Russia in Global Affairs

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Hamid Dabashi

Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York

Tsogtbaatar Damdin

Member of the People’s Great Khural of Mongolia

Sergey Datsyuk

Sergei Datsyuk is a Ukrainian philosopher and advisor to the Gardarika Strategic Consulting Corp.

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27.12.2013

Ukraine’s European Illusions

To enter a world where there is a highly developed mentality and infrastructure for a country that is not even relatively highly developed is to doom oneself to becoming a resource, to being subject to cynical use by European civilization, which is past the heyday of its intellectual development and strength.

Sergey Datsyuk

Ahmet Davutoglu

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09.04.2010

Fostering a Culture of Harmony

Turkey’s foreign policy has three main characteristics: it is vision-oriented, not crisis-oriented; it is proactive, not reactive; and it is integrated and systemic, operating across a 360-degree horizon. We pursue a policy of “zero problems” in our neighborhood. We believe that this is an achievable goal, if enough trust and confidence can be generated among the relevant parties.

Ahmet Davutoglu

Antonio De Bonis

Antonio De Bonis — researcher on Maf ia Type Organization and Terrorism Connections; Founder of Geocrime Organization, Rome, Italy

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12.11.2015

Мafia: the State and the Capitalist Economy. Competition or Convergence?

Modern society engenders a new type of criminal communities: a systemic mafia model. The modern mafia relies on the resources of the state and the capitalist economy, reserving for itself the independent right to violence.

Antonio De Bonis

Thomas Flichy de La Neuville

Thomas Flichy de La Neuville — professor of International Relations, University of Paris IV – Sorbonne, France

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28.07.2016

Winter and Spring Together, Geocultural Signs of Renewal Throughout Europe

Despite its deep crisis of identity, spawned by nihilistic elites who are both unable to give a sense to existence and to act in favour of the common good, France is marked by a discreet renewal.

Thomas Flichy de La Neuville

Vladimir Degoyev

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07.02.2006

The North Caucasus and the Future of Russian Statehood

The alienation of the North Caucasus and the subsequent reshaping of borders would mean that a country named Russia in its present form would cease to exist. This tough prognosis of the foreseeable future will occur as inevitably as a cyclical natural phenomenon if we allow the current tendencies to develop according to their natural logic.

Vladimir Degoyev

18.05.2005

«People Got Ready to Move…»

The voguish cliche of the perestroika period that "there is no alternative for us" initially forwarded the irreversibility of change, but soon acquired a belligerent revolutionary character, which overwhelmed even the moderates who usually take the time, at least, to look before leaping. The tragic irony was that while the majority was still debating on what it really wanted, the minority had already realized the importance of action.

Vladimir Degoyev

10.11.2004

Wider Europe’s Horizons in the Caucasus

Russia’s top political milieu is growing restive over the amassed Western penetration into Transcaucasia. The pragmatic West realizes only too well that whoever brings peace and affluence to the post-Soviet territories will have (overtly or covertly) the dominating positions there.

Vladimir Degoyev

Igor Delanoe

Deputy Director of the French Russian Analytical Center Observo

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17.07.2017

Trump’s Visit to France Marks Reversal in Trump’s ‘Isolation’

French President Emmanuel Macron will not attempt to pressure US President Donald Trump into any difficult situation, as his goal is to make the best of a difficult situation.

Igor Delanoe

Vincent Della Sala

Adjunct Professor of European and Eurasian Studies, Associate Professor at the School of International Studies and Faculty of Sociology of the University of Trento, Italy.

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12.10.2016

Power-Sharing in Europe: Models for the Ukraine?

Some form of power-sharing arrangement could pave the way to reconciling the conflict in the Ukraine and in relations between the EU and Russia is a valid one.

Vincent Della Sala

Jacques Delors

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13.05.2007

“Many Countries Are Sliding into Nationalism”

Building relations with Russia reminds of the process of integrating Europe. We began by establishing direct ties – first within the framework of the European Coal and Steel Community. So if tomorrow Russia and the EU come up with a good agreement that suits both parties from the point of view of oil and gas supplies, this will lend credence to their declarations that they are pursuing mutual forms of cooperation and joint responsibility.

Jacques Delors

Mikhail Delyagin

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08.03.2009

A Testing Ground for Modernization and a Showcase of Success

Russian support for Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which came about as a result of a number of circumstances, may play the role of a catalyst for Russia’s modernization, but the two territories are very different and require different approaches.

