Topic: Multipolar world

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

The building of the world’s economic architecture with platforms as the construction material may well render the global construct more stable and less prone to crises, particularly if we start…

It is advisable for the SCO to be positioned as a leading international organisation and the foundation of a Greater Eurasia regional international order, given that Eurasia is still the only region…

Alexey Gromyko provides a Russian perspective on the impacts of the current pandemic on our globalised world

I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding. – Stephen Wright
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided to them – Antoine de…

Multilateralism, like any other format of diplomatic activity, will always be as effective or ineffective as the players who practice them want

When superpowers are not surrounding themselves with ideological blocs, bipolarity is nothing but two states getting into a bickering match, albeit with certain global attributes  

As the Western philosopher George Santayana said, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

In a period characterized by hysteria over alleged Russian intervention in everything, I would point out a deficit or absence of such intervention in a vector it should — the intellectual vector