Russia in Global Affairs

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Richard Lachmann

1956 – 2021

Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

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27.02.2018

Why Is the Right Winning in Latin America?

Latin America was celebrated and reviled in the first decade of this century as the place where neoliberalism had been successfully challenged.

Richard Lachmann

20.12.2017

Does Trump’s Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital Matter?

President Trump announced that the U.S. was recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and would move the American embassy to that city from Tel Aviv.

Richard Lachmann

10.07.2017

North Korea and the Limits of Trump’s and America’s Power

Not for the first time in the past century, Korea is the most dangerous place on Earth. Kim Jong Un’s nuclear weapons and missile program is making seemingly rapid progress. The July 4 test demonstrated that North Korea is getting closer to building a missile that can deliver a nuclear warhead or chemical weapons to the continental United States. Even though North Korea is not yet capable of such an attack, it almost certainly will be within the next ten years.

Richard Lachmann

Andrei N. Lankov

Kookmin University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Professor

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Address: Kookmin University, 77 Jeongneung-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02707, Korea

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13.04.2022

One Grand Disillusion

In the broadest terms, the situation in the international relations theory can be described as a clash between two main schools—realist and liberal. The realists’ leading voices are John Mearsheimer and Kenneth Waltz, while the liberals’ mastermind is John Ikenberry. Richard Hanania’s new book challenges both camps by offering a new vision of how U.S. foreign policy is shaped.

Andrei N. Lankov

13.02.2022

South Korean Presidential Election: Why Former Left-Wing Radicals Become Staunch US Allies

Presidential elections will be held in South Korea in early March. Given that there will be about a dozen candidates, as one might expect, everyone understands that the real struggle for the presidency will be led by representatives of the country’s two main political camps: Yoon Seok-youl and Lee Jae-myung. Nobody can predict the outcome of the elections, so that everything will be decided in the last days or even hours.

Andrei N. Lankov

07.09.2020

North Korean Labor Export to the USSR/Russia

Russia will need cheap labor while North Korea will need hard currency and will produce only a small number of sellable items. So, even if all workers left Russia now (a big if), they would in all probability return, sooner or later.

Andrei N. Lankov

Viktor Larin

Director of the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East at the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is Doctor of History and Professor at the Far Eastern Federal University.

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28.11.2017

Looking into the Future: Russia and Asia in the Next 20 Years

The Asian center of economic growth will move to the south, and the developed countries will try to adapt foreign labor migration to the needs of high-tech production.

Viktor Larin

15.05.2017

One Belt, One Road. Russia and China Can Solve Political Problems through Economy

On May 14-15 Beijing hosted The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. Russian President Vladimir Putin in his speech spoke about prospects for cooperation with Russia in the implementation of the Chinese New Silk Road economic initiative.

Viktor Larin

22.09.2015

Staying On Track

A trilateral dialogue between Russia, China, and the United States can become the core of a new security system in the Pacific, with other countries and territories in the region gradually joining in. Multilateral cooperation in the North Pacific is a fundamental objective. It will require a transition from the bloc system and allied relations to a multilateral format.

Viktor Larin

Marina Larionova

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13.05.2007

Monitoring Compliance with St. Petersburg Summit Commitments

Over 32 years of its history, the G7/G8 has expanded both its agenda and institutional system, and is now appreciated as an instrument of deliberation, direction-giving and decision-making on global governance issues. It has also become a subject for criticism and reform proposals. The critique mainly focuses on the forum’s representativeness, legitimacy and effectiveness.

Marina Larionova

Marlene Laruelle

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Research Professor, Director, Institutefor European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Co-Director of PONARS Eurasia

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11.01.2023

What’s Next? The Relations between Russia and the West in a Time of Uncertainty

On November 29 the seminar 'What’s Next?: The Relations between Russia and the West in a Time of Uncertainty?' was held at HSE University, featuring Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs, and Marlene Laruelle, Director and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University.

Fyodor A. Lukyanov, Marlene Laruelle

24.12.2020

Accusing Russia of Fascism

Memory wars around the interpretation of the Second World War/Great Patriotic War continue to rage between Central and Eastern European countries and Russia, with European institutions being hostage to these conflictual narratives.

