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Foreign Companies’ Behavior in the Russian Market under Sanctions: Speculation and Reality

Ekaterina Ya. Arapova, Svetlana I. Balakhonova

EU Identity as a Factor of Resilience in the Face of Russia’s Special Operation in Ukraine

Elena V. Khakhalkina, Anastasia M. Pogorelskaya

Central Asia in Change amid the New Great Game

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Ekaterina Ya. Arapova, Svetlana I. Balakhonova

The decision to continue or stop cooperation with Russia depends on the balance of commercial benefits and potential risks, which vary for different foreign players.

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Elena V. Khakhalkina, Anastasia M. Pogorelskaya

Contrasting EU values and actions to a “significant Other” (Russia) became the most affordable and logical way of strengthening the EU’s identity in the SMO context and thus contribute to the EU’s resilience.

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Zhao Huasheng

The Central Asian countries clearly intend to develop relations with all major powers other than Russia with which they have longstanding ties.

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Foreign Companies’ Behavior in the Russian Market under Sanctions: Speculation and Reality

Ekaterina Ya. Arapova, Svetlana I. Balakhonova

The decision to continue or stop cooperation with Russia depends on the balance of commercial benefits and potential risks, which vary for different foreign players.

More

EU Identity as a Factor of Resilience in the Face of Russia’s Special Operation in Ukraine

Elena V. Khakhalkina, Anastasia M. Pogorelskaya

Contrasting EU values and actions to a “significant Other” (Russia) became the most affordable and logical way of strengthening the EU’s identity in the SMO context and thus contribute to the EU’s resilience.

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Maturity Certificate,  or The Order That Never Was

To be sure, hierarchy has ended. However, it did not end with its complete triumph and the dissolution of the international order therein, but with the exhaustion of the possibilities that it offered. The unification efforts have had the reverse effect, as different cultures and peoples seek to emphasise their identity and distinctiveness even more. The current stage is transitional.

Oleg N. Barabanov, Timofei V. Bordachev, Fyodor A. Lukyanov, Andrei A. Sushentsov, Ivan N. Timofeev

A World for All

One of the characteristics of the new order is the status of rising regional powers, which along with great powers have got an opportunity to play their own independent role, commensurate with their national power. Regional powers seek to adjust their own national interests according to the changing geopolitical environment. In this respect, we have entered the era of “A World for All.”

Kayhan Barzegar

How to Prevent a Third World War

In mid-June, I published an article titled “Nuclear weapons use can save humanity from global catastrophe” in Profil magazine. It was posted in Russian and in English almost simultaneously on the Russia in Global Affairs journal’s website. It was widely reprinted around the world, sparking a tsunami of responses, objections, and debates, tens of thousands of reactions. There was also no shortage of words of support, either.

Sergei A. Karaganov

UN Feedback Shows That While the West Is Hostile to Russia, the World Isn’t

The US and its allies are beating a drum that isn’t finding receptive ears. Most states have other priorities.

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

The Role and Significance of Geo-Socialisation in the 21st Century Global Transformations

Despite possible cultural and religious identity differences, cooperation and collaboration is possible on pragmatic matters through emotional cognitive and psychological connections and similarities in worldview that are informed by values, norms and ideas. The concept of geo-socialization therefore has distinct connections to geopolitics.

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Conflict in Ukraine and Nuclear Weapons

The “nuclear bullet” must necessarily and demonstratively be put into the “revolver drum” the U.S. leadership is recklessly playing with. To paraphrase a now-deceased American statesman, we can say: Why do we need nuclear weapons if we refuse to use them in the face of an existential threat? There is no need to scare anyone verbally. It is necessary to prepare for a possible use practically.

Dmitry V. Trenin

To Nuke Europe or Not to Nuke It – How does the Rest of the World See It?

Russia, by now, should have adapted to Russophobia and become inured to it. It may find it much more beneficial to continue its global positive and peaceful policies and actions, rather than spook the world with nuclear saber-rattling - it would certainly be a lot safer.

The West Knows Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Is Failing. So What’s Plan B?

The failure of their proxy war bet is now motivating Western figures to consider negotiating a ceasefire in Ukraine with Russia, on the line of the current status quo and without firm political commitments. Will the US-led bloc try to turn Ukraine into a Cold War-style ‘frontier’ state or is there something else in the works?

Sergei Poletaev

Gold and Iron at War: Quest for Power

In February 2022, many policy analysts, including this author, expected that the saber-rattling on both sides of the Russia-West geopolitical divide was simply a means to strengthen the bargaining position of both parties in the imminent forthcoming negotiations. History has proven that was not the case.

The Vision of a Multipolar World

With the worldview crisis in Russia’s relations with the West entering a hot phase after the beginning of the Special military operation in February 2022, the future of the world order and principles of international relations is again among the issues making media headlines around the world and featuring widely in discussions held by political pundits. Let’s take a look at it through the prism of foreign policy planning.

Alexey Drobinin

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