Prepare for the Worst and Strive for the Best. Russia’s and China’s Perceptions of Developments in International Security

... difficult to come to a mutually acceptable compromise. Zhao Huaheng: A Dangerous Gamble: The Russia-American Nuclear Game in the Ukraine Crisis Why did the end of the cold war lead to even greater regression in the international community? Andrey Kortunov: ... ... the West. Unfortunately, it turned out that the two sides had very different perceptions about very fundamental dimensions of international security and global governance. In the West, they assumed that the future international system should have at its ...