Russia in Global Affairs

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Ivan A. Safranchuk

PhD in Political Science
MGIMO University, Moscow, Russia
Department of International Studies and Foreign Policy of Russia
Professor

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ORCID: 0000-0003-2214-6628
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E-mail: [email protected]
Address: Office 4101, 76 Vernadsky Prospect, Moscow 119454, Russia

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01.04.2024

The Intervention That Originated the Post-Cold War Order

The events, which climaxed in early 1991 with the U.S.-led Desert Storm, were the first manifestation of the “new world order.” Amid today’s dramatic events, it is useful to recall how the Soviet Union and the United States tried to become partners in shaping the then new—and now collapsing—U.S.-centric world order.

Ivan A. Safranchuk, Andrei A. Sushentsov

01.07.2023

Africa and the Ukraine Crisis: Exploring Attitudes

Attempts to encourage changes in the positions of African states by carrot and stick have limits. The distancing of African countries from both Russia and the United States was not the result of policy reformulation by African countries, but primarily because Russia and the United States themselves had changed and radicalized their approaches.

Ivan A. Safranchuk, Alexander D. Nesmashnyi, Daniil N. Chernov

21.10.2022

A Reverse Cuban Missile Crisis: Fading Red Lines

Relations between Russia and the U.S. have been degrading steadily, but even the Ukraine crisis has not yet become the equivalent of the Cuban missile crisis.

Ivan A. Safranchuk

Richard Sakwa

University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Professor Emeritus of Politics

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Address: University of Kent, Keynes College, Canterbury CT2 7NP, UK

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01.01.2023

Crisis of the International System and International Politics

The fossilized structures of the Cold War reproduce themselves in new forms, prompting conflict and global polarization. The political West is now challenged by the steadily constituting political East, a process that may restore balance in international politics.

Richard Sakwa

30.04.2020

Normality: Coronavirus and State Transformation

A crisis is a moment of reflection in the life of a community. The response to a challenge is as important as the summons itself. In the case of Covid-19, the crisis is the most profound in living memory. Like a neutron bomb, it destroys people but not the physical infrastructure. It prowls unseen, and the threat of contagion pushes people apart. No less important, it undermines accustomed models of normality, the ‘common sense’ of an era, and breaks boundaries that had hitherto been sacrosanct.

Richard Sakwa

08.10.2019

The International System and Models of Global Order

An international system in which multiple models compete may be more balanced, ordered and innovative than a hegemonic one, and allow the common challenges facing humanity to be managed more coherently.

Richard Sakwa

Marwan Salamah

A Kuwaiti economic and management consultant.

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13.12.2023

Palestinian Tragedy – Trends and the Non-Sequitur

Can the Arabs feel safe and secure while an unfettered Israel, which disregards all agreements and all UN Security Council resolutions, roams freely in their midst? A 100-year-old persistent trendline speaks very loudly, even the deaf can hear it.

Marwan Salamah

03.07.2023

To Nuke Europe or Not to Nuke It – How does the Rest of the World See It?

Russia, by now, should have adapted to Russophobia and become inured to it. It may find it much more beneficial to continue its global positive and peaceful policies and actions, rather than spook the world with nuclear saber-rattling - it would certainly be a lot safer.

Marwan Salamah

Lluc Salellas

Lluc Salellas — journalist and political scientist

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18.09.2017

Pro-Catalan Independence Party Member: People Need to Go to Polls

The referendum on the future of Catalonia is scheduled for October, 1. With the national government opposing the vote, the results of the upcoming event remains unclear.

Lluc Salellas

Walid Salem

Director of the Palestinian Center for Democracy and Community Development

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11.12.2017

How Trump’s Decision on Jerusalem Can Give Momentum to Palestinian Statehood

The Palestinian response to Donald Trump’s move might take one of two shapes: to give him a chance to develop the “ultimate deal” and present it to the parties in the coming months or to transform the hit into an opportunity to get their right of self-determination in their independent state.

Walid Salem

Marcel R. Salikhov

National Research University–Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs
School of World Economy,
Visiting Lecturer;
Institute for Public Administration and Governance
Centre for Economic Expert Analysis
Chief Expert, Director

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E-mail: [email protected]
Address: Room 430, 17 Malaya Ordynka Str., Moscow

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01.01.2023

Food/Energy Security and Global Markets

Current geopolitical divisions are causing global markets to stop functioning normally. Markets themselves have become fragmented, supply chains are more unsafe, and incentives to invest in and expand production have weakened.

Marcel R. Salikhov

20.12.2009

Financial Architecture: Urgent Repair

Russia’s role in the world financial architecture is unlikely to be as significant as many would wish it to be, but given sensible alliances and compromises, it may become quite sufficient for protecting its national interests. The current situation should be used to modernize Russia’s own financial system, increase its resistance to external shocks, and its ability to convert internal savings into domestic investments in development.

