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No. 3

2021 July/September

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Farewell to Hegemony

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-3-5-8

MULTIPOLARITY IN EFFECT

The Taliban Enigma and the Polycentric World

Ivan A. Safranchuk, Vera M. Zhornist

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-3-10-24

Iran’s Eastern Policy: Potential and Challenges

Mehdi Sanaei, Jahangir Karami

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-3-25-49

Libya, the United States and Russia in the Never-Ending Game of Checkers

Andrey V. Zeltyn, Larisa A. Zeltyn, Valery A. Matrosov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-3-50-63

BRICS Strategic Communication: The Present and the Future

Darya Yu. Bazarkina, Evgeny N. Pashentsev

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-3-64-93

Opportunities for Further China-Russia Rapprochement

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-3-94-100

WAR AND PEACE

On a Third Cold War

Sergei A. Karaganov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-3-102-115

A Hybrid Matryoshka and a Monastery

Konstantin V. Bogdanov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-3-116-136

So, Were Shots Fired?

Andrey V. Gubin

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-3-137-142

RUSSIAN SECURITY DOCTRINE REVISITED

The Bear’s New Strategy

Timofei V. Bordachev

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-3-144-149

National Fencing Doctrine

Ilya S. Fabrichnikov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-3-150-155

Russia and the West: Are Values the Problem?

Ivan N. Timofeev

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-3-156-163

National Securitization Strategy?

Alexander V. Solovyov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-3-164-172

RETURN OF THE GRAND NARRATIVE

Life, Death, and the State

Svyatoslav I. Kaspe

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-3-174-204

The Anthropocene Consensus

Yevgeny I. Uchaev

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-3-206-227

On Law, Rights and Rules

Sergei V. Lavrov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-3-228-240

Articles

Farewell to Hegemony

The American global hegemony of the 1991-2021 edition was so impressive and probably unprecedented in scale that a mild and gradual departure from it was not possible.

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

The Taliban Enigma and the Polycentric World

In reality, Russia has supported (although softer diplomatic language is used) the force in Afghanistan which is the most independent one in the local context. This is a rather consistent step towards building a polycentric and diverse world.

Ivan A. Safranchuk, Vera M. Zhornist

Iran’s Eastern Policy: Potential and Challenges

The security game between the West and Iran is evolving towards complexity, pressure and restrictions, making Iran’s Eastern strategy the only viable option in the future.

Mehdi Sanaei, Jahangir Karami

Libya, the United States and Russia in the Never-Ending Game of Checkers

Either the Russian political leadership finally lost interest in Libya, leaving the settlement process in the hands of non-state actors, or Moscow’s ultimate goal took a new form, as we will show below.

Andrey V. Zeltyn, Larisa A. Zeltyn, Valery A. Matrosov

BRICS Strategic Communication: The Present and the Future

Without strategic “deeds” there is nothing but a set of long-term communication goals related to key issues. Unless backed up by real actions, such communication turns into vague propaganda, albeit strategic.

Darya Yu. Bazarkina, Evgeny N. Pashentsev

Opportunities for Further China-Russia Rapprochement

As the two countries move from the more constrained, “conservative” mutual role expectation of “do-no-harm-to-each-other” principle, contained in the “Three Noes” to a more proactive “do-something-together” approach, “practice what you preach” shall become their guiding principle in the future to further substantiate the greater bilateral agenda between China and Russia.

On a Third Cold War

The political systems of most countries that have decided to challenge us and China are not adapted to a long and fierce confrontation. If we were opposed by the West ruled by more authoritarian and effective governments, the situation could be much more complicated.

Sergei A. Karaganov

A Hybrid Matryoshka and a Monastery

All this brings us to one of the potentially important infrastructural functions of arms control during the transitional period: it can be called the “monastery principle.”

Konstantin V. Bogdanov

So, Were Shots Fired?

A repeat of the Cold War is often talked about in the West; but it is essential to remember that during that era, only the nerves of steel displayed by the military and the awareness of their global responsibility demonstrated by world leaders saved the planet from a nuclear catastrophe.

Andrey V. Gubin

The Bear’s New Strategy

Russia does not need to expand or run a race with other powers. On the contrary, it closely monitors their actions with a view to ensuring the security of its own internal and external borders. These borders include particularly “the taiga of the Russian bear” President Putin has once mentioned in one of his speeches.

Timofei V. Bordachev

National Fencing Doctrine

The era of “Grand Alliances” seems to have come to an end. The great powers (Russia certainly being one of them) are revisiting their commitments to client states and “junior partners” in real-time mode, focusing on internal processes and obligations to their citi-zens.

Ilya S. Fabrichnikov

Russia and the West: Are Values the Problem?

Whether we like it or not, our ties with the West are not going anywhere. Political contradictions and a military threat will force us, at least, to take into account the Western experience of organizing the army, industry, and science.

Ivan N. Timofeev

National Securitization Strategy?

The total number of threats mentioned in the Strategy and “factors that negatively affect security” is approaching one hundred. The mere listing of them shows both the gravity of security challenges and the fact that the state is its only guarantor.

Alexander V. Solovyov

Life, Death, and the State

The state has restored its power over the physical and symbolic space, and through it over the bodies and souls of the people inhabiting this space. The pretty much forgotten right of the state to such power remained in its arsenal all along. Like a regalia, a palladium, and a fetish.

Svyatoslav I. Kaspe

The Anthropocene Consensus

In a postmodern world, where all old values are in question and relativized, it is the realization of the imperative of human survival as an Absolute that can become the starting point in building a new global consensus.

Yevgeny I. Uchaev

On Law, Rights and Rules

By imposing the concept of a rules-based order, the West seeks to shift the discussion on key issues to the platforms of its liking, where no dissident voices are allowed.

Sergei V. Lavrov