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A World Without Superpowers
Washington’s unilateral actions on the global stage, far from yielding positive results in Afghanistan and Iraq, run counter to the objective processes in the international economy and politics. Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been leaning toward a multipolar power structure, and even the world’s mightiest nation is unable to reverse this trend.
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Victory on Points: Pragmatism in Foreign Policy
Russia’s foreign policy must be pragmatic. While few dare to question this idea, it is being interpreted in many different ways. In fact, the concept of pragmatism cannot be reduced to a simple formula.
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Warfare Against the Rules
The Pentagon has announced that the Iraqi war marked a “revolution in military affairs.” However, Russian generals tend to ignore the importance of this “revolution.” Their attitude is rather easy to understand: any unbiased analysis of the U.S. military actions would call into question Russia’s current program for military development, its concept of military reform and most of its plans concerning combat deployment of its armed forces.
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Temptation of Uniqueness
In ten years, Russia will not become a genuinely Western country. But the temptation to “follow our own way,” which some members of Russia’s political elite have, will hardly be irresistible. Self-isolation of a country claiming to be unique in the contemporary globalized world is possible only if it falls very far behind the system and, ultimately, out of history.
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The Depopulated Superpower
The dramatic demographic changes in the world are creating an unprecedented challenge for all states, yet the problems confronting Russia, a country with a low birth rate and a very high death rate, are particularly acute.
Their solution will require a revision of many traditional views; however, neither the nation nor its leaders are prepared for that.
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“Russian Soul” and Economic Modernization
Political and economic reforms will not succeed unless they are accompanied by a reform in the way people think. The real transformation of a country begins when its citizens change their personal value systems. Can the national character be changed? Does the Russian mentality really need to be altered in order for Russia to become a flourishing democracy?
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Patient in Coma?
The Iraqi crisis has inflicted serious damage on the principles of non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The very word ‘non-proliferation’ has become hackneyed, while the traditional mechanisms for preventing the WMD proliferation are being ignored – not because they are inefficient but because they can lay bare an easy substitution; the established non-proliferation architecture is being deliberately jeopardized.
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The Islamic World Poised Between Reform and Collapse
The relations between the Moslem community and the West are being put to a serious and, possibly, final test. The world is only now approaching a true dialog between the two civilizations. The essence of this dialog is quite specific: what can the Moslem community and Islam borrow from the West without losing its identity?
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The Worst Quarrels Occur Within Families
The crisis in trans-Atlantic relations has forced Moscow to make a choice which it is loath to make. On some issues, Russia readily agrees with the Europeans; on others it finds common ground only with the Americans. The huge country, which stretches from Europe to the Pacific Ocean, cannot be categorized by simple geopolitical definitions: ‘axis’ or ‘triangle.’
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The UN: An Instrument That Requires Skill
The demise of the United Nations has been announced on many previous occasions, yet the grim diagnosis has never been fully confirmed; it seems the international organization will survive the aftermath of the Iraqi crisis as it has survived other crises in the past. If the former UN decision-making process fails to work, then a new mechanism should be worked out within the framework of the UN Security Council.
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The Russian-U.S.-British Triangle
The crisis at the UN Security Council is bringing into the foreground another institution of great influence – the Group of Eight. Can this informal organization, which unites the most influential states of the world, become a new Concert of Nations?
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Corporate Governance: “Russian Model” in Progress
A civilized world-class market cannot be built without energetic efforts to improve corporate management. This is particularly topical for Russia, since it only has several years to catch up with countries that have been traveling down the same road for centuries. The level of Russia?s economic development, its image abroad and its ability to attract investment depends on the ability of Russian companies to work effectively.
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When the Baltic countries entered NATO and the European Union a couple of years ago, many thought it was the end of the centuries-old "red line." Euro-Atlantic organizations had crossed into the former Russian and Soviet empires.
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