Russia in Global Affairs

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No. 3

2011 July/September

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Contents

A Disintegrating World

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

The World Order Crisis

Time for Financial Repression

Sergey K. Dubinin

The Last Peaceful Days?

The Arab Spring: What Season Comes Next?

Moving From the Bottom Up and Back Down Again

Vitaly V. Naumkin

Approaching a Post-Oil Era

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

Shia Islam and Great-Powerness

Alexander Lukoyanov

Ex Oriente Lux?

Russia and Asia, or Russia within Asia?

The “Power of &”

Synthesizing Traditional Chinese Values with Liberal Democracy

A Challenged Neighborhood

Alexander Panov

A Focus on the Caucasus

Russia in Transcaucasia: What’s Gone Wrong?

Andrey Yepifantsev

History as a Weapon

Sergey M. Markedonov

Where Fields of Attraction Overlap

Rasim Musabekov

Rules of the Game

Eurasia’s Pipeline Tangle

Adam N Stulberg

Double Dividend to Replace Global Altruism

Igor A. Makarov

A Persisting Past

A Russian Mr. Hyde

Nikolai Silayev

Articles

A Disintegrating World

The summer of 2011 gave no break to global politics.

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

Time for Financial Repression

The Russian authorities have succeeded in easing the consequences of the economic and financial crisis of 2008-2009 for the population. At the same time, the crisis has exposed structural weaknesses of the Russian economy. The stabilization of economic growth and revenue in the first decade of the 21st cen- tury did not lay the groundwork for long-term development.

Sergey K. Dubinin

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.

Moving From the Bottom Up and Back Down Again

Many analysts believe the dramatic changes that the global international system is undergoing now are a continuation of a long-term reconfiguration of the world that started back in the 1980s.

Vitaly V. Naumkin

Approaching a Post-Oil Era

The participatory pressures generated by the Arab Spring are reshaping the political landscape in the Middle East and North Africa.

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

Shia Islam and Great-Powerness

The developments in the Arab world in the winter and spring of 2011 caused analysts to take a new look at the situation in Iran.

Alexander Lukoyanov

Russia and Asia, or Russia within Asia?

The world crisis has spurred the already high rate of processes taking place in the Asia-Pacific region, forcing its transformation into a major center of world politics.

The “Power of &”

The place of China as a leading actor in Asian regionalism is increasingly understood today and seems almost inevitable for the future. The only controversy about China’s role in regional leadership is not whether it can lead but whether it will dominate others and displace America’s hegemony.

Synthesizing Traditional Chinese Values with Liberal Democracy

With the rapid and continuous growth of the Chinese economy during the past three decades, China’s presence has increasingly been felt on the global stage.

A Challenged Neighborhood

A mounting dispute has arisen in the past two years between Russia and Japan over a peace treaty that the two countries never signed after World War II.

Alexander Panov

Russia in Transcaucasia: What’s Gone Wrong?

There has been much talk over the past few years that Russia is losing the Caucasus by making one political mistake after another.

Andrey Yepifantsev

History as a Weapon

The geopolitical landscape of the Caucasus has recently been brushed over with new bright strokes.

Sergey M. Markedonov

Where Fields of Attraction Overlap

For many centuries, rivalry among Turkey, Iran and Russia determined the geopolitics of the South Caucasus. In the 19th and 20th centuries other actors asserted their presence, too.

Rasim Musabekov

Eurasia’s Pipeline Tangle

Russia’s “gas wars” with Ukraine and Belarus and pointed objections to Europe’s “third energy package,” as well as heated competition to develop rival and commercially dubious “southern” energy transit routes, have re-ignited concerns about pipeline politics across Eurasia.

Adam N Stulberg

Double Dividend to Replace Global Altruism

The human race has entered an era of climate crisis. Right before our eyes the habitat is exposed to a variety of disastrous effects.

Igor A. Makarov

A Russian Mr. Hyde

An unsuccessful attempt to galvanize Stalin by declaring him an “effective manager” (incidentally, this is a glaring instance of insensitivity to the Russian language, because the phrase “effective manager” sounds sarcastic today) failed not only because the government stopped it. The campaign bumped into society’s stubborn, albeit silent, resistance.

Nikolai Silayev