacked...
... nerve of relations between Russia and the West, and largely sets the tone for security policy in the Euro-Atlantic region. It also has many global implications. In the ideological sphere, it is increasingly presented as a struggle between the liberal world order and the “rebellion of the discontented”. It is Russia that today has assumed the role of the vanguard of such a rebellion, openly challenging its Western rivals.
The use of the concept of rebellion here is not accidental. The West is promoting ...
... “junior partner”.
The Bi-Multipolar Intermediary Phase
International Relations are in the midst of accelerated, compressed, and profound changes as everything chaotically transitions from the former U.S.-led unipolar system to an emerging Multipolar World Order. Experts debate exactly when this process began, but many agree that its most significant milestones thus far were the 2008 financial crisis, the first Ukrainian Crisis from 2013-2014 that resulted in Crimea’s democratic reunification with ...
... countries—including China, India, Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria—will have to somehow compete with each other for the most favorable terms for their subsequent entry into the global core.
Andrey Kortunov:
Restoration, Reformation, Revolution? Blueprints for the World Order after the Russia-Ukraine conflict
In this renewed unipolarity, Russia will be thrown back to the positions it had 30 years ago, just after the collapse of the Soviet Union. But Moscow will find itself in an even more difficult situation, because ...
