The Lost Twenty-Five Years

... freedoms of an individual of any nationality will be fully guaranteed.” This was Mikhail Gorbachev’s final attempt to stop the disintegration of a major country... ... resolved and have – to be clear – become more acute since 2014. For the West – the US and its allies – the collapse of the Soviet Union was a manifestly... ... ‘centralized’ or unipolar global system of governance simply failed. In 2005, Vladimir Putin described the disintegration of the Soviet Union as a major geopolitical...