2015: A Time of Trouble and a Time of Opportunity

... Eurasia. Cooperation between China and Russia may play a central role in it. In contrast to the model promoted by the United States, there will be no hegemon in the Eurasian community. China will be the economic leader, but other powerful players—Russia, India, and Iran—will be able to counterbalance Chinese influence. Objectively, the new center will serve as a counterweight to the West, which is seeking to consolidate its position, but this does not mean an automatic bipolar confrontation. Cooperation and rivalry will be dialectically combined. Crisis in Europe and Its Implications Another mega-tendency that graphically manifested itself in 2015 was a new phase in the European Union’s multi-level crisis caused ...