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No. 4

2021 October/December

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Time Machine: Going Back Thirty Years

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-4-5-8

WHO WON THE COLD WAR?

Perestroika and New Thinking: A Retrospective

Mikhail S. Gorbachev

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-4-10-21

Russia in the Post-Cold War International Order

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-4-22-35

Russia’s Dissociation from the Paris Charter-Based Order: Implications and Pitfalls

Mikhail A. Polianskii

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-4-36-58

No End to History

Terry Nardin, Alexander F. Filippov, Pål Kolstø, Thomas Gomart, Asle Toje, Zhang Shuhua, Thomas E. Graham

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-4-60-76

NEW BATTLEFIELDS

The U.S.-China Technological War

Ivan V. Danilin

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-4-78-96

International Cooperation in Space Activities amid Great Power Competition

Ludmila V. Pankova, Olga V. Gusarova, Dmitry V. Stefanovich

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-4-97-117

Intelligence, Technology, and Ethics

Anastasia B. Likhacheva

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-4-118-121

The Dialectics of Confrontation

Yevgeny G. Vodolazkin, Ivan Krastev, Kishore Mahbubani, Ilter Turan, Chas W. Freeman, Jr., Wu Enyuan, Robert Legvold

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-4-122-136

HISTORY: SECOND LOOK

Alliance-Building in Post-War Europe: Lessons for Russia

Nikita I. Eriashev, Anna V. Makarycheva

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-4-138-162

North Korean Narrative on the Second World War: Why the Change?

Fyodor K. Tertitskiy

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-4-164-183

Every Collapse Has Its Inner Logic

Artemy V. Magun, Timothy Garton Ash, Andrei A. Teslya, Thomas Bagger, Philip Zelikow, Michael Mann, Hanns W. Maull

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-4-184-196

COSTS OF LIBERALISM

Prosecution for Violations of International Humanitarian Law: Russia’s Position

Larisa V. Deriglazova, Olga Yu. Smolenchuk

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-4-198-225

Restraining the Excesses of Liberalism

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-4-226-230

Articles

Time Machine: Going Back Thirty Years

Thirty years after the beginning of the new era, Moscow seems to have come to the conclusion that maintaining the previous system of omissions and signals becomes unproductive and only deepens the crisis.

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

Perestroika and New Thinking: A Retrospective

Perestroika inherited a difficult situation in terms of interethnic and federal relations. I have to admit that when we started perestroika, my colleagues and I did not see the full extent of that problem.

Mikhail S. Gorbachev

Russia in the Post-Cold War International Order

The prospect for Russia is to be progressively and rapidly overshadowed by its partner/ally. As China gets relatively stronger, and the West gets relatively weaker, how does Russia fit into this equation?

Russia’s Dissociation from the Paris Charter-Based Order: Implications and Pitfalls

Moscow’s experience with multilateral European security institutions in the first twenty years after the end of the Cold War led it to believe that both its material and ideational interests were better served outside of these structures.

Mikhail A. Polianskii

No End to History

The desire to replay the Cold War is an attempt to reverse the wheel of history.

Terry Nardin, Alexander F. Filippov, Pål Kolstø, Thomas Gomart, Asle Toje, Zhang Shuhua, Thomas E. Graham

The U.S.-China Technological War

The new digital revolution and rising competition for global high-tech markets have increased their importance in the geopolitical conflict between the United States and China and, more broadly, in international relations. As a result, leadership is increasingly associated with the global redistribution of the “technological rent” and control of the digital markets as factors of [technological] sovereignty and structural power.

Ivan V. Danilin

International Cooperation in Space Activities amid Great Power Competition

With great-power competition, announced by the U.S. administration, underway, competition in space can develop into “confrontation” and involve new participants. In order to reduce conflict potential, it is necessary to lay the foundations for expanding and strengthening international cooperation.

Ludmila V. Pankova, Olga V. Gusarova, Dmitry V. Stefanovich

Intelligence, Technology, and Ethics

The Internet did not create a “wow” effect for world politics as such (for political technologies, yes), although it did for the world of advertising, leisure, and education, and certainly for convenience of life. It has even increased vanity. But it has not done as much for world politics.

Anastasia B. Likhacheva

The Dialectics of Confrontation

Thirty years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, we have moved towards a world in which all countries are becoming protective of their economies and trying to pass the burden of declining outputs and unemployment onto others.

Yevgeny G. Vodolazkin, Ivan Krastev, Kishore Mahbubani, Ilter Turan, Chas W. Freeman, Jr., Wu Enyuan, Robert Legvold

Alliance-Building in Post-War Europe: Lessons for Russia

For Russia, alliances can serve as an effective tool of ensuring national security. Moreover, alliances along the perimeter of the Russian border serve as a guarantee against further expansion of hostile blocs, since keeping an ally in its orbit by definition prevents it from defecting to the opposing camp.

Nikita I. Eriashev, Anna V. Makarycheva

North Korean Narrative on the Second World War: Why the Change?

The North Korean narrative on the Second World War originated from the Soviet narrative on the immediate post-War period, which was implanted into the DPRK by Soviet overseers in the late 1940s. In later years it was altered by the North Korean authorities to fit the changes in the state ideology.

Fyodor K. Tertitskiy

Every Collapse Has Its Inner Logic

Perestroika and the subsequent 1990s were accompanied by such massive enthusiasm and a sense of liberation that it would be unfair to discard them as illusions from the point of view of some “objective” progress.

Artemy V. Magun, Timothy Garton Ash, Andrei A. Teslya, Thomas Bagger, Philip Zelikow, Michael Mann, Hanns W. Maull

Prosecution for Violations of International Humanitarian Law: Russia’s Position

Russia’s participation in the development of international criminal justice is possible and necessary at several levels: official, academic, and professional law enforcement. It is important that law stop being “dormant” and become effective.

Larisa V. Deriglazova, Olga Yu. Smolenchuk

Restraining the Excesses of Liberalism

Liberalism fails when it functions too well as the atomized individual is liberated from all authority and group influence, which causes narcissism, nihilism and the breakdown of the social capital required for the functioning of civic society.