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Five Years without the INF Treaty: Lessons and Prospects

Alexander D. Chekov

A Race for the Global South or a Battle for the World Majority: Russia’s Prospects

Konstantin V. Bogdanov, Boris E. Frumkin, Irina Ya. Kobrinskaya

Russia’s Radical Othering in the Global Academic Discourse

Olga A. Baysha, Kamilla D. Chukasheva

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Alexander D. Chekov

Further developments concerning regional missiles will depend primarily on U.S. decisions. The symbolic and military components of the new U.S. deployments will be closely intertwined.

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Konstantin V. Bogdanov, Boris E. Frumkin, Irina Ya. Kobrinskaya

The Global South’s vast range of opportunities is conducive to conflict-free cooperation there between state, private, and semi-private providers of development and security.

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Olga A. Baysha, Kamilla D. Chukasheva

The time has come for the Russian academic community to initiate a broad discussion on the rationality of its attempts to stay within a ‘global’ academia that is actually under the structural control and ideological hegemony of the West.

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2024 October/December

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A Race for the Global South or a Battle for the World Majority: Russia’s Prospects

Konstantin V. Bogdanov, Boris E. Frumkin, Irina Ya. Kobrinskaya

The Global South’s vast range of opportunities is conducive to conflict-free cooperation there between state, private, and semi-private providers of development and security.

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Russia’s Radical Othering in the Global Academic Discourse

Olga A. Baysha, Kamilla D. Chukasheva

The time has come for the Russian academic community to initiate a broad discussion on the rationality of its attempts to stay within a ‘global’ academia that is actually under the structural control and ideological hegemony of the West.

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Navigating the Fog

As we transition from a dying world to a new one in its turbulent birth pangs – we find ourselves in a foggy interregnum that urgently needs more clarity for us to move on. Professor Sergei Karaganov discuss the developments in Russia and the world, especially with the nuclear threat growing evermore present, with Al Mayadeen.

Sergei A. Karaganov

From Iron Fist to Erosion: The Assad Regime’s Collapse and the Reshaping of the Middle East

“THE REGIME HAS BEEN THROWN DOWN” You are hereby discharged from the military compulsory service. These are the final messages received by members of the Syrian army in the northern and northeastern countryside of Latakia, marking the conclusion of a regime that has ruled the Syrian people for over five decades.

Borderless Manipulated Terrorism in Syria: A Common Threat and the Need for Collective Cooperation

The recent offensive by Syrian rebels which took control of several cities, particularly the strategic city of Aleppo, is a new development that, although surprising, was not strange. The Middle East region and Syria have many unresolved challenges that are capable of leading to a crisis and an uncertain future at any time under the influence of national, regional or international factors.

Can the West Still Engineer a ‘Color Revolution’? We’re About to Find Out

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

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

The UN Must Recover Its Central Role in Coordinating Actions by Nations

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.

Sergei V. Lavrov

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The Time of Interventions: From Practice to Data

Despite the widely circulated post-Cold War thesis about the declining role of force in global politics, states still often resort to force, but do it in the form military interventions.

Ivan A. Safranchuk

War on Gaza Crystalizes Israel’s Image

Modern Israel attracts much attention from analysts and the public but our ability to understand it is hindered by ideology, prejudice, and myth. However, the fundamental difficulty lies in the habitual association of the state in Western Asia with the Jews. Should we view those who inhabit and govern Israel as Jews or have they become something else - namely, Israelis?

Yakov M. Rabkin

Rise of Front and Proxy Media in 21st Century International Relations

Where the US intends to increase troop activity, they begin by increasing media activity to pave the way informationally and cognitively for the coming new physical ‘reality.’ In the current context, the Western policymakers and practitioners have taken a self-destructive and deeply delusional ideological path, lacking the professional capability and capacity of the past.

The White Man’s Burden: Chasing a Mirage

What is more important for the global leader — the soft power of wealth or the hard power of the sword? Upholding the dominant global position with the power of sword flatters the ego of American power brokers but, from the financial perspective, this game might not be worth a candle.

It’s Time for Russia to Give the West a Nuclear Reminder

Washington is waging a proxy war in a bid to inflict a ‘strategic defeat’ on Moscow and a tougher response to this is needed.

Dmitry V. Trenin

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