Russia in Global Affairs

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No. 3

2019 July/September

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Everything on Display

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2019-17-3-5-6

Reconfiguration

The International System and Models of Global Order

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2019-17-3-8-31

Is the Conflict Inevitable? Not at All.

Vassily B. Kashin

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2019-17-3-32-36

Russia and Europe: Between Integration and Diplomacy

Timofei V. Bordachev

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2019-17-3-38-63

From Heaven to Earth

Dmitry V. Yefremenko

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2019-17-3-64-84

Warfare in the 21st Century

Rethinking Sanctions Efficiency

Ivan N. Timofeev

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2019-17-3-86-108

Unilateral Sanctions in a Multipolar World

Anastasia B. Likhacheva

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2019-17-3-109-131

Flexible Coalitions: Origins and Prospects

Konstantin V. Bogdanov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2019-17-3-132-150

Overcoming Conflicts

Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way

Igor Yu. Okunev

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2019-17-3-152-174

Per Aspera ad Pax

Alexander Aksenyonok

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2019-17-3-175-196

Interview

“The EU in its current form is a tragic mistake of the European history”

Vaclav Klaus, Glenn Diesen

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2019-17-3-198-202

Review

Admonishing the Doubting Flock

Alexei I. Miller

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2019-17-3-204-208

Articles

Everything on Display

Those who are used to thinking of foreign policy and diplomacy as some sort of ceremonious activity should forget the Congress of Vienna and Helsinki talks. The time of intellectual battles between responsible professionals behind closed doors is gone. Now everything is put on display.

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

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.

Is the Conflict Inevitable? Not at All.

In the sphere of international politics, Russia generally remains a more active and influential player than China. Despite the declared transition to “great power diplomacy,” the Chinese foreign policy system remains cumbersome and hardly capable of acting in conditions of risk and rapid change.

Vassily B. Kashin

Russia and Europe: Between Integration and Diplomacy

A return to practices which existed in relations between Russia and Europe before the crisis of 2014 is not viewed as reasonable by either party. However, in the mid-term perspective, the parties may build a new model of relationship based on unbiased assessment of systemic resources and constraints.

Timofei V. Bordachev

From Heaven to Earth

The “modified” version of common European memory politics is used ever more actively for geopolitical purposes to create a new mental frontier that is expected to divide the European geographic and cultural space once again, forcing Russia out, but retaining all other post-Soviet countries included in the Eastern Partnership program.

Dmitry V. Yefremenko

Rethinking Sanctions Efficiency

Businesses’ behavior is much different from that of states. While targeted states often show commitment to the behavior which had led to sanctions, businesses rather show conformity and agreeableness. Non-conformism cases are exceptional.

Ivan N. Timofeev

Unilateral Sanctions in a Multipolar World

As a systemic element of the international agenda, sanctions will stay there for decades because they reflect fundamental transformations in international spheres of influence. This factor should be taken into account when adopting state and interstate decisions.

Anastasia B. Likhacheva

Flexible Coalitions: Origins and Prospects

If the world order is stabilized through a new kind of bipolarity or major renovation of the global collective security system, flexible coalitions will by all means be absorbed by these structures as a specific instrument of limited use.

Konstantin V. Bogdanov

Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way

International experience has accumulated enough tools to resolve any territorial dispute. Success depends only on the competence of the negotiators and the political will of the leadership.

Igor Yu. Okunev

Per Aspera ad Pax

This article is an abridged version of the paper written for the International Valdai Discussion Club. The original version is available at: http://valdaiclub.com/a/valdai-papers/the-syrian-crisis-a-thorny-path-from-war-to-peace/ The…

Alexander Aksenyonok

“The EU in its current form is a tragic mistake of the European history”

We should try to convince the European nation-states to start thinking differently, not “continentally.” They should accept that Russia is a country with its authentic national interests.

Vaclav Klaus, Glenn Diesen

Admonishing the Doubting Flock

History, the end of which Fukuyama predicted some time ago with a big commercial success, has simply been negated by suggesting that interaction mechanisms concerning “identity” do not change over centuries.

Alexei I. Miller