Is international law in a crisis? How should new global political processes be regulated? What are the rights and obligations of non-state actors in the international arena? An attempt to answer these questions was made during the meeting of scholars, practicing international lawyers and experts in world politics and economics that took place on October 23 at MGIMO-University. Co-organized by RIAC, the session brought together 20 experts from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation...
Interview
Russia’s foreign policy has been in the center of world attention since the country emerged as a great power. In his book
Russia and the West from Alexander to Putin: Honor in International Relations
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Andrei Tsygankov
, Professor at the Department of Political ...
Resume:
Tendencies will continue – a geopolitical shift towards Eurasia and the Asia Pacific Region; symbolic ‘sovereignization’ of Russia and its further distancing from the U.S. and Europe; and the erosion of a foreign policy consensus. The fourth edition of Putin’s foreign policy will most likely differ significantly from the previous three.
Russia has pursued a multi-vector foreign policy since 2000, when Vladimir Putin began his first term as Russian ...
... priority for the Russian-African partnership is bound to increase
Russia has officially declared promoting relations with Africa a priority goal. Assurances made by Russian officials in their statements that Africa is “in the mainstream of Russia's foreign policy” have not been substantiated by systematic practical activities, and the development of relations between Russia and Africa has so far nothing to boast about.
Maintaining mutually beneficial Russian-African political, economic, trade ...
The Economization of Russia’s Foreign Policy
By restoring its economic and financial potential since 2000, Russia has begun to move away from a passive, reflexive position with respect to the economic and financial realities and institutions of the international community. Initially,...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, just back from his first meeting with his new American counterpart, John Kerry, sat for a wide-ranging interview in March with
Foreign Policy
Editor in Chief Susan B. Glasser in Moscow, holding forth on everything from why Americans can no longer adopt Russian babies to how come Russia and China team up so much at the United Nations.
Susan Glasser,
Foreign Policy
editor in ...
Challenges and Opportunities for Russia
Because of rapidly changing processes taking place across the Middle East, we divide the 8-year period reviewed here into two equal parts, 2012-2016 and 2016-2020, in order to identify both short-term and mid-term prospects for these countries. To be sure, this in no way means that this is anything more than an arbitrary line dividing the two periods.
The last ten years have been a time of serious turmoil in the region, seeing the rise of Islamic radicalism...
Every American president since Harry Truman has announced a doctrine reflecting the priorities of each White House occupant. In his State of the Union address to Congress in February 2013, Barack Obama set out his priorities. Globally, Obama intends to put the United States at the head of two giant economic blocks – the Transatlantic and Trans-Pacific Partnerships. This should ensure Washington’s leadership in a polycentric system of international relations.
Simultaneously, Obama –...
... mechanism. By early 2010s, the Euro-Atlanticism crisis rose to surface. A renaissance of transatlantic relations began in earnest in Europe.
First, France under President Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-2012) abandoned the concept of Gaullism as the basis for foreign policy. The return of France to the NATO military organization (2009), the signing of UK-France Summit declaration (2010), the Libyan war (2011) and the UK-France communiqué on Syria (2012) proved that Paris was learning the part of a younger ...
Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov discusses the necessity of Russia’s independent, multi-vector foreign policy. According to the official, Russia’s foreign policy is not conservative in seeking international stability; rather, it aims to ensure peace, equality and representative, collective leadership for effective global management.
President ...
