Russia in Global Affairs

Georgia is partially on fire, but this is not 2003 and the US and EU may find things more difficult this time.

In an electrifying debate hosted by Horizons, Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, and Sergey Karaganov, a renowned Russian political strategist, confronted the pressing challenges facing the global order. Moderated by Vuk Jeremić, editor-in-chief of Horizons, the event explored the complexities of shifting power structures, the protracted conflict in Ukraine, and the role of nuclear deterrence in contemporary geopolitics.

New rules emerge from shifts in the balance of power and, if we take the modern-day world, the fact that small groups of countries are no longer able to tell the rest of the international community what to do.

It is not too late to give the UN a new lease on life. But this should not be done through delusional summits and declarations but through the restoration of trust based on the Charter principle of the sovereign equality of all states. This is not happening so far.