Russia in Global Affairs

Medvedev has begun to chart a radical alternative path that outflanks both liberal and conservative ideology. His proposed “third way” gestures towards a pluralist, associational account of the state and the market – fostering groups, intermediary institutions, small-and medium-sized enterprise as well as regions, instead of relying exclusively on the sovereign will of the individual or the sovereign power of the collectivity.

Now it depends on the political will and courage of the American and Russian leadership to translate their common vision of a multi-polar and multilateral order into the reality of shared institutions and concrete policies. Nothing less than a new security doctrine is at stake.