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No. 2

2020 April/June

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The Doors Exist

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-2-5-8

SURVIVAL SCHOOL

International Institutions and the Challenge of the “First Pandemic War”

Timofei V. Bordachev

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-2-10-14

The Coronavirus Holds Up a Mirror to Existing Societies: What Will They See?

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-2-15-18

International Life after the Pandemic

Maxim V. Bratersky

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-2-19-25

The Coronavirus: Biopolitics and the Rise of ‘Anthropocene Authoritarianism’

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-2-26-32

The Pandemic: First Social Aftereffects and Prospects

Alexander F. Filippov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-2-33-40

Lasting Effects of COVID-19 on States and Societies

J.Scott Carpenter

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-2-41-42

Coronavirus and the Future of a Welfare State

Oksana V. Sinyavskaya

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-2-43-47

An Invisible Global Revolution

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-2-48-53

The World Order in the Post-Coronavirus Era

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-2-54-59

Learning from the Covid-19 Epidemic

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-2-60-61

Europe Must Rise to the Challenge

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-2-62-64

TRANSFORMATIONS

Imperialism and the Rise of Populism

Rein Müllerson

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-2-66-89

Nation, Empire-State and Nation-State: Beyond Usual Misinterpretations

Alexei I. Miller

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-2-90-107

The Empire and the Nation in the 20th Century

Aleksandr A. Vershinin

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-2-108-131

Neo-Modernity: A New Framework for Political Reality

Vasily A. Kuznetsov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-2-132-154

SECURITY REVISITED

The 1945 Turkish-Soviet Crisis

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-2-156-187

China’s Concept of Military Security

Alexey S. Stepanov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-2-188-216

REVIEW

Avenues for a Way-Out from Russia-EU Stalemate

Victor Bulmer-Thomas

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-2-218-220

Articles

The Doors Exist

The epidemic has rationalized what many thought was a reckless deviation from a reasonable order. The rise of nationalism, the rejection of dogmatic universalism, the creeping fragmentation of the world economy, calls for abandoning the liberal economic model so that the state could play a bigger role (in one form or another), intensifying all-round competition between major countries, primarily the United States and China...

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

International Institutions and the Challenge of the “First Pandemic War”

There are some who claim that globalization existed already in the Bronze Age. This is hard to deny. Yet in the new age, as the balance of power became global, international politics and the possibility to regulate the behavior of states also acquired global character.

Timofei V. Bordachev

The Coronavirus Holds Up a Mirror to Existing Societies: What Will They See?

The Coronavirus will make our societies gloomy. The economic crisis may drive them mad. The pandemic may in some ways help create a psychological and cultural basis for extremism by extinguishing the naïve liberal optimism about continual human improvement that has characterized the West for generations, and in a different form is also held by the Chinese Communist state. That is fine if our societies become more serious.

International Life after the Pandemic

But one thing is clear—we are entering an era of greater disunity, while unifying bonds between nations remain quite weak. Last time the world had a similar situation was during the interwar period. We will try to get out of this mess with minimal losses, but remember at the same time that not so long ago a similar situation ended in a world war.

Maxim V. Bratersky

The Coronavirus: Biopolitics and the Rise of ‘Anthropocene Authoritarianism’

If the lesson of the global response to the Coronavirus is that humanity itself is the problem, then Anthropocene Authoritarianism looks set to pose a larger long-term challenge to our ways of life than the virus itself.

The Pandemic: First Social Aftereffects and Prospects

The pandemic has ruined one of the main factors that has long cemented modern society: the unity of wealth, health, comfort, enlightenment, and security.

Alexander F. Filippov

Lasting Effects of COVID-19 on States and Societies

The COVID-19 pandemic will permanently change our societies predominantly by accelerating changes that were already underway. This will happen in ways large and small, and many will be positive, but not all.

J.Scott Carpenter

Coronavirus and the Future of a Welfare State

A society that allows glaring inequality is likely to pay a higher price for getting out of the crisis caused by the pandemic. This means more deaths, greater impoverishment risks for a part of the population, and most likely a deeper crisis. So, addressing the problem of excessive income inequality is a prerogative for more than just social policy.

Oksana V. Sinyavskaya

An Invisible Global Revolution

Today, as the world is feverishly looking for means to cope with the economic and social havoc caused by the coronavirus crisis, potentially more important, but barely noticed, processes have started around the globe. The germs for these processes were seeded when the powers fought valiantly the Great Recession 2008; that is, the germination took almost twelve years.

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.

Learning from the Covid-19 Epidemic

The Covid-19 epidemic is a “stress test” for political systems all around the world. It is a brutal reality check from Mother Nature, pushing back against “fake news,” internet trolls, political dogmas, and the disparagement of experts.

Europe Must Rise to the Challenge

As the coronavirus vindicates, exacerbates and accelerates many of the global trends that we have seen in slow-motion in recent years, Europe must rise to the challenge if it is truly determined to protect its citizens and the values of a rules-based multilateral system.

Imperialism and the Rise of Populism

Instead of pouring oil on the fire of the relentless struggle between self-declared progressivists and populists and looking for dragons (or bears) to slay abroad, Western politicians and mainstream media should resort to the art of compromise in dealing with their political opponents at home and accept that in international relations balance of power is even more important than separation of powers in domestic politics.

Rein Müllerson

Nation, Empire-State and Nation-State: Beyond Usual Misinterpretations

The task is to create a design of the future in which its authors will be able to take an unbiased look at the legacy of empires, free from the inherited intellectual restrictions and hackneyed stereotypes.

Alexei I. Miller

The Empire and the Nation in the 20th Century

World War I is rightly called the suicide of Europe. It would be even more appropriate to consider it the suicide of empires. WWI graphically demonstrated that the major threat to any empire was not domestic nationalism, but another empire.

Aleksandr A. Vershinin

Neo-Modernity: A New Framework for Political Reality

Features of neo-modernity is the problematization of values and meanings—in this case, of social and political existence—and the return of ideology.

Vasily A. Kuznetsov

The 1945 Turkish-Soviet Crisis

That these were “proposals” and not “demands” was made explicit not only in the Molotov-Sarper talks, but by Stalin and other top-ranking Soviet officials at international conferences.

China’s Concept of Military Security

Further growth of China’s military power will largely depend on the economic successes, on how the world situation develops and on the way world powers react to China’s further development and its actions on the international scene.

Alexey S. Stepanov

Avenues for a Way-Out from Russia-EU Stalemate

This book, edited by Evgeny Pashentsev, brings together a series of chapters written by Rus-sian and non-Russian scholars to analyze the current state of relations between Russia and the European Union. The chapters were written, and the book published, at a time of excep-tional stress in the relationship and the leitmotif of the book is the need and opportunity to explore ways in which this tragic situation might be changed.

Victor Bulmer-Thomas