... common security as a shared goal, but rather reverting with greater inertia to traditional paths. Security mechanisms are fragmenting and polarizing, rather than coalescing into a coordinated common security framework.
Nevertheless, building a relatively universal international security system should remain a long-term goal, and the international community must strive tirelessly towards this end. This is not a pursuit of some abstract ideal, but rather because it maximizes security for the world. Humanity should ...
... esteemeth iron as straw, And brass as rotten wood…
Upon earth there is not his like,
Who is made without fear.
He beholdeth all high things:
He is a king over all the children of pride.
Job 41:24-34 King James Version (KJV)
Timeline of Events
On June 13, 2025, Israel struck a number of targets in Iran (fuel enrichment facilities, military sites and plants, air defense systems, missile installations, as well as oil and gas infrastructure), and eliminated several high-ranking Iranian military officials ...
Great powers claim to be great because they cannot afford the luxury of pure situational opportunism, typical for many other international actors
The sudden fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, as far as one can judge, came as a complete surprise for all external actors, Moscow including. Of course, many Russian area studies experts for ...
... extraordinary political role of the armed forces in Algeria’s political system, predetermine a very specific view of the entire system of international relations.
Thus, Algerian experts emphasize three key components of the nation’s approach to international security:
solidarity, globality and indivisibility [
1
].
The former is understood, on the one hand, as solidarity of all actors in confronting global threats (terrorism, climate change, etc.), and, on the other hand, as solidarity with the countries of the Global South and with the oppressed peoples of Palestine and Western ...
On scenarios and conditions for the development of relations between Moscow and Pyongyang
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to North Korea, or the DPRK, which has been under discussion since January 2024, could not only be perceived as a reciprocal visit after the North Korean leader’s visit to the Russian Far East in the fall of 2023 but also as an extremely important step in bolstering relations between Moscow and ...
The recognition of interdependence between security and development suggests that China is likely to become more active in global and regional security matters than it has been ever before
The Global Security Initiative (GSI) was announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping in April of 2022. Predictably, the initiative was brushed off by the Western political mainstream as yet another manifestation of the Chinese "charm offensive" in the Global South with very little substance....
... global UN venue.
The UN has essentially failed to politically sponsor the U.S.-Russian dialogue on strategic stability and the negotiations on arms control, especially concerning its nuclear component as the “core axis” across the entire system of international security. What of the UN’s real contribution to facilitating negotiations amid the current international crisis! This area has remained entirely at the discretion of the United States and Russia as an aspect of bilateral relations between the nuclear superpowers. There is ...
On September 23, 2022, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), in partnership with The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, held the tenth online international high-level expert round table, dedicated to the trends in the development of world politics in the context of acute recent crises
On September 23, 2022, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS),...
Today, we witness a breakdown in civilized intercourse among nations
In my 2018
report
to the UN Human Rights Council I formulated 23 principles of international order, framed within the context of the UN Charter, pertinent UN resolutions
[1]
, customary international law and general principles of law. I noted that the UN Charter is akin to a ...
On April 29, 2022, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), in partnership with The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, hosted the second international high-level expert round table, dedicated to the trends in the development of world politics in the context of acute recent crises
On April 29, 2022, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), in ...
