... and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership).
Andrey Kortunov:
Time for a Consolidated Russian-Chinese Approach to Modernize and Reform UN
State-centric approaches to international relations, such as political realism and neorealism, treat international institutions as secondary to states, which are reaffirmed as the main actors of international affairs. Consequently, they do not pay proper attention to the issues of functioning, autonomy, legitimacy and effectiveness of these institutions....
... focused on the following topics:
— To what extent is it possible to preserve the concept of "solidarity" used internationally in the context of the general growth of protectionism (in a broad, not only economic sense)?
— Does the crisis of international institutions and the decline of states' willingness to take on an extra burden open up opportunities for non-state players—"contractors"? Are interstate agreements on delegating the functions of crisis managers to nontraditional ...
... governors of the Beijing University School of International Studies and Center for International and Strategic Studies to discuss expanded cooperation with RIAC.
Report "Institutions vs. Regimes in Great Power Relationships (the case of Russia)"
International institutions have become fashionable in Moscow. Not all of them, of course: within the Russian political mainstream today you are unlikely to find many committed champions of NATO or even of the European Union. Organizations like the Council ...
