... international diplomacy and is used in Russia’s doctrinal documents. In 2015, we proposed the scenario of a
new bipolarity
[
2
] as one of the possible trajectories for global development. Today, many scholars, both Chinese and American, [
3
] suggest that China-centric and U.S.-centric poles are emerging.
This article discusses the “multipolarity — new bipolarity” dichotomy.
Long Global Macro-Transformations
World history shows that a new world order typically emerges after
the end of a major war
(see
Table 1
).
Table 1
. International system (world order)
International system
Period
Guarantors
Specifics
The Concert of Europe, following the Napoleonic Wars
1815–1914
99 years
Russia,...
... generating and protecting global and regional public goods, let alone of stepping to the fore as main architects of the new world order.
Nobody is in a position to stop the Russian-Ukrainian conflict without an active American participation. For all ... ... more-so have to adapt to the emerging world than to adapt the world to itself.
Ivan Timofeev:
Trump or Harris: Does it Matter for China?
The task of adapting to the new realities faces all the countries of the world without exception. Still, this will be particularly ...
.... The sections contain thematic recommendations for overcoming the highlighted problems.
The following policy brief has been prepared against the backdrop of the Russian International Affairs Council’s Ninth International Conference, “Russia and China: Cooperation in a New Era” of March 2024. Russian experts on state political and economic cooperation, as well as the development of the world order have actively participated in the making of this material.
Сompilers:
Julia Melnikova, Lyubov Nechaeva
Academic Editors:
Igor Istomin, Ph.D in Political Science, Sergey Lukonin, Ph.D in Economics
Editors:
Svetlana Gavrilova, Ph.D. in History ...
... — Vanguard 500 Index Fund Investor Shares, Morgan Stanley, Capital World Investors, Geode Capital Management LLC and FMR LLC.
Monopolar and bipolar world order, militarization, war rhetoric, command and obedience — these are relics from the old world order. The new one will not work like this. Living multipolarity means always staying close and creating diplomacy and peace-binding measures.
Who is actually isolated?
New players, China, Russia and the BRICS states are on the world stage and are powerfully heralding the end of US hegemony, and with it the end of the dominance of the so-called “democratic Western world.”
On the currency front, too, more and more countries, especially ...
... phrases, but it is not quite clear how to put them into practice. In your opinion, why is this so? Is it because we still do not understand how Chinese culture works? Or is it because China is only at an early stage of shaping its own vision of the future world order?
It’s both. China is surely at an early stage of—if not quite forming its own view of the world order—formalizing it in a way that would be understandable not only to specialists. They have the same problems as we do, only in reverse. We need to learn to understand ...
... Beijing’s cooperation with major European powers as well as with the European Union in general, can be preserved even if the China-US relations continue going sour. The jury is still in session on this critical question, but a candid exchange of views ... ... likely outcome of the November elections including, should constitute a significant item of the Putin-Xi agenda.
Fifth,
emerging world order.
The two leaders are also likely to discuss more general matters of the emerging new world order, such as the preferred ...
... the most immediate dangers that cannot be put on a back-burner till 2035, though to reach consensus on the priorities short-list would already be quite a formidable challenge.
Implications for Russia and China
What does this mean for Russia and for China? What role could our each of the two countries play in the formation of a new world order, based on the changing balance of power in the world, as well as objective resource, demographic, technological and other constraints? Are there any areas in which Russia and China have comparative advantages that allow it to claim global ...
In the classroom of civilizations, there can be no omniscient teachers and obedient pupils
One year ago, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and President Xi Jinping attended the CPC in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-level Meeting in Beijing on March 15, 2023, and presented the Global Civilization Initiative (GCI) in his keynote address. This presentation ...
... Russian International Affairs Council, and Zhao Huasheng, Professor at Fudan University and expert with the Beijing Club for International Dialogue, to discuss the problems pertaining to international security, preventing a nuclear war, the rise of a new world order and prospects for the China-Russia relations.
The world security situation: pessimistic or optimistic?
Andrey Kortunov:
Recent international developments give few reasons to stay optimistic about global security—at least, in the nearest future. Most of the ongoing conflicts ...
.... In October, it is hard to deny that the damage to the old international system is already beyond repair. The post-Cold War world order that lasted for more than thirty years is unraveling with an accelerating speed. The remaining elements of this order ... ... Superpower
It was essential that in Beijing Chairman Xi and President Putin did not limit themselves do discussing the bilateral China-Russia agenda, no matter how important this agenda appears to be. On top of talking about trade, investments, R&D, education,...
