... of international relations, offering a compelling alternative to Western approaches, particularly the one proposed in Samuel Huntington’s
The Clash of Civilizations
[Huntington 1993]. It informed the idea of trilateral cooperation between Russia, China and India, implemented by Primakov and later embodied in the BRICS group. By now, the idea of multipolarity has been recognized in global political science, has entered the conceptual framework and the language of international diplomacy and is used in Russia’s ...
On September 9, 2024, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Synergia Foundation (Bangalore, India) and the Grandview Institution (Beijing, China) organised an online seminar ‘Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in the New World Order. Scenarios of Evolution’
On September 9, 2024, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Synergia Foundation (Bangalore, India) and the Grandview ...
... shaping India’s current approach to China. In his book, Shastri Ramachandaran also analyzes the sources of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping’s foreign policies, while paying special attention to the influence the media has on India-China perception of each other.
Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Academic Director, delivered the opening remarks and Shastri Ramachandaran, the author, presented his book.
The discussion featured Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Academic Director, Lydia Kulik, Senior Research ...
... involvement in the BRI can extend these benefits to a broader regional context, linking Eurasia through infrastructure, trade and energy projects that span from Moscow to Islamabad.
Moreover, the BRICS grouping, which brings together Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Ethiopia, Iran, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, offers another avenue for Russia–Pakistan cooperation. While India is a member of BRICS, Russia and Pakistan can still find common ground within this framework to address global ...
In July-August, 2024 Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Synergia Foundation (Bangalore, India) and Grandview Institution (Beijing, China) held a series of work meeting to negotiate the architecture of a joint project, scheduled for 2024–2025
In July-August, 2024 Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Synergia Foundation (Bangalore, India) and Grandview Institution (Beijing,...
... while Islamabad has a long and controversial history of interaction with foreign troops on its soil. But while Russia primarily implies the United States whenever it refers to “external powers,” for India the main external power in South Asia is China.
From the Indian perspective, it is Beijing that seeks to expand its military footprint in different Eurasian subregions, which is fraught with risks for India. In this context, the strength of the Russian initiative is that Moscow offers the main stakeholders ...
Can Moscow make a meaningful contribution to an improvement in China-India relations?
Obviously, the future of Eurasia largely depends on China and India. These two nations demonstrate remarkable resilience in their economic, technological, political, cultural and spiritual growth and maturation. Undoubtedly, their regional,...
... experience in this sense is very illustrative. Russia’s trade and economic interaction with BRICS partners has only grown since the large-scale and unprecedented restrictions were imposed on our country. We are reaching record trade levels with Brazil, India and China.
There has been a steady development of the whole range of cooperation in three key areas: politics and security, economy and finance, and humanitarian contacts. The recent examples of practical achievements in BRICS include the launch of the BRICS ...
... of certain types of state activity. We already see that the modern state is faced with such serious challenges that foreign policy is everywhere subject to considerations of a domestic, political nature. This applies to the Western countries, Russia, China, India and everyone else, and places the most significance on such things that existing theories are not able to make heads or tails of them, simply due to the methodology they have.
One of the curious effects of the two World Wars and, especially, the ...
... drew the attention of the forum participants to
the need to study the role of the southern pole of cold
in global climate change, or its impact on the monsoon cycles in the Indian Ocean, to be more exact.
It should be noted that several Asian nations (India, China, Japan) joined the Arctic research rather late (in the 2000s), while they had been studying the Antarctic prior to that. In this regard, it is quite natural for them to compare these two regions in terms of the natural processes taking place there....
