... security, industrial and supply chain fragmentation of the world is deepening. The most important force driving this process is the West's division of the world into "democratic" and "totalitarian" camps, and the associated policies. China opposes and strongly resists this approach, but unity requires the cooperation of both sides, while division and antagonism ... ... features of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, like all wars it has caused enormous suffering on both sides, with hundreds of thousands of military personnel and civilians killed and wounded, cities and houses reduced to rubble, the accumulation of hundreds ...
Interview for the Global Times
As the competition launched by the US against China seems to continue to intensify, the divergence of the two countries' political philosophy becomes increasingly prominent.... ... countries, strengthening friendship and relations of privileged comprehensive strategic partnership.
Ivan Timofeev:
Russia-West: Rising Stakes
What are the main factors that will ultimately determine the resolution of the Ukraine crisis and conflict ...
... down from 60% to 45% and is likely to shrink even further in the near future. Moscow has to confront the rapid expansion of the Western presence in the Indian arms markets and the current "Made in India" strategy pursued by the Indian leadership.... ... relationship derives from the understanding of general trends in the development of world politics of our times.
Managing India and China
Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury:
India’s Eurasian Pathway: Towards an Evolving Strategic Partnership
The modern world is evolving,...
Five questions regarding China-Russia relations and Chinese policy through the prism of the Russia-Ukraine conflict
One unexpected outcome of the Russia-Ukraine ... ... China’s positioning in the Russia–Ukraine conflict is
constructive intervention rather than neutrality. Unlike the US and the West, China’s policy is not based on choosing a side, but oriented toward constructive results.
At this stage, China’s understanding ...
Working Paper No. 74 / 2023
Working Paper No. 74 / 2023
The working paper seeks to analyze constitutive voting patterns of Sub-Saharan states of Africa at the UN General Assembly. The methodology proposed in this paper offers an opportunity to explore this issue topic-wise as well as in a broader sense. The paper considers a number of indicators that help assess the involvement of the continent’s different countries in the voting processes, builds on the various types of strategic behavior in the...
... ideological system of foreign policy, having played enough ideological games in the Soviet period. In the United States and in the West as a whole, the ideological component has been preserved, having become even more established in its significance against ... ... omnipotence of the hegemon (the Afghan resistance managed to eject not only the “inefficient USSR”, but also the “efficient USA”, with all its allies). The second is to undermine confidence and growing scepticism on the part of other major players. Russia was the first, then China began to come to a similar understanding. In Russia, it began to emerge during the process of NATO’s advance to the east ...
... 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... ... Under US pressure, Turkey decided to refuse to service Russian Mir payment cards, and China’s Huawei was forced to begin winding down its activities in Russia.
The new... ... from Hollywood or the science programs of American universities. The position of the USA in international institutions (especially when it comes to their bureaucracy, which...
... collaboration through dialogue to revive multilateralism in addressing global challenges."
Andrey Kortunov:
Consolidation of the West: Opportunities and Limits
This year, the FMM takes place under extremely challenging political circumstances resulting from ... ... Lavrov can count on a chain of bilateral consultations with his counterparts from several non-Western G20 countries including China, Mexico, South Africa and Brazil, as well as with the invited leaders of some international organizations.
However, the ...
... precisely that in order to maximize their strategic autonomy within this paradigm by coordinating their complementary grand strategies in the Eastern Hemisphere: Moscow’s Greater Eurasian Partnership (GEP) and Delhi’s Indo-Pacific vision.
The U.S.-led West’s unprecedented anti-Russian sanctions that were imposed in response to Moscow’s special military operation in Ukraine raised concerns that this targeted Great Power would become disproportionately dependent on China in response since the People’s Republic was considered to be its only reliable valve from Western pressure. That expectation was abruptly shattered, however, after India decisively intervened to preemptively avert that scenario by becoming Russia’s ...
Working Paper #66, 2022
Working Paper #66, 2022
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict will lead to long-term global socio-economic and political consequences in the foreseeable future. Russian and foreign experts are currently exploring a wide range of scenarios for such transformation—from relatively positive to extremely negative. The author formulated three potentially possible options for the current world order transformation, assessing the probability and consequences of the practical implementation...
