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The Pendulum of History: Thirty Years after the Soviet Union

Cold War as a Special Type of Conflict: A Strategic Sketch

Alexey V. Kupriyanov

Translateralism in the Changing Global Order

Kazushige Kobayashi

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Zhao Huasheng

The New Cold War between the U.S. on one side and China and Russia on the other side is likely to intensify, the strategic partnership between China and Russia will be maintained and consolidated despite U.S. possible attempts to separate them, and the New Cold War will remain the basic feature of great power relations in the future.

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Alexey V. Kupriyanov

A Cold War can be compared with a multi-level chess game played simultaneously on several boards: economy, technology, politics, security, and ideology. Moves on one board cast a strategic shadow on the other boards, and a loss on one board leads to a loss of the entire game.

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Kazushige Kobayashi

Translateralism is a foreign policy approach explicitly aimed at transcending a perilous bloc mentality by instituting inclusive, flexible, and open-ended partnerships that cut across existing international cleavages.

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The Pendulum of History: Thirty Years after the Soviet Union

Zhao Huasheng

The New Cold War between the U.S. on one side and China and Russia on the other side is likely to intensify, the strategic partnership between China and Russia will be maintained and consolidated despite U.S. possible attempts to separate them, and the New Cold War will remain the basic feature of great power relations in the future.

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Cold War as a Special Type of Conflict: A Strategic Sketch

Alexey V. Kupriyanov

A Cold War can be compared with a multi-level chess game played simultaneously on several boards: economy, technology, politics, security, and ideology. Moves on one board cast a strategic shadow on the other boards, and a loss on one board leads to a loss of the entire game.

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Russian Reconfiguration: Political Re-armament and Revolution from Above

Russia should embark upon a grand reconversion and reconfiguration which begins with a retrieval of its own history and identity. Retrieval does not mean a return to that identity; it means reclaiming it and returning it to its rightful place in one’s overall identity, writes Dayan Jayatilleka.

Dayan Jayatilleka

Finland and Sweden Joining NATO: The Game Is Afoot

The initial stage of confrontation between Russia and the West is a process of consolidating the positions of both opposing sides. One of its most obvious manifestations is the beginning of Finland and Sweden joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, writes Konstantin Khudoley.

Konstantin Khudoley

Russia’s Role in the Global Economic Order Has Turned out to Be More Significant Than the West Believed

Western sanctions against Russia are speeding up the end of globalization as we’ve known it. A new economic order awaits.

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

What Sort of Losses Can Ukraine Tolerate Before It’s Forced to Seek a Peace Deal With Russia?

This is the fourth month of Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine. The fighting, which began across the country’s northern, eastern and southern territory, is now almost entirely concentrated in the Donbass.

Sergei Poletaev

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How Russia Must Reinvent Itself to Defeat the West’s ‘Hybrid War’

The stand-off between Russia and the Western nations, which has been developing since 2014, escalated into an active confrontation with the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, back in late February. In other words, the Great Game has ceased to be a game. It has become total war, though a hybrid one so far, since the armed conflict in Ukraine is not of a full-scale nature at present.

Dmitry V. Trenin

China’s Neutrality in a Grave New World

As the West is rushing lethal weapons to Ukraine, Washington unexpectedly confronts Beijing’s long-standing neutrality as a make-or-break issue. For China, however, its neutrality is crucial, not only for its own interest but also for world stability.

Peace And Punishment

As we near 100 days of the special military operation in Ukraine it would be good to take a strategic-analytical step back and see where the current situation is in real terms.

Matthew Crosston

Great Power Politics and the Ukrainian Issue

The movement of troops is combined with the threat of economic sanctions, and the appeal to international law and institutions are combined with clear examples of disregard for weak states. Indeed, it was worthwhile for international politics to accumulate such experience and tools over several centuries in order for us to wait for a crisis where all these measures would become available to an interested observer.

Timofei V. Bordachev

It Is Not About Ukraine

This is the article ordered by Financial Times to Professor S. Karaganov. But is was not published for the lack of space. But we still believe it is worth reading.

Sergei A. Karaganov

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