... 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 of ...
... injustices and irrationalities, but the United Nations and the international organizations it created are by far the most representative organizations in the world. They have a unique role in global governance, and are an important part of the current international order. China and Russia are two of the five permanent members of the Security Council and have veto power over major decisions. The problem now is not that the international rules are all bad, but that the West has violated them. What China and Russia should ...
... surplus to a historic deficit.” Unipolarity’s demise, according to Acharya, “was hastened not by isolationism but by adventurism.”
What Randall Schweller and Xiaoyu Pu observed in their
article
published in 2011, titled
After Unipolarity: China’s Visions of International Order in an Era of U.S. Decline
, is that “unipolarity, which seemed strangely durable only a few years ago, appears today as a “passing moment.” The authors added that the U.S. “is no longer a hyper power towering over potential ...
... 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 into an agnostic order under President Trump. In actual fact, D. Trump ...