Leonid Grigoriev, Marcel R. Salikhov

13.10.2006

Uncompleted Transition

Inherent weaknesses of the newly independent countries include not only high social costs and poor product quality, but also a shortage of managerial capital with the experience and abilities required to successfully compete on the global market.

Leonid Grigoriev, Marcel R. Salikhov

Pavel Salin

Director of the Center for Political Studies at the Financial University under the Russian Government. He holds a Doctorate in Law.

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26.12.2017

The Hierarchy of Equals

Moscow needs to revise its attitude to the key element of the former world order based on the centers of power—the concept of zones of exclusive influence. This will help it neutralize negative processes in the post-Soviet space, a region which it considers a zone of its exclusive influence.

Pavel Salin

13.02.2017

A Hunt for “Free Agents”

A “free agent” in the present world may be any influential actor in international processes. To effectively use the “free agent” concept, it is necessary to renounce zero-sum thinking where the West’s gain is necessarily perceived as Russia’s loss, and vice versa.

Pavel Salin

26.10.2013

Spiritual Values to Cement the Eurasian Union

In addition to purely economic arguments, one needs some ideological basis for a Eurasian Union. The other factor is whether or not the integration policy will be continued after a new generation of the elites comes to power, and the nature of relationships between new leaders.

Pavel Salin

Alexei Salmin

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01.12.2003

Russian Statehood: Back to the Future

There are only a handful of people in Russia today who would take the trouble of studying the origins of the republican form of government in their country. Remarkably enough, Russia does not observe Republic Day, while the people are reluctant to scrutinize the nature of the state power now in effect. In the meantime, this subject necessarily becomes the focus of attention and a source of national pride in any country that can claim the legitimacy of its statehood.

Alexei Salmin

Mehdi Sanaei

Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Tehran

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Address: University of Tehran, Enghelab Str., Tehran 14395-515, Iran

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15.09.2021

Iran’s Eastern Policy: Potential and Challenges

The security game between the West and Iran is evolving towards complexity, pressure and restrictions, making Iran’s Eastern strategy the only viable option in the future.

Mehdi Sanaei, Jahangir Karami

23.03.2020

The World Order in the Post-Coronavirus Era

Internationalists hope that multilateralism will eventually overcome unilateralism in the global arena, international cooperation will replace nationalism, and authoritarianism will leave the world scene. These thinkers are optimistic that the coronavirus crisis will make the world look for a more coordinated approach to solving complicated problems and preventing major catastrophes.

Mehdi Sanaei

08.08.2007

Problems and Prospects of Iranian-Russian Relations

While Iran perceives its relations with Russia through the prism of international politics and gives secondary importance to purely bilateral issues, Moscow emphasizes bilateralism and does not need Teheran as a strong international partner. The Russian authorities have put an upper limit on relations with Iran even at the regional level.

Mehdi Sanaei

Jacques Santer

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22.05.2003

The Voice of Europe Must Be Heeded

Russia has supported France and Germany in their outspoken opposition to the Iraqi campaign. This is a significant development which gives positive direction to Russia’s further cooperation with Europe in international affairs. Now efforts must be made to empower the EU to speak as one voice on the international stage.

Jacques Santer

Jacques Sapir

Director of studies at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and head of the Centre d’Étude des Modes d’Industrialisation (CEMI-EHESS).

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12.06.2023

Crises Ahead!

This is undoubtedly the first time in many years that the world economy has been threatened by three crises, each quite distinct in its origins, but whose consequences are intertwined.

Jacques Sapir

03.03.2023

Will EU Sanctions Produce a Winner and a Loser?

The feedback effects of sanctions on European economies have yet to be fully revealed. The sum of these effects, the so-called “boomerang effects”, will indeed only be known within a year. It could turn out to be far greater than the effects on Russia. In the long term, Russia may well do well while the EU, mired in thoughtless support for Ukraine, may have to pay a prohibitive price.

Jacques Sapir

18.10.2022

Winter Is Coming: Social Expectations from the First Military Winter in Europe

The sanctions taken against Russia by EU countries are generating a major “boomerang effect,” one which could lead to a global energy crisis. The shock will probably be felt by the EU economy this winter and afterwards. It is therefore at this time that crucial political questions will arise regarding the expediency of the EU countries’ policy towards Russia.

Jacques Sapir

Simon Saradzhyan

Research fellow at Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.

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06.11.2020

Is Stopping the War Between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Russia’s (Vital) Interest?

The benefits, which discontinuing the war on Russia’s terms can generate for defending or advancing Russia’s vital interests, will exceed the costs of doing so.

Simon Saradzhyan

26.04.2018

Armenia: Why Has Vladimir Putin Not Intervened So Far and Will He?

The resignation of Armenia’s Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan after more than a week of mass protests in Russia’s backyard begs the question: Why has Moscow not intervened so far?

