... 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) held a closed academic workshop on “The 80
th
Anniversary of the United Nations: Achievements and the Future. The Role of the UN in Contemporary Global Governance.”
During the event, Russian and Chinese experts conducted a detailed analysis of the UN’s role in the contemporary international system, discussed the causes of the ongoing crisis in multilateral institutions, and assessed the prospects for Russia–China cooperation in ...
... United States and Western countries on the global economy. There is an obvious need to strengthen regional platforms, in particular the SCO, in order to overcome the negative trends in global cooperation caused by these measures. In this context, the global governance initiative put forward by Xi Jinping at the SCO summit in China in September 2025 was discussed as one of the approaches to addressing existing systemic issues of interaction in the international arena.
On the Russian side, Ivan Timofeev, RIAC Director General, Vasily Kashin, Director of the Centre for Comprehensive and Strategic Studies at HSE University, Andrey Evseenko, Deputy Director for Scientific Work at the Georgy Arbatov Institute for U.S. and Canada ...
This development would serve not only strategic interests of the two sides, but also global stability
In his New Year greeting message to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that in the face of changes unseen in a century and volatile international and regional situations, China-Russia relations have always maintained healthy and stable development, and moved ...
... at the turn of the century, the Arab Spring, the coronavirus pandemic – the acute phase of each of these cataclysms lasted an average of one and a half to two years. Today, the world is approaching the two-year anniversary of the conflict between Russia and the West transitioning into an acute phase, and there is no light looming at the end of the tunnel. Moreover, there are many reasons to believe that further escalation lies ahead. The same inauspicious conclusions may apply to many other systemic ...
... (UN) was an intellectual creation of the United States and Britain, aimed to preserve and strengthen their influence on international affairs after the World War II. Another thing is that the UN still tried to live its own life, and now the presence of Russia and China in its “Areopagus”, i.e. among the permanent members of the Security Council, creates the appearance that the hypothetical pinnacle of world governance relatively adequately reflects the distribution of aggregate power capabilities....
The publication includes 22 articles by leading international relations experts from Russia and China
In June 2022, China Social Sciences Press published the second collection of RIAC and CASS articles
Global Governance in a New Era: Concepts and Approaches
. The publication includes 22 articles by leading international relations experts from Russia and China.
The publication is available in Chinese and English. Editors: Xie Fuzhan, Igor Ivanov, Sun ...
The publication is available in Chinese and English
The authors analyze the possibility of reforming the system of global governance, building a new type of international relations and promoting genuine multilateralism. The Collection also presents ... ... government officials, journalists, students, as well as a wide range of readers interested in modern global issues in general and Russia-Chinа relations in particular.
... Eastern European and Central Asian Studies (IREECAS), delivered opening remarks
On March 4, 2021 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) held a joint webinar “New Era of Globalization and Global Governance: Views from Russia and China”.
Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Sun Zhuangzhi, Director of the CASS Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies (IREECAS), delivered opening remarks.
The Russian side was represented by Yaroslav Lissovolik,...
On June 24, 2020, the Accounts Chamber of Russia presented the 6th issue of the Bulletin on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
On June 24, 2020, the Accounts Chamber of Russia
presented
the 6th issue of the Bulletin on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The
new issue
of ...
... relations?
Above all, we have to agree that the critical task of the day is the task to restore and to enhance the shattered global governance. Without addressing this task, we are not going to succeed in any other undertakings. The central dividing line ... ... wait-and-see attitude in the face of growing threats to international security.
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Now let me say a few words about the emerging Russian-Chinese partnership, which I consider an entirely new type of partnership with no precedents in history. I do not want ...
