... 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) held a closed academic workshop on “The 80th Anniversary of the United Nations: Achievements and the Future. The Role of the UN in Contemporary Global Governance.”
On October 24, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) held a closed academic workshop on “The 80
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Anniversary of the United Nations: Achievements and the Future....
... United States and Western countries on the global economy. There is an obvious need to strengthen regional platforms, in particular the SCO, in order to overcome the negative trends in global cooperation caused by these measures. In this context, the global governance initiative put forward by Xi Jinping at the SCO summit in China in September 2025 was discussed as one of the approaches to addressing existing systemic issues of interaction in the international arena.
On the Russian side, Ivan Timofeev,...
This development would serve not only strategic interests of the two sides, but also global stability
In his New Year greeting message to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that in the face of changes unseen in a century and volatile international and regional situations, China-Russia relations have always maintained healthy and stable development, and moved steadily in the right direction in 2023. Putin sent heartfelt greetings on the occasion of the New Year 2024...
World politics is fast degrading into a zero-sum game
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” Antonio Gramsci’s famous quote from his Prison Notebooks, where he describes the turbulent era between the two world wars is quite suitable to portray the state of the international system during the recent few decades.
Stating that the world has entered a period of revolutionary transformation...
The recognition of interdependence between security and development suggests that China is likely to become more active in global and regional security matters than it has been ever before
The Global Security Initiative (GSI) was announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping in April of 2022. Predictably, the initiative was brushed off by the Western political mainstream as yet another manifestation of the Chinese "charm offensive" in the Global South with very little substance. Moreover...
The fact that the G20 is a tool for the civilised dismantling of the existing order rather than their renewal does not mean its immediate death
We, of course, are extremely critical of the very idea of global institutions and the prospects for their survival amid the emergence of a qualitatively new international order. Basic ideas about how such organisations appear and why they work, as well as the practical experience of the past decades, constantly demonstrate how unprepared such forms of interaction...
... that all of us will in the years ahead be lucky enough to avoid a second edition of the events that shattered the world on September 11, 2001. Still, taking terrorism off the agenda is only possible if humanity effects a transition to a new level of global governance. It is either that the leading powers are wise and energetic enough for this, or the tax that international terrorism imposes on our common civilization will be progressively higher.
The publication includes 22 articles by leading international relations experts from Russia and China
In June 2022, China Social Sciences Press published the second collection of RIAC and CASS articles
Global Governance in a New Era: Concepts and Approaches
. The publication includes 22 articles by leading international relations experts from Russia and China.
The publication is available in Chinese and English. Editors: Xie Fuzhan, Igor Ivanov, Sun ...
The publication is available in Chinese and English
The authors analyze the possibility of reforming the system of global governance, building a new type of international relations and promoting genuine multilateralism. The Collection also presents systematic analysis of the role of interaction between major powers on a wide range of issues.
The publication will be ...
BRICS can help to "sew" the fabric of global security that is being fragmented in front of our eyes
The 14th BRICS Summit is being held in virtual format in Beijing, China. Under turbulent international situations, the question of whether BRICS should indeed play a significant role in international security remains open. Numerous skeptics believe that security issues should remain outside of the BRICS mandate because BRICS has little to contribute here if compared to institutions specifically...
