Russia in Global Affairs

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Kirill V. Babaev

PhD in Philology
Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow,
Russia
Director

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01.07.2024

The Tripolar World and the Bloc Triangles of East Asia

Although the triangles’ emergence is increasing general tension in East Asia and driving a regional arms race, a conflict of Korean origin seems less likely than a conflict over Taiwan.

Konstantin V. Asmolov, Kirill V. Babaev

01.10.2023

In Scope and Depth

The decisions made at the 15th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg are likely to lead to the group’s revolutionary transformation. It is yet to be seen how effective and viable the new composition will be. However, it is already evident that doubling the number of participants will complicate consensus decision-making.

Kirill V. Babaev, Sergei V. Lavrov

Svetlana Babayeva

RIA Novosti Senior Analyst.

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23.06.2012

The Potential and Limits of Twitter Revolutions

The mechanisms of well-functioning society to assure transparency, accountability and healthy replacement of those in power can only originate and exist in real life. Otherwise, democracy will remain virtual, as well. A Twitter revolution can engender a Twitter democracy. But little change in the material world.

Svetlana Babayeva

17.11.2007

From Process to Progress

The ruling class has run into a perplexity it created on its own. On the one hand, there is governable life based on the apathy of some people and petty pragmatic readiness of others. On the other hand, the rulers have to retrieve the genuinely creative sections of society from dormancy. Governable life no longer satisfies the rulers themselves, while the unpredictability of awakening forces frightens them.

Svetlana Babayeva, Georgy Bovt

08.08.2007

Free from Morality, Or What Russia Believes In Today

The vacuum of ideas, compounded with the insecurity of material status (the Russian market still remains an unpredictable place), makes it impossible to set and fulfill objectives (materialize one’s dreams) or cause aggression or unwillingness to make progress. People have developed the ability to “enjoy the moment”, but the resultant movement lacks both vector and meaning.

Svetlana Babayeva

Elena Babkina

Anthropologist and a researcher at the Research University-Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg.

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15.06.2018

Self-Identity of Borderland

Abstract This paper is based on the results of field research conducted by the author in Donbass in 2015-2017 and studies the media space and…

Elena Babkina

Salvatore Babones

Salvatore Babones, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Policy School of Social & Political Sciences at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney.

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22.09.2015

Russia’s Eastern Gambit

Russia has nothing to gain and nothing to lose in Europe. By contrast, Russia has much to gain and everything to lose in Asia. Asia is dynamic and growing. But to realize its potential Russia must focus on internal development, not external posturing. And the obvious place for it to focus first is the Far East.

Salvatore Babones

Andrew J. Bacevich

American historian specializing in international relations, security studies, American foreign policy, and American diplomatic and military history.

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21.12.2017

When Washington Assured Russia NATO Would Not Expand

How America's failure to honor a 1990 commitment led to many of today's global crises.

Andrew J. Bacevich

Dmitry Badovsky

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05.09.2009

Russia’s Modernization: At Another Fork in the Road

Solution to the problems of power and the destiny of modernization has been put off until the 2012 election, when the final choice of the parameters of future development could be determined by either Vladimir Putin’s return to the Kremlin or Dmitry Medvedev’s continued presidency.

Dmitry Badovsky

07.06.2009

Chances for a Reset in Russian Politics

In the political sense, the country, led by the incumbent authorities to the victory over the crisis, will be preparing for relatively quiet elections. It is important that the very issue of the main candidate to the presidential post in 2012 will be addressed outside the framework of the crisis.

Dmitry Badovsky

Thomas Bagger

Director of Foreign Policy in the Office of the Federal President, Germany

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13.12.2021

Every Collapse Has Its Inner Logic

Perestroika and the subsequent 1990s were accompanied by such massive enthusiasm and a sense of liberation that it would be unfair to discard them as illusions from the point of view of some “objective” progress.

Artemy V. Magun, Timothy Garton Ash, Andrei A. Teslya, Thomas Bagger, Philip Zelikow, Michael Mann, Hanns W. Maull

Andrey Baklanov

Head of the International Affairs Department of the Federation Council of the Russian Federal Assembly; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Association of Russian Diplomats.

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19.03.2015

Oil Prices: An Action Strategy Is Needed

We need a substantial strategy of pricing policy and implementation mechanisms to avoid emotional shocks every time oil prices drop. The fuel market should be more controllable, balanced, and fair, as Russia’s national interests demand.

Andrey Baklanov

27.12.2013

A War of the Future

New defense technologies often create the illusion of a possibility of “victorious” wars, which provokes ever new conflicts and wars. The number and scale of conflicts in the world will hardly decrease in the coming years, while the arms race will serve primarily the needs of the development of new areas and the goal of expanding the resource base for production.

