Olga Butorina is a Doctor of Economics, professor, head of the European Integration Department, Advisor to the Director of the MGIMO University of the Russian Foreign Ministry, and a member of the Board of Advisors of Russia in Global Affairs.
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29 december 2011
A Europe Without the European Union?
(1)The EU’s biggest problem today is the loss of the European idea and the vagueness of European self-identity. Despite the ongoing process of enlargement, EU leaders have been unable to persuasively answer the question of what it means to be a European today.
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27 march 2011
Currency Wars
The tools available to the world community to try to resolve the currency dispute between the United States and China are very limited. Under a favorable scenario the conflict will remain latent, and under the worst-case scenario it will result in the overall growth of protectionism. Much will depend on how well Western countries can reduce the level of public debt. At the second turn of the debt crisis it will go geopolitical.
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8 march 2009
Dances with the Dragon
The crisis is setting an almost impossible task before the countries with developing markets – to modernize market mechanisms and strengthen the state’s position in the economy, although their economic system is deformed a priori and international practice and standards ignore the fact of this deformation.
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17 november 2007
Funky Integration
European integration is usually compared to a train moving toward a single destination that is known to all of its passengers. Today, however, there is a metaphor that more aptly describes European integration: a hypermarket with numerous shops, cafes, Internet outlets, beauty parlors, Laundromats, and multiplex cinemas.
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30 july 2005
Change or Die
The disintegration of the CIS, or its lingering in a state of latent disintegration will drastically reduce the potential of the countries in the region – as well as the international community – to control various processes there. Neither the EU nor the U.S. will be able to impose their system of governance in the CIS territory.
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1 december 2003
International Monetary System: The End of Monocracy
Over the next ten to 15 years the dollar’s global hegemony will be a thing of the past. The core of the new international system will be constituted by 20-30 of the most important currencies, which will be integrated into a real-time settlements system based on new information technologies. This type of format change can radically improve the position of the Russian ruble and alter guidelines for a national monetary policy.
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"Russia in Global Affairs" is now available at Facebook
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The analytical report "The U.S. - Russa Relations after the "Reset": Building a New Agenda. A View from Russia" - free download
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"Towards an Аlliance of Europe" - Analytical Report by the Russian Group of the Valdai International Discussion Club is avaliable online
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New version of Russia in Global Affairs website is now avaliable
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A revolutionary chaos of the new world
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Sergey Karaganov -
The Russian-Georgian war as a turning point
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Fyodor Lukyanov -
The Dialectics of Rise and Decline
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Joseph Nye Jr -
“Coercion to Partnership” and the Flaws of an Unbalanced World
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Alexei Bogaturov -
Russia and Europe: Friends and interests
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Fyodor Lukyanov
A revolutionary chaos of the new world
The world is getting more troublesome and increasingly challenging right before our eyes.
Putin, Russia and the West: beyond stereotype
Russia, the country which Putin governs, is essentially perceived in the world as a decaying power.
A Europe Without the European Union? (1)
The EU’s biggest problem today is the loss of the European idea and the vagueness of European self-identity. Despite the ongoing process of enlargement, EU leaders have been unable to persuasively answer the question of what it means to be a European today.
Currency Wars
The tools available to the world community to try to resolve the currency dispute between the United States and China are very limited. Under a favorable scenario the conflict will remain latent, and under the worst-case scenario it will result in the overall growth of protectionism. Much will depend on how well Western countries can reduce the level of public debt. At the second turn of the debt crisis it will go geopolitical.
Dances with the Dragon
The crisis is setting an almost impossible task before the countries with developing markets – to modernize market mechanisms and strengthen the state’s position in the economy, although their economic system is deformed a priori and international practice and standards ignore the fact of this deformation.
Funky Integration
European integration is usually compared to a train moving toward a single destination that is known to all of its passengers. Today, however, there is a metaphor that more aptly describes European integration: a hypermarket with numerous shops, cafes, Internet outlets, beauty parlors, Laundromats, and multiplex cinemas.
Change or Die
The disintegration of the CIS, or its lingering in a state of latent disintegration will drastically reduce the potential of the countries in the region – as well as the international community – to control various processes there. Neither the EU nor the U.S. will be able to impose their system of governance in the CIS territory.
International Monetary System: The End of Monocracy
Over the next ten to 15 years the dollar’s global hegemony will be a thing of the past. The core of the new international system will be constituted by 20-30 of the most important currencies, which will be integrated into a real-time settlements system based on new information technologies. This type of format change can radically improve the position of the Russian ruble and alter guidelines for a national monetary policy.
Russia Is Not Prepared to Restore the Empire
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.
Russia at the Turn of the Century: Hopes and Reality
In September 2004, the Russian city of Novgorod hosted an international conference entitled Russia at the Turn of the Century: Hopes and Reality. Its organizers were the RIA Novosti news agency, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Russia in Global Affairs, and The Moscow Times.
2002-2011