Topic: Multipolar world

The “crumbling” of the world order is related primarily to the profound re-balancing of the global system and the growing influence of new centers of power on global political processes, specifically…

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov’s interview with the Interfax news agency, December 23, 2020

For Europeans Biden will be a more convenient counterpart then his predecessor, but not necessarily in everything

Although the U.S.-China-Russia triangle is still a popular and useful analytical pattern and possible future scenario for relations, it does not resemble that of the Cold War

Russia is learning to mind its limitations, to repel residual nostalgia and to think straight, putting issues before personalities, staying focused on its own interests

Sanctions are becoming a form of economic regulation in this era of new protectionism and the United States has the most opportunities to exercise this kind of regulation in its own interests

The Biden administration will not accomplish a lot if it attempts to resurrect the US-China-Russia triangle

The Kremlin’s agenda on the Korean Peninsula depends on a fundamental choice that must be made in Russian foreign policy: will the Kremlin strengthen its support for China in its global confrontation…

With the rise of chaos in the world order, Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok could be an antidote to the turmoil

The once-in-a-lifetime catastrophe of COVID-19 has shown that the trend of bipolarization between China and the U.S. is likely to continue and deepen in the post-pandemic period

The fragmentation of the world forced us to admit that value and ethical pluralism is not just a fact of life but also a good thing

It would be very disappointing if the international community were to respond to the events of 2020 in the same near-sighted, fearful and inadequate manner that it responded to the events of 2008–2009