Russia in Global Affairs

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No. 4

2020 October/December

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Fyodor A. Lukyanov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-4-5-8

Post-Soviet Space: Interests and Practices

Neighborhood with Russia: Implications for Regional Differentiation of Public Opinion in Belarus

Igor Yu. Okunev, Marianna N. Shestakova, Emma S. Bibina

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-4-10-36

Kazakhstan and the Eurasian Economic Union

Roman A. Yuneman

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-4-37-55

Turkey’s Activity in the Caucasus

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-4-56-60

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Victimhood Olympics

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-4-62-99

Accusing Russia of Fascism

Marlene Laruelle

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-4-100-123

Russia-Germany: Perceptions and Motives

Ivan N. Timofeev

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-4-124-130

Global Governance: New Actors

China in Global Governance: Ideology, Theory, and Instrumentation

Evgeny N. Grachikov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-4-132-153

Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence

Darya Yu. Bazarkina, Evgeny N. Pashentsev

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-4-154-177

Constructing the Arcto-Pacific

Alexey V. Kupriyanov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-4-178-191

Non-State Actors in the Middle East: Towards a New Typology

Vitaly V. Naumkin, Vasily A. Kuznetsov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-4-192-214

Articles

This year’s last issue of our journal writing about world politics looks like the summing up of what has just begun, with no one knowing when or how it will all end, but everyone wanting to see the end of the chapter.

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

Neighborhood with Russia: Implications for Regional Differentiation of Public Opinion in Belarus

There were no consistent lines of regional differentiation in the public opinion in Belarus, with the exception of differences in residents’ perception of the center (the capital) and peripheral regions.

Igor Yu. Okunev, Marianna N. Shestakova, Emma S. Bibina

Kazakhstan and the Eurasian Economic Union

This article examines the evolution of Kazakhstan’s foreign policy with regard to Eurasian integration during the creation and development of the main institutions of integration. The purpose of the study is to describe the evolution starting from the creation of the Customs Union in 2009 to the present day, and to establish the reason for its change.

Roman A. Yuneman

Turkey’s Activity in the Caucasus

Turkey’s foreign policy activity is probably designed to create an additional platform for foreign policy bargaining with Moscow on issues of interest to Ankara, and not by any means only in the South Caucasus. Along with bilateral interaction with Azerbaijan and with the countries of Central Asia, political, economic and humanitarian cooperation within the framework of the “Turkic Council” is being strengthened.

Victimhood Olympics

The willingness to see behind everything a conspiracy of dark forces and the belief that everything happens for a reason, well-known to us from our own history, have now spectacularly become commonplace. So, since the topic triggered such a powerful response, we decided to take it further by asking members of the academic community in different countries how they assess the current state of affairs in “memory politics.” They came up with a very broad range of opinions, which we gladly share with our readers.

Accusing Russia of Fascism

Memory wars around the interpretation of the Second World War/Great Patriotic War continue to rage between Central and Eastern European countries and Russia, with European institutions being hostage to these conflictual narratives.

Marlene Laruelle

Russia-Germany: Perceptions and Motives

The underlying idea of the article is that the Navalny incident is just one of the episodes in the long story of Germany’s long-term disillusionment with Russia. It began after the 2011 Duma elections and swiftly followed Vladimir Putin’s return as president in 2012.

Ivan N. Timofeev

China in Global Governance: Ideology, Theory, and Instrumentation

In China, global governance is understood as a new type of principles, mechanisms, methods, and activities focused on the values professed by holism and on the common interests of humankind, whereby various actors, using equal dialogue, negotiations and cooperation for managing the public affairs of humankind, jointly respond to global changes and global problems.

Evgeny N. Grachikov

Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence

The psychological security (PS) of individual BRICS countries and the association as a whole is under increasing pressure from both internal and external negative factors. Global economic crises, a dangerous escalation of tension in interstate relations, attempts to impose sanctions, and unlawful extraterritorial application of national law are accompanied by major manifestations of psychological warfare.

Darya Yu. Bazarkina, Evgeny N. Pashentsev

Constructing the Arcto-Pacific

In his work entitled “Critical Geopolitics: The Politics of Writing Global Space” Gerard Toal wrote: “Geography is about power. Although often assumed to be innocent, the geography of the world is not a product of nature but a product of histories of struggle between competing authorities over the power to organize, occupy, and administer space.”

Alexey V. Kupriyanov

Non-State Actors in the Middle East: Towards a New Typology

In the final analysis, the “crumbling” of the world order is related primarily to the profound re-balancing of the global system and the growing influence of new centers of power on global political processes, specifically BRICS member-states, Middle East actors and, to a certain extent, Southeast Asian countries.

Vitaly V. Naumkin, Vasily A. Kuznetsov