Mikhail Delyagin

02.03.2008

The Change in the External Factors of Russia’s Development

The Russian election campaign and related political events have distracted the public’s attention from the fact that the country has found itself in new circumstances. Luck, which has helped Moscow to greatly consolidate its positions over the past few years, is giving way to increasingly growing problems. The general situation may be far less favorable in the new political cycle.

Mikhail Delyagin

13.10.2006

Assessing Russia’s Energy Doctrine

Objectively, Russia's strategic goal is to gain full control over the gas and oil pipeline network across the post-Soviet space. Presently, the main priority of Russia’s energy strategy should be to block – at any cost and by any means – the implementation of a gas pipeline project from Kazakhstan to Turkey bypassing Russia, as well as all other projects that threaten to cut Russia off from vital gas sources.

Mikhail Delyagin

Oleg Demidov

A consultant at the PIR Center.

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27.02.2018

Increasing International Cooperation in Cybersecurity and Adapting Cyber Norms

Without increased cooperation, the global digital economy is vulnerable to catastrophic cyberattack.

Elena Chernenko, Oleg Demidov, Fyodor A. Lukyanov

22.09.2015

The Game of Rules

Not so long ago Russia was the only country to advocate the adoption of a code of responsible conduct in cyberspace. Today the expert community is already actively discussing the need for such a code with regard to the global Internet infrastructure.

Oleg Demidov, Elena Chernenko

Yekaterina Demintseva

Yekaterina Demintseva is a leading researcher at the Institute of Social Processes Management, Higher School of Economics.

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21.03.2014

The New Muscovites

Unlike in Paris or Berlin, where migrants live in districts that they consider their own, and researchers define them as “urban ghetto,” we found no such places in Moscow. In Moscow, any district a migrant visits most often or where he lives can become “his place.”

Yekaterina Demintseva

Mikhail Demurin

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12.10.2006

The Conflict of Civilizations: What Is in Store for Russia?

It would be better to avoid any more labor migrants, whose inflow has reached a scale likely to jeopardize the ethnic and cultural balance in Russia’s major cities and in the Russian Federation on the whole. Furthermore, their presence serves to provoke an increase of tensions between different ethnic groups.

Mikhail Demurin

30.07.2005

Russia and the Baltic States: Not a Case of «Flawed» History

The Baltic States’ claims to Russia concerning “occupation” and “annexation” of their territories have nothing to do with historical science; they are determined exclusively by political pursuits.

Mikhail Demurin

Igor Denisov

Senior research fellow at the Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organization Studies, Institute for International Studies at the Russian Foreign Ministry’s MGIMO University.

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23.04.2020

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 A. Safranchuk

19.03.2015

China Going West

The Silk Road Economic Belt has become an embodiment of the Chinese Dream in an international format. This is the first real foreign policy concept during China’s transition “from a big state to a strong one.”

Igor Denisov

Andrey Denisov

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15.06.2008

The Gains and Failures of the Energy Superpower

Russia failed to choose the correct tone that would facilitate building a steady system of mutually beneficial barter relations (energy resources for technologies and access to mineral wealth for access to markets). This is due in no small degree to major changes in the global situation that occurred after Putin’s election as president.

Andrey Denisov, Alexey Grivach

Alexei Denisov

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29.11.2002

On the Threshold of Modernization

In his survey of Russia’s domestic political scene the author holds that Russia today is about to enter a new stage in its post-Soviet development. The destructive stage that was part of Boris Yeltsin’s presidency was superseded by a stage of stabilization providing the substantive foundation for the first years of Vladimir Putin in power. Today, however, the stabilizing factors have spent themselves. A new stage in development, a stage of modernization, becomes an urgent necessity.

Alexei Denisov

Ettore Deodato

Ettore Deodato — Team Leader of a group of 16 people working the European Projects Office of the Policlinico and Medical School of Siena, Jean Monnet Professor, Adam Miczkiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Held various positions in the European Commission in the educational programs.

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19.08.2015

Universities as actors and instruments in diplomacy. The academic soft power potential

Why does higher educational internationalize? There are many rationales at the institutional level. In national strategies, the desire to be recognized as a nation with world class universities is one of the most important ones.

Iwona Borkowska, Ettore Deodato