Marlene Laruelle

Murat Laumulin

Chief researcher at the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies in Almaty. He holds a Doctorate in Political Science.

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07.10.2012

Virtual Security of Central Asia

If the new/old Russian leadership pursues integration in the military-political sphere with the same zeal as it did in the establishment of the Customs Union, the Common Economic Space and the Eurasian Union, hopefully there will be progress in the CSTO’s transformation, as well.

Murat Laumulin

25.03.2012

Returning to a Place That No Longer Exists

Entire generations of people born in the former Soviet Union would wholeheartedly support unification, but a logical question arises: With whom are we going to unite? A country that has assimilated the worst from Western capitalism, rampant with xenophobia and domestic racism, and which is suffering from a demographic and technological decline? A country whose economy is controlled by the mafia and oligarchs?

Murat Laumulin

Sergei V. Lavrov

PhD in History
Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Center for World Politics and Strategic Analysis
Junior Research Fellow

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Address: 32 Nakhimovsky Prospect, Moscow 117997, Russia

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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

Sergei V. Lavrov

Russian Foreign Minister since 2004

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05.05.2023

Genuine Multilateralism and Diplomacy vs the “Rules-Based Order”

Genuine multilateralism requires that the UN adapt to objective developments in the process of forming a multipolar architecture of international relations. It is imperative to expedite Security Council reform by expanding the representation of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The inordinate over-representation of the West in the UN’s main body undermines the principle of multilateralism.

Sergei V. Lavrov

28.06.2021

On Law, Rights and Rules

By imposing the concept of a rules-based order, the West seeks to shift the discussion on key issues to the platforms of its liking, where no dissident voices are allowed.

Sergei V. Lavrov

24.12.2019

The World at a Crossroads and a System of International Relations for the Future

Will the multipolar world continue to take shape through cooperation and harmonization of interests or through confrontation and rivalry? This depends on all of us. It is now important to start a strategic dialogue on concrete threats and risks and to seek consensus on a commonly acceptable agenda.

Sergei V. Lavrov

Anton Lavrov

Anton Lavrov is an independent aviation analyst and an authoritative Russian researcher of the 2008 Russian-Georgian War. Originally published in: “Tanks of August,” Center of Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), 2009.

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09.04.2010

After the War

Since the time when the Russian military bases were deployed in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the number of conflicts and cross-border skirmishes between Georgia and the new states, which it refuses to recognize, has decreased, and their intensity has declined greatly.

Anton Lavrov

Vasilii V. Lebedev

University of Tokyo, Japan
Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology
Postgraduate Student in East Asian History

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Address: Japan, Tokyo-to, Bunkyo-ku, Sendagi-5-39-2, 101.

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15.03.2021

North Korea’s Ideology and Propaganda: Signs of Change

In a word, of all the newly developed trends in the DPRK ideology we should first of all list the “rationalization of propaganda” and the official narrative’s departure from fantastic plots, which are gradually transformed into metaphors to highlight a certain virtue.

Konstantin V. Asmolov, Vasilii V. Lebedev

Robert Legvold

Professor Emeritus at the Department of Political Science, Columbia University, New York, USA

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13.12.2021

The Dialectics of Confrontation

Thirty years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, we have moved towards a world in which all countries are becoming protective of their economies and trying to pass the burden of declining outputs and unemployment onto others.

Yevgeny G. Vodolazkin, Ivan Krastev, Kishore Mahbubani, Ilter Turan, Chas W. Freeman, Jr., Wu Enyuan, Robert Legvold

22.01.2018

Trump’s First Year in Office: the Impact Is Profound and Controversial

Donald Trump enters the second year of his presidency as one of the most controversial politicians in the US history. Opinions vary greatly, but one thing is clear: the past year has been marked by fundamental changes in the United States’ domestic and foreign policy, with many results of the previous administration virtually wiped out.

Robert Legvold, Edward Nicolae Luttwak

06.06.2017

Into the Unknown

Russian and U.S. leaders have choices of far greater portent than either appears to realize. Narrow preoccupations, occluded politics, and the ascendance of small-minded thinking on both sides at all levels may be inescapable. If so, the great powers will again sleepwalk through defining moments of history—and pay a price.

