Russia in Global Affairs

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

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

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

Oleg N. Barabanov

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

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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

01.01.2023

The Distributed World

Nobody has any doubts that what is happening now in Ukraine is not simply a regional conflict but a test for the current international hierarchy. Predictions of the outcome would be woefully premature in any case, but one can try to imagine which principles may form the foundation of a future system of global co-existence and which will be relegated to the past.

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

24.10.2022

A World Without Superpowers

World politics has begun to rapidly return to a state of anarchy built on force. “The end of history” culminated in the restoration of its usual course – the destruction of the international order resulting from large- scale conflicts between centres of power.

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

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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16.08.2017

Will Iran Leave the Nuclear Deal?

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that Iran could break the JCPOA nuclear agreement if Washington imposes new sanctions against Tehran.

Kayhan Barzegar

21.03.2014

Iran-Russia Relations after the Geneva Nuclear Deal

In the triangle of Iran-U.S.-Russia relations, Russia is likely to strengthen its relations with Iran to equate the role and influence of its rival global power and Iran will attempt to stay in its independent track willing to expand relations to the one that accepts its regional role and global status.

Kayhan Barzegar

24.06.2012

A Turning Point in the Middle East Geopolitics

The geopolitical changes brought about by the Arab Uprising showed that there is a rivalry between regional actors (Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Israel) and international actors and great powers (United States, Russia, China and the European Union) to bridge geopolitical and ideological gaps.

Kayhan Barzegar

Sergey Batsanov

Ambassador; Russian Federation Ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva (1989–1993).

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07.12.2020

Restoring the Effectiveness of the JCPOA: Principles and Approaches. A View from Russia

There is no point expecting that Russia will be prepared to pay the price for the Trump administration’s actions on the JCPOA that have not only jeopardized the existence of that deal but also wrought damage to Russian interests.

Sergey Batsanov, Vladislav Chernavskikh, Anton Khlopkov

Alexander Baunov

А journalist, publicist, philologist, and a former diplomat. He is the editor-in-chief of Carnegie.ru.

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06.06.2018

Truth Without Borders: Why Faking a Journalist’s Death Won’t Help Ukraine

As the world debates the danger of manipulating public opinion through fake news, Ukraine has created a false narrative of global significance. Blurring the borders of truth is unlikely to help Ukraine in the long run. But the country’s desire for a spectacular victory over its enemy outweighed other concerns.

Alexander Baunov

13.03.2018

A Hi-Tech Russian Doll: Putin’s Fourth-Term Reboot

Putin’s goal is now neither to recreate the USSR, nor to become part of the West. Rather, the ambition is to build an economic and technological “West” inside Russia, while continuing an aggressive posture towards the West on the outside.

Alexander Baunov

26.12.2017

From Last to First?

As it aspires to join the elite world club of equal sovereigns, Russia cannot but notice an important fact that no such club actually exists. The simple reason is that the club’s membership is conditioned on mutual transparency and permeability of sovereignties and correlation of sovereign actions with the values understood as the red lines in what one says and does.

Alexander Baunov

Darya Yu. Bazarkina

DSc (Political Science)
Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Department of European Integration Research
Leading Researcher;
Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russia
Department of the International Security and Foreign Policy of Russia
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