... community has always attempted to guess the secret ingredient to the endurability of the North Korean regime. An obvious component would be the unique social-economic mechanisms tailored to the country’s unique situation. The socialist model of economic mobilization, well-known from the first five-year plans of the USSR, demonstrated throughout World War II and during the post-war reconstruction of the economy, is highly effective. Ironically, it should be noted that U.S. think tanks have only now begun ...
Protectionism – the New Norm of International Trade
A side effect of any trade war is protectionism, which is particularly pronounced during a period of structural transformation or the transition to a new stage of development in economic competition. And we are not just talking about economic transformations here, but also social transformations – imbalances in the economy lead to social disruptions and failures on the labour market, and the national or supranational government must respond to...
The construction of a “mobilization economy” will be a key test for the legitimization of power – will it be enough to have “great power” as a national idea?
In his article “How to Survive in a Trench Warfare,” RIAC Director General
Andrey Kortunov
rightly points ...
... 2) seeking out spies is now a task of the intelligence services, not ordinary people. The war against the enemy’s intelligence services was conducted in both the Soviet Union and the United States as a competition between professionals, rather than mobilization for war.
American political scientists often polemicize about how effective the use of “soft power” was against the Soviet Union. However, the very concept of “soft power” is based on the fact that the enemy is prepared to listen ...