Simon Saradzhyan

31.08.2017

Yes, Russian Generals Are Preparing for War. That Doesn’t Necessarily Mean the Kremlin Wants to Start One

Russia’s annual strategic military exercises are set to begin Sept. 14, but speculation has been mounting for months that the week-long Zapad-2017 war games in Russia and Belarus might be a prelude to some sort of invasion.

Simon Saradzhyan

Artur Saradzhyan

Artur Saradzhyan is 12^th grade student at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Cambridge, MA.

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12.10.2012

Cuban Crisis: 50 years later

The Cuban Missile Crisis marked a turning point in the debate in the U.S. policy-making community over whether the nuclear war was winnable.

Artur Saradzhyan

Jose Saramago

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24.03.2003

Why I Support the Antiglobalists

Economic globalization is a new form or totalitarianism. It is impossible to speak of democracy in earnest when real power is not in the hands of governments elected by their citizens, but rather in the hands of transnational monopolies which no one has elected.

Jose Saramago

Hriday Ch. Sarma

Indian lawyer and an independent researcher working on energy affairs in Greater Eurasia

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27.03.2024

Russia Building a New Energy World Order

Russia’s trajectory towards establishing a BRICS plus Africa Energy Order underlines its strategic pivot towards the development of a new global energy order, mainly by encompassing the fast-developing and developing nations worldwide.

Hriday Ch. Sarma

Yevgeny Satanovsky

Yevgeny Satanovsky is President of the Institute of the Middle East.

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13.12.2015

Between a Crisis and a Catastrophe

By the middle of the second decade of the 21st century it has become clear that the world is moving towards a balance of power that was more typical of the 17th and 18th centuries, with the appropriate geopolitical adjustments. Western influence, with its possibilities and military capabilities, is decreasing, while the East and the South are rising.

Yevgeny Satanovsky

27.03.2011

Revolutions and Democracy in the Islamic World

With growing presence of China, India and Iran the composition of players and the alignment of forces in the Middle East in the 21st century will look more like that in the 17th century than the 20th. This fits in perfectly with the theory of historical cycles, although it may appear disappointing, if looked at from the positions of Paris, London, Brussels or Washington.

Yevgeny Satanovsky

30.07.2005

A New Middle East

The engagement of external powers in the Middle East has failed to resolve any of the conflicts now tearing the region apart; the problems have been driven into the corner and may flare up again anytime after external pressures are gone.

Yevgeny Satanovsky

Robert A. Saunders

Professor, Farmingdale State College, a campus of the State University of New York (SUNY)

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21.11.2005

Between Assimilation, Irredenta, and Globalization

Russians have had acute difficulties in coming to terms with their status as minorities in the unwelcoming — sometimes openly hostile — successor states of the Soviet Union. Severed mentally, politically, and geographically from their homeland, these “new” immigrants have had to rethink what it means to be part of a diaspora community and to mentally place themselves within that conceptual space.

Robert A. Saunders

10.11.2004

Nationality: Cyber-Russian

Cyberspace offers great promise for the preservation of identity and national culture. Through computer-mediated communication, nations – especially challenged nations like the Russians in the ‘Near Abroad’ – have the ability to maintain and reinforce their identity in new and compelling ways.

Robert A. Saunders

Paul Saunders

Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Center for the National Interest.

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23.12.2019

Has Russia Established a New International Role?

Whether Moscow can build a broader international role is not apparent; it will require more than filling in the spaces that the United States leaves blank. Doing so on a long-term basis will also require preparing for the next inevitable cycle of American activism.

Paul Saunders

28.04.2018

A US Withdrawal from Syria?

President Donald Trump’s decision to launch missile attacks against Syrian chemical weapons targets has done little to dispel fears among some US allies, and some in the American foreign policy establishment, that Trump may follow through on his March statement that America would be “coming out of Syria, like, very soon.”

Paul Saunders

22.09.2017

Russia sees Saudi Arabia as ‘gatekeeper’ to Mideast

Russian officials say Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud is coming to Moscow for a visit, but the kingdom has been playing coy, perhaps as a bargaining tactic.

Paul Saunders

Anatoly E. Savchenko

PhD in History
Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Far Eastern Branch
Deputy Director

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01.04.2024

Beware of How you Walk on a Rocky Path

In the 1980s-1990s, two socialist countries—the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China—carried out deep and comprehensive reforms. However, the result turned out to be the exact opposite. One of the key factors behind the difference in results is the policy of relations between the center and the regions.

Ivan Yu. Zuenko, Anatoly E. Savchenko

Alina Savelieva

Alina Savelyeva is an assistant lecturer at the Department of World Economy and World Politics at the Higher School of Economics–State University (HSE)

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15.10.2010

Daily Bread and Water

Russia should naturally specialize in the economic sectors that require big quantities of land and water. And if the production in these sectors is propped up by a dynamically growing global demand, they have every right to claim the priority status in the national strategy of economic development.

Anastasia B. Likhacheva, Alina Savelieva, Igor A. Makarov

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