Russia in Global Affairs

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No. 1

2022 January/March

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Old Thinking for Our Country and the World

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-1-5-10

Confrontation: Causes and Consequences

The Pendulum of History: Thirty Years after the Soviet Union

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-1-12-28

What Went Wrong?

Rein Müllerson

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-1-30-49

From Constructive Destruction to Gathering

Sergei A. Karaganov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-1-50-67

Might Makes No Right: Realism and International Relations Theory

Andrei P. Tsygankov, Pavel A. Tsygankov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-1-68-76

Stabilization: Ends and Means

Cold War as a Special Type of Conflict: A Strategic Sketch

Alexey V. Kupriyanov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-1-78-92

What Factors Affect Strategic Stability?

Alexander G. Savelyev, Olga M. Alexandria

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-1-93-111

Counter-Threat Regime and Strategic Frivolity

Timofei V. Bordachev

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-1-112-116

Transformation: Gains and Pains

Translateralism in the Changing Global Order

Kazushige Kobayashi

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-1-118-142

Global Russians: In Search of Lost Time

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-1-143-165

Where Is Poland Heading?

Alexander A. Nosovich

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-1-166-184

Understanding Islamic Radicalization

Irina V. Starodubrovskaya

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-1-185-208

Review

One Grand Disillusion

Andrei N. Lankov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-1-210-216

A Future for Europe

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2022-20-1-217-220

Articles

Old Thinking for Our Country and the World

February 2022 marked the end of a large-scale historical experiment aimed to test the hypothesis that Russia may be included in the international order created by the leading Western powers without its participation but providing certain room for its development in accordance with the rules established by the leaders of this order. The result is negative.

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

The Pendulum of History: Thirty Years after the Soviet Union

The collapse of any global empire always had a profound and lasting impact on the entire world history, and the disintegration of the Soviet Union was also the case. The Soviet Union was more than just a country; it was an “empire” that united countries covering the Eurasian continent, a military alliance and a large economic association, as well as a worldwide ideology and a peculiar social system.

What Went Wrong?

Although Russia is responsible for its actions, there are those, both in Ukraine and particularly in the West, who have been working hard for years to transform Ukraine into a bridgehead, even a launching pad against Russia, not caring at all what it may ultimately mean not only for Russia but also for Ukraine.

Rein Müllerson

From Constructive Destruction to Gathering

In 2021, Russia’s foreign policy seems to have entered a new stage. Let us call it the “constructive destruction” of the previous model of relations with the West.

Sergei A. Karaganov

Might Makes No Right: Realism and International Relations Theory

The world is in transition from the Western type of global order and international system to a very different one. Nations and states will have to respond to new challenges and to handle a set of tasks crucial for their survival and further development.

Andrei P. Tsygankov, Pavel A. Tsygankov

Cold War as a Special Type of Conflict: A Strategic Sketch

A Cold War can be compared with a multi-level chess game played simultaneously on several boards: economy, technology, politics, security, and ideology. Moves on one board cast a strategic shadow on the other boards, and a loss on one board leads to a loss of the entire game.

Alexey V. Kupriyanov

What Factors Affect Strategic Stability?

This survey seeks to identify the factors that affect strategic stability at present and will affect it in the foreseeable future, as well as ways to strengthen security and stability in any of the above interpretations.

Alexander G. Savelyev, Olga M. Alexandria

Counter-Threat Regime and Strategic Frivolity

Strategic frivolity, that is, the ability to create risky situations for the sake of solving particular issues, is a characteristic sign of the confidence of states that a major conflict between them is either unrealistic or can be relatively easily settled by diplomatic methods. However, history shows that diplomacy and even direct communication at the highest level may not always work.

Timofei V. Bordachev

Translateralism in the Changing Global Order

Although multilateralism forms the basis of global cooperation, it still raises the divisive impression of each actor being rigidly situated on a fixed side. In contrast, translateralism is a foreign policy approach explicitly aimed at transcending a perilous bloc mentality by instituting inclusive, flexible, and open-ended partnerships that cut across existing international cleavages.

Kazushige Kobayashi

Global Russians: In Search of Lost Time

This article offers an explanation of how the Russian strategy was built in relation to compatriots abroad and the