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No. 1

2018 January/March

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Contents

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

2002

Back to the Concert

Vyacheslav Nikonov

2003

A World Without Superpowers

Yevgeny Primakov

2004

Ukraine’s Nuclear Ambitions

2006

Back into the Future, Or Cold War Lessons for Russia

2007

A New Epoch of Confrontation

Sergei A. Karaganov

2008

The Undying Echo of the Past

Alexei I. Miller

Traveling in Different Boats

Ivan A. Safranchuk

2011

The Island of Russia

Nikolay Spasskiy

2013

The Yugoslav Prelude

Anatoly Adamishin

Vladimir Putin’s Fourth Vector

Dmitry V. Trenin

2014

Collapse of the World Order?

Crossing Red Lines

Dmitry V. Yefremenko

2015

Marxism in the Post-Globalization Era

Boris Kagarlitsky

2016

Worse Than During the Cold War

Russia’s Foreign Policy in a Historical Perspective

Sergei V. Lavrov

2017

The Guns of April, Or the Return of Strategic Frivolity

Timofei V. Bordachev

Articles

Well into the night late 2002, when the city was fast asleep, two windows were brightly lit in one of the side streets in central Moscow. If someone in the building across the street had cast a look at them, he would have seen the silhouettes of people, about six or so, moving chaotically behind the glass.

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

Back to the Concert

A concert of powers in which European nations performed throughout the 19th century provided for peace and tranquility on the continent for almost a hundred years. Today, in an era of overall domination by one country and collapse of the former international architecture, it is time to recall the principles of that Concert. But now the Concert will have to be played according to global scores of the new millennium.

Vyacheslav Nikonov

A World Without Superpowers

September 11, 2001, is popularly believed to be the watershed event. Indeed, the “mega terror” acts in New York and Washington made people take a new look at the world, at least from two vantage points.

Yevgeny Primakov

Ukraine’s Nuclear Ambitions

In the eyes of many, the possession of the nuclear bomb is a symbol of special military-political might and of belonging to a select group. The experience of the difficult negotiations with Ukraine, in the course of which Kiev was persuaded—in the long last—to give up the nuclear arsenal it had inherited from the U.S.S.R., can be of use to those who now have to address similar problems with other countries.

Back into the Future, Or Cold War Lessons for Russia

It is now time to recognize that the reform of the early 1990s was wrong. Such a complex and unique system as the Soviet militarized economy cannot be restructured by pseudo-market methods. First of all, it should be demilitarized on the administrative level, mobilizing the entire power of the state, and only then can a market economy begin to be built.

A New Epoch of Confrontation

Many analysts in Moscow argue that the political and propaganda pressure being exerted by the West on Russia is the result of Russia’s growth. But this Western pressure is more of a counterattack against Russia than a direct attack intended to prevent a further weakening of the West’s positions and possibly win them back. This counterattack is an important constituent feature of a “New Epoch of Confrontation.”

Sergei A. Karaganov

The Undying Echo of the Past

There is a great risk of getting mired in counterproductive discussions about the frontiers of the European model of historical development. References to the history of one region or another or one nation or another as “European” or “non-European” are unscrupulously used today inside the EU itself and along its periphery when it comes to discussing whether the region or nation deserves to be a member of a united Europe.

Alexei I. Miller

Traveling in Different Boats

Relations between Russia and the United States are acquiring a new quality. Moscow and Washington can cooperate on certain individual issues, but strategically they are now on their own—certainly not in the same boat.

Ivan A. Safranchuk

The Island of Russia

There is no greater joy for a Russian intellectual than to speculate about a decline of America. The problem is that the Russians still do not see any other worthy role for their country in the 21st century than the role of a superpower, as a state that realizes itself primarily through influence on global processes.

Nikolay Spasskiy

The Yugoslav Prelude

Proceeding from their current interests, more powerful countries often ignore the fact that, as a rule, there is no right or wrong party in domestic conflicts and civil wars; indeed, the responsibility often lies with both sides.

Anatoly Adamishin

Vladimir Putin’s Fourth Vector

Tendencies will continue—a geopolitical shift towards Eurasia and the Asia Pacific Region; symbolic ‘sovereignization’ of Russia and its further distancing from the U.S. and Europe; and the erosion of a foreign policy consensus. The fourth edition of Putin’s foreign policy will most likely differ significantly from the previous three.

Dmitry V. Trenin

Collapse of the World Order?

Moscow appears to be unprepared for polycentrism as it has not yet grasped its basic rule, which was well known to Russian chancellors of the 19th century: one should make compromises on individual issues in order to have closer relations with other centers of power than they have among themselves.

Crossing Red Lines

The Ukrainian crisis is just ushering in a series of conflicts amid which a polycentric system of international relations will form. An effective multilateral mechanism must be created for preventing and settling crises in Europe and North Eurasia.

Dmitry V. Yefremenko

Marxism in the Post-Globalization Era

The global crisis that started in 2008 signaled the end of the era of neoliberal globalization but not the end of the processes it engendered. We can move forward, using the theoretical legacy left to us by the great thinkers of the Enlightenment and the ideologists of the liberation movement. Like it or not, Karl Marx remains the greatest of them.

Boris Kagarlitsky

Worse Than During the Cold War

Neither Ukraine nor Syria has eased psychological tension so far. The United States and partly Russia do not think they have reached the dangerous point. Apparently they still need a bigger crisis to finally settle their issues.

Russia’s Foreign Policy in a Historical Perspective

The principle stated by George Orwell that all are equal but some are more equal than others seems to have been adopted at the international level. This is vividly borne out by the outcome of American interference in the Middle East countries and elsewhere. Russia will continue to espouse the principles of law and justice in international affairs.

Sergei V. Lavrov

The Guns of April, Or the Return of Strategic Frivolity

Today mutual respect is probably the scarcest commodity in relations between great or even just major powers. This is particularly visible in the divide between the West and the Rest.

Timofei V. Bordachev