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A Double Thucydides Trap

Dmitry V. Yefremenko

The 75th Anniversary of the Victory of Russian Memory Politics

Vasilisa S. Beshkinskaya, Alexei I. Miller

Without a Horizon

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

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Dmitry V. Yefremenko

To describe the transformation of the world order most accurately it would be appropriate to use the formula “bipolarity overburdened by multipolarity.”

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Vasilisa S. Beshkinskaya, Alexei I. Miller

It is obvious that the Kremlin is trying to diversify the range of means by which it can defend its position in memory wars.

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Fyodor A. Lukyanov

The world has not turned upside down, but the farther these processes go, the less it will resemble the one everyone has got accustomed to over the last several decades.

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Russia-EU: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Split

The Department of International Relations and International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism of National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University) is holding a joint session of Eurasian Online Seminar and China seminar. Our guest on Friday, November 27, 2020 at 16:00 Moscow time will be a renowned Russian expert on international relations Fedor Lukyanov. The topic of his talk is “Russia - EU: How we learned to stop worrying and love the split.”

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

Macro View of US-China Tech Competition: Where Are We and What to Expect?

While the tit-for-tat tariff war between the two largest economies in the world seems to have subsided since the Phase 1 deal was agreed upon last December, the strategic competition between US and China is far from an end. Apart from trade measures, the US has leveraged several other weapons against China. Financial and people-to-people decoupling have started in a very targeted way, tech decoupling has made great strides.

Alicia Garcia-Herrero

Commemorating WWII at the Time of Global Reshuffle

The online session “International Relations and Memory of WWII Today”, organized by the European University in Saint Petersburg and the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, was held on November 23. The participants in the panel discussion, moderated by Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of “Russia in Global Affairs”, included Alexei Miller, Tony Brenton, Sergei Kislyak, Ulrich Brandenburg, and Philip David Zelikow.

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

Russia and the West: A Second Cold or the First Cool War?

Current Cool War and other similar conflicts are not a new Cold War or a relapse of the old Cold War, but phenomena of a new era that have their own causes, logic, dynamics, and inertia. Accordingly, they require completely different responses and solutions. Recipes of the 20th century will not work in a new era.

Konstantin Khudoley

The United Nations emerged from the ashes of the worst war in human history to preserve global peace. Seventy-five years later, though the UN remains a leading global institution, there is increasing talk of it being in crisis and the necessity of reform. Can the UN return to relevancy amid the geopolitical realities of the 21st century?

Thomas Graham, Dmitry Polyansky, Fyodor A. Lukyanov, Sean Guillory

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As Biden’s US presidency approaches, fate of Nord Stream 2 pipeline will indicate whether Russia & EU are set for final divorce

Nord Stream 2, which is designed to deliver Russian gas to Germany, has become a barometer of relations between Russia and the EU. Perhaps, the old model of selling natural gas to Europe belongs to the past, and Russia should move forward, reorienting towards other markets and new partners.

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

The Theory of Universal Racism as a New Version of American Cultural Dominance

Since the U.S. has a significant global cultural influence, this system extends globally and, if adopted by the international community, can turn the world into a place where living and acting will become quite difficult. Essentially, a new all-embracing totalitarian theory is looming ahead, according to which all social and historical phenomena will have to be analyzed from a “racial” point of view, just as the Marxists analyzed them through the lens of “class struggle.”

Alexander V. Lukin

An Action Brief for Canadian – Russian Bilateral Relations

Some may not agree, but Russia plays and will continue to play an influential role globally and/or regionally in areas that are of vital interest to Canada and Canadians. We need a slow but precise confidence building measures. That applies to Canada and Russia. Introduction.

Gilles Breton, Piotr Dutkiewicz

The Future of the Big Triangle

I do not think that there is a serious risk for Russia to end up in strategic dependence on China. No dependence on any external center is acceptable for Russia with its sacred striving for sovereignty. It cannot be anyone’s “younger brother.”

Sergei Karaganov

BRICS: quest for a role in shaping future international order

The concept of BRICS has always provoked a lot of debates, and those will turn even more heated as previous international arrangements are being eroded. Will BRICS be able to increase its potential and make a pillar for the world order in the future? Read analysis by Igor Denisov, Andrei Kazantsev, Fyodor Lukyanov and Ivan Safranchuk, published recently by Strategic Affairs.

Igor Denisov, Andrey Kazantsev, Fyodor A. Lukyanov, Ivan А. Safranchuk

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