Andrey Baklanov

27.10.2013

The Iranian Key to the Middle East Door

The view on national development and foreign policy has been firmly mixed in the minds of Iranians with a skeptical, and one can even say ironical, perception of the West’s attempts to portray its way of life and values as the only “civilized system.”

Andrey Baklanov

Andrey A. Baklitskiy

Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of the International Studies at the MGIMO University, PIR Center Consultant, Russia

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07.09.2020

Iran’s Nuclear Superposition

The biggest positive factor is that the JCPOA is still alive and can be revived any time. Tehran has stated more than once that it will reciprocate as soon as the United States resumes its obligations. It is simpler to stop an undeclared war, pretending that it was never waged. On the negative side, the superposition could “implode,” resulting in one of two possible variants. Both the U.S. and the Israeli authorities would prefer the JCPOA to be “dead.”

Andrey A. Baklitskiy

29.04.2016

The Iranian Deal: Opportunities and Obstacles for Russian-US Cooperation

On July 14, 2015, the United States, Russia, China, France, UK, Germany, the European Union and Iran concluded the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the “Iran deal,” with the goal of ending the standoff over the Iranian nuclear program.

Andrey A. Baklitskiy, Richard Weitz

Svetlana I. Balakhonova

MGIMO University, Moscow, Russia
Institute for International Studies
Center for Sanctions Policy Expertise
Expert

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01.10.2023

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

Companies with a higher share of the Russian market in their revenue structure are less willing to leave the Russian market. Cooperation with state-owned (or state-affiliated) companies from countries that have not joined the sanctions and show a higher level of political loyalty to Russia’s foreign policy has the best prospects.

Ekaterina Y. Arapova, Svetlana I. Balakhonova

Yuri Baluyevsky

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01.12.2003

Strategic Stability in a Globalized World

The international stability of the Cold War times, based on the principle of guaranteed mutual destruction by the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. in a nuclear conflict, is now a thing of the past. How can strategic stability be achieved now? And in general, how stable is a world order void of confrontation between the two superpowers?

Yuri Baluyevsky

Oleg N. Barabanov

MGIMO University, Professor;
Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club.

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04.11.2024

The World From the Bottom Up or The Masterpieces of Eurasian Architecture

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.

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

02.10.2023

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

24.02.2023

The First Year of the Conflict: The Semantics of Words and Deeds

We must remember that mutual trust between society and the government has always been the basis of military success in history. When it is irrevocably violated, then no semantic euphemisms can help.

Oleg N. Barabanov

Mikhail Barabanov

Mikhail Barabanov is Editor-in Chief of the Moscow Defense Brief magazine.

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18.12.2014

Testing a “New Look”

What has been done since 2008 can probably be considered the most ambitious, consistent and effective military reform in Russia. The decisive turn from the traditional mobilizational army allowed Russia to create permanent and high readiness forces well adapted for operation in the post-Soviet region.

Mikhail Barabanov

Anastasia Barannikova

PhD in History,
Research Fellow,
Research Laboratory of Spatial Logistics,
ADM Nevelskoy Maritime State University,
Vladivostok, Russia.

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05.02.2024

The DPRK Nuclear Weaponry: Dyad or Alternative Triad?

The DPRK is quite capable of creating a nuclear triad, although this triad will differ from the Russian or American ones. One strategic component — ICBMs — is sufficient to deter the most likely adversary. The other components can be tactical and still be able to fulfill their assigned tasks, one of which is to ensure the survivability of a retaliatory strike capability.

Anastasia Barannikova

Alexander Barsenkov

Alexander Barsenkov has a Doctorate in History and is a professor in the History Department at Moscow State University.

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07.07.2010

Should We Fear the Past?

A meaningful conversation about Joseph Stalin makes sense only in the context of Russian history. However dramatic and intricate the latter might be in the 20th century, there is no way to cross out the industrial and cultural breakthroughs of the 1930s, the victory in World War II and the country’s reconstruction from postwar ruins between 1945 and 1953 amid conditions of a new threat. Whether anyone likes it or not, Stalin cannot be torn away from these obvious achievements.

Alexander Barsenkov

Sanjaya Baru

Distinguished Fellow, United Service Institution of India, New Delhi.

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17.12.2019

The Asian Mirror for the Far East: an Indian Perspective

India and Russia have long shared geopolitical perspectives on the balance of power in Eurasia. In the post-Cold War era both turned their attention to the West. However, over the past decade India has pursued the Look East Policy, seeking to regain its political and economic influence in Southeast Asia and building new strategic partnerships with East Asian powers like Japan and South Korea. Russia’s Turn to the East and India’s move from the Look East to the Act East Policy have created a new framework for closer India–Russia geo-economic and geopolitical relations.

Sanjaya Baru

Kayhan Barzegar

Head of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Science and Research Branch of the Islamic Azad University. He is also Director of the Institute for Middle East Strategic Studies (IMESS) in Tehran.

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