Dr Adrian Pabst is a lecturer at the School of Politics and International Relations of Rutherford College, University of Kent, the UK.
Medvedev has begun to chart a radical alternative path that outflanks both liberal and conservative ideology. His proposed “third way” gestures towards a pluralist, associational account of the state and the market – fostering groups, intermediary institutions, small-and medium-sized enterprise as well as regions, instead of relying exclusively on the sovereign will of the individual or the sovereign power of the collectivity.
Now it depends on the political will and courage of the American and Russian leadership to translate their common vision of a multi-polar and multilateral order into the reality of shared institutions and concrete policies. Nothing less than a new security doctrine is at stake.
Medvedev has begun to chart a radical alternative path that outflanks both liberal and conservative ideology. His proposed “third way” gestures towards a pluralist, associational account of the state and the market – fostering groups, intermediary institutions, small-and medium-sized enterprise as well as regions, instead of relying exclusively on the sovereign will of the individual or the sovereign power of the collectivity.
Now it depends on the political will and courage of the American and Russian leadership to translate their common vision of a multi-polar and multilateral order into the reality of shared institutions and concrete policies. Nothing less than a new security doctrine is at stake.
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.
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.