Robert Legvold

Jean-Pierre Lehmann

Emeritus Professor, IMD, and Founder of the Evian Group, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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30.06.2013

Global Transformation: The Eurasian Open Economic Space

The profound transformations occurring in the global economy are inevitably causing disruption, confusion and tensions. The proposal for the establishment of a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the U.S. and the EU might seriously exacerbate the situation and lead to the establishment of rival economic blocs.

Jean-Pierre Lehmann

02.03.2008

Is Free Trade Heading for Eclipse?

Rising insecurity, the uncharted and seemingly turbulent waters in which the global economic ship is heading, is occurring amidst frightening environmental degradation and climate change, apprehensions related to “identification” and immigration, the steep decline of the U.S. and the quagmire of the Middle East, the seemingly daunting industrial and financial muscle of China, rising inequality and high levels of poverty, and the fear of possible devastating pandemics.

Jean-Pierre Lehmann

Yana V. Leksyutina

Doctor of Political Science
Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
School of International Relations
American Studies Department
Professor

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01.04.2024

Chinese Policy in Central Asia in the Estimation of Chinese Experts

To counteract the U.S. policy of containing China, and to further develop its diplomacy in Central Asia, China prioritizes the development of relations with Russia. Chinese policy in the region is aimed not at harming Russia’s positions, but at achieving a harmonious co-presence with Russia, while preventing unfriendly powers (currently the United States) from gaining a firmer foothold.

Stanislaw Lem

U.S. President George W. Bush is planning to return the Americans to the Moon, and then on to Mars. But alas, the grandiose plans are less a daring desire to explore the universe than a cunning political reckoning and pre-election move.

Stanislaw Lem

Maria Lenchenko

Political analyst.

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01.06.2020

THE FUTURE OF RUSSIA AND AUTOCRACY FOR THE XXI CENTURY

Russia of the future is a social Empire based on the principle of “autocracy”, not in the sense of restoring the monarchy, but in the sense of true people power, where we (Russians) led by a strong leader hold ourselves. The constitutional provision on people power is implemented through the unity of the vertical of power of the popularly elected national leader and the horizontal of power resulting from effective local self-administration. Elites are nationalized, bureaucracy is put in the service of the Fatherland and does not have political powers.

Andrej Ilnitskij, Maria Lenchenko

Laszlo Lengyel

Budapest University of Technology and Economics · Department of Automation and Applied Informatics

PhD

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24.09.2011

The Last Peaceful Days?

The economic and political crisis of 2008-2010 has had an unexpected impact by calling into question the success of the third wave of democratization in Europe.

Laszlo Lengyel

Mark Leonard

Director of European Council on Foreign Relations

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09.09.2016

Europe Seen From the Outside — the British View

A political counter-revolution against the European Union is underway. Brexit is likely to be seen in hindsight as just the first of many tremors leading up to a larger political earthquake that will be felt all over the European continent.

Mark Leonard

Sergey Leonidov

Church historian.

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11.10.2020

Baltic Rehearsal

In the 1990s Constantinople challenged the Russian Orthodox Church in Estonia. It was then that the contours of the ethno-phyletism Constantinople style became visible. In the longer term, they would serve as the basis for the Phanar’s policies in Ukraine.

Sergey Leonidov, Igor Prekup

Alexei Levinson

Head of the Sociocultural Research Department at the Levada Center.

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27.03.2011

A Smaller Empire?

Among the respondents favoring Chechen secession only a very small number believe that Chechnya should be entitled to independence by virtue of its right to self-determination. Remarkably, these respondents have Russia’s interests in mind (“It would be better for Russia”), not Chechnya’s.

Alexei Levinson

Alexandr Libman

Professor of international political economy at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management; a senior research fellow at the Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences. He holds a Doctorate in Economics.

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24.06.2012

Post-Soviet Integration Breakthrough

In the medium term, the Common Economic Space will face the dilemma of either “enlargement” or “intensification,” which is well known to Europeans. One of the main reasons behind the Customs Union’s success is that it has focused on a clear and rather narrow objective.

Evgeny Vinokurov, Alexandr Libman

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