Emerging powers will undoubtedly influence the shaping of future global governance structures and international mechanisms
For a very long time, the “Rules-Based International Order” has remained the West’s choicest phrase to denote a global governance order under the US leadership, built on liberal values, capitalist democracy and global cooperation. However, behind this persuasive rhetoric is a system which has been viewed by many non-western ...
... clients, especially when it all comes down to money flowing to America.
Hence the surprise in Washington when so many states line up for BRICS+ or SCO+. They are not necessarily embracing Russia or China unconditionally; they are signaling their refusal to live by rules drawn elsewhere.
Russia’s place
Against this backdrop, Russia finds itself not marginalized but central. Western isolation efforts only underscored Moscow’s role as a key pole around which non-Western states can organize. For many, Russia is proof that there are alternatives to Western tutelage.
President Vladimir Putin, addressing the Eastern Economic ...
... possesses damage mitigation capabilities identical to those of Ukraine, merely on an exponentially greater scale. Unlike Ukraine, Western countries currently demonstrate reduced psychological tolerance for human casualties. That said, concerted political mobilisation ... ... designation as aggressor and consequent international isolation. The latter, while slightly reducing political costs, still permits accusations that Moscow violated the nuclear taboo first. However, apart from politics, other things are equally important. Both ...
... convincingly claim the global leadership it once took for granted
The recent G7 Summit, which took place in Canada's Kananaskis on Monday and Tuesday, marked the semi-centennial anniversary of the group. The first top-level meeting of the six most powerful Western nations (G6) was held in Rambouillet, France, in the fall of 1975, and a year later after accepting Canada as its member, G6 turned into G7. Since that time, the composition of the group has remained practically unchanged with the exception of ...
... within the EU.
And if Napoleon is right: "The policy of all powers is determined by their geography" [17] then Germany—thanks to its geographical location in the middle of Europe—should also consider the role of mediator between East and West, between the USA and Russia.
As a political and economic middle power, Germany has a responsibility to take peacemaking measures and initiatives. Germany should therefore practice neutrality.
The areas of historic eastern Germany, including West and East Prussia and ...
... Kortunov:
Unpacking Trump’s Proposals for Ukraine
The diplomatic rupture between Washington and Moscow began in 2016 with U.S. accusations of Russian interference in the presidential elections. Tensions escalated further in 2018 when the U.S. expelled Russian ... ... to European security, NATO’s role is set to diminish. This shift aligns with Russia’s long-standing objective of limiting Western military presence near its borders.
Economic Revival: The resumption of diplomatic ties is expected to lead to the lifting ...
... at least, of approaches to some of the main sources of security threats to Asia as they are currently seen from each of the two capitals.
For foreign policy decision-makers in Moscow, the core security challenge to Asian countries comes from overseas Western powers that have got involved in the continent over previous centuries and that have always been committed to keeping Asia disunited and fragmented to the extent possible in order to exercise an external control over the continent and to exploit ...
The presidential elections in the United States will determine the future of international relations and become a prologue for a post-Westphalian system of inter-civilizational dialogue
Russia, Europe, and America: Towards a Post-Westphalian World Order
The transformation of the current world order, frequently discussed by numerous experts and scholars as a “global restructuring,...
... in Washington.
As it was the case in 1990s, the US approach to the Global South is not very different from its approach to US Western allies and partners: both groups of nations appear to be not full-fledged sovereign decision-makers, but rather as disciplined ... ... whether it concerns movie productions from Hollywood or the research programs of American universities. The position of the USA in international institutions (especially when it comes to their bureaucracy, which represents a kind of global Deep State) ...
... for national interests and civilizational values, and consensus.
Neither BRICS nor the SCO is overtly anti-American or anti-Western: their main focus is internal rather than external, and they have their work cut out for them. Of course, Russia, China,... ... don’t want to dominate Eurasia: they live there, it is their home – unlike the ever-restless
“indispensable nation”
thousands of miles away. In Ukraine, the main issue for Russia has been national security, not some
“resurrection of an empire”
...
