... and a wave of disavowals of his divisive statement coming from other nations in the West. Many politicians and academics are concerned that the adversarial relations between... ... 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:... ..., like all wars it has caused enormous suffering on both sides, with hundreds of thousands of military personnel and civilians killed and wounded, cities and houses reduced...
... relations, is going through a period of severe stress. Over the last five years, Russia’s share of Indian defense imports went down from 60% to 45% and is likely to shrink even further in the near future. Moscow has to confront the rapid expansion of the Western presence in the Indian arms markets and the current "Made in India" strategy pursued by the Indian leadership. On top of that, there are questions in India about the reliability of Russian weapons, Russia’s compliance with delivery ...
... interpretation and treatment of formally enshrined principles of the international law. It was at that juncture that a new concept of the rules-based order was so much needed.
The rules-based order: a sweet-sounding euphemism?
Andrey Kortunov:
A New Western Cohesion and World Order
The “rules-based international order” as a political construct came into vernacular usage relatively a short time ago, in the 2000s. The usage frequency graph for the “rules-based international order” phrase in the array of publications, according to
Google Books Ngram
, demonstrates that since 2000 there has been a steady increase ...
... far has demonstrated a spectacular resilience in its commitment to stay out of the escalating conflict between Russia and the West.
Andrey Kortunov:
A New Western Cohesion and World Order
This persistent resistance to the continuous pressure from the West calls for explanations. One of such explanations ... ... presented as a part of the global clash between "good democracies" and "bad autocracies," as yet another crusade in defense of Western liberal values against the Eastern despotism. The fact is that many nations in Africa, Middle East ...
... influence of the distribution of power between the great powers on the stability of the world order, as well as its power parameters. Meanwhile, modern international experts... ... realism. It has not been reflected upon to the extent that it could be done in the USA. But latently it developed in the environment of academic science, diplomacy and... ... played enough ideological games in the Soviet period. In the United States and in the West as a whole, the ideological component has been preserved, having become even more...
... proved to be a decisive factor in determining the opportunities and constraints for non-Western countries to develop economic and other cooperation with Moscow. Under US pressure... ... main protectors of global public goods, let alone to be the main architects of the new world order.
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict cannot be stopped without active American... ... from Hollywood or the science programs of American universities. The position of the USA in international institutions (especially when it comes to their bureaucracy, which...
... regulate the activities of regional actors and structures, say, in the Euro-Atlantic zone, in the same way NATO or the former Western European Union can do. Did the organization function as a counterweight in the process of the Alliance’s hasty expansion ... ... leaders? The same applies to the well-known Russian demands made in December 2021.
Andrey Kortunov:
A New Western Cohesion and World Order
Whatever can be said about the benefits of UN’s specialized programs and projects, it is also clear that the crisis ...
... and profound changes as everything chaotically transitions from the former U.S.-led unipolar system to an emerging Multipolar World Order. Experts debate exactly when this process began, but many agree that its most significant milestones thus far were ... ... strategies in the Eastern Hemisphere: Moscow’s Greater Eurasian Partnership (GEP) and Delhi’s Indo-Pacific vision.
The U.S.-led West’s unprecedented anti-Russian sanctions that were imposed in response to Moscow’s special military operation in Ukraine ...
... Helsinki and Stockholm are probably the most vivid illustration of the emerging trend toward a consolidation of the Collective West, with other evidence of this newfound unity among the Western nations after February 24, 2022 seen in plenty.
For instance,... ... for their subsequent entry into the global core.
Andrey Kortunov:
Restoration, Reformation, Revolution? Blueprints for the World Order after the Russia-Ukraine conflict
In this renewed unipolarity, Russia will be thrown back to the positions it had ...
... economics and former Special Advisor to three UN Secretaries-General, espouses views uncommon for the mainstream media in the West when it comes to the real origins of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Professor Sachs argues that peace negotiations in earnest ... ... audience one day realize what in fact went wrong?
Andrey Kortunov:
Restoration, Reformation, Revolution? Blueprints for the World Order after the Russia-Ukraine conflict
This war would not have occurred if all parties had negotiated properly and prudently....
