... institutions that could blur the red line between membership and partnership (e. g. BRICS+). The price for the enlargement will be a more complicated and cumbersome decision-making... ... of eradicating poverty will become more difficult to achieve.
Ivan Timofeev:
Ending Western Domination Is Key to the Emerging World Order. Here’s What Needs to Be Done... ... this movement depend on many independent variables, in particular, on how long the Russia-West conflict may last for and on how comprehensive and radical the US-China...
... sensitive security and development issues. Furthermore, Moscow should abstain from any temptations to try building any "anti-Western clubs" out of such multilateral fora—it would not be possible to sell such an approach to India anyway. Instead, BRICS and SCO should be used to search for compromises, including between China and India. RIC—a separate trilateral coordination mechanism with the participation of Russia, India and China—could also develop in this direction.
India—The global swing state
In Moscow, one must always keep ...
... potentially forthcoming disproportionate dependence on China by becoming its alternative valve from Western pressure, Moscow could either have voluntarily submitted to becoming the “junior partner” of either the People’s Republic or the U.S.-led Western bloc since it might not have been able to stand independently on its own for too long.
The Global Importance Of The Russian-Indian Strategic Partnership
Dmitry Razumovsky:
What Could Take BRICS Forward?
What India therefore did throughout the course of the last 100 or so days of the Ukrainian Conflict was decisively intervene so as to prevent Russia from having to countenance becoming either bi-multipolar superpower’s “junior partner” ...
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. Georgii Roy Armes, Third world film making and the west, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987, p. 35.
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. Georgii Joseph S. Nye... ... "Soft power", Foreign policy, 1990, pp. 166-167.
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. Georgii Vlad Strukov, "Russian ‘Manipulative Smart Power’: Zviagintsev’s Oscar nomination, (non-) government...
... It is necessary to conduct our own campaign explaining the significance and tasks of BRICS.
For Russia, BRICS is one of the most promising foreign economic initiatives since Russia has been ostracized by the West. Due to decreased contacts with the West, BRICS offers Russia’s political and business circles an alternative opportunity to expand their international ties. It is important for Russia to step up the process of institutionalizing BRICS. It appears that this process will proceed from bottom to top, and ...
Russian public and political discussions have recently been revolving around two important ... ... wonderful country. I have visited many places from Washington to provincial towns in the Midwest. I can say that I generally like it. However, America’s collective unconscious... ... through specificity, strengthened it and helped hold the country together.
The popular BRICS group (which includes some of the aforementioned countries) is an important addition...
... establishment of the (admittedly as yet ineffective) Eurasian Economic Union. Most recently Russia secured the third most voting shares in the Chinese led Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank. While Russia’s ambitions for its relations with the BRICS are naïve, as
I have argued elsewhere
, a Western policy that does not engage Russia will only strengthen Moscow’s turn to these institutions and encourage its efforts to use them to provide a counterbalance to the West.
What all this shows is that on a number of critical issues in international governance, whether we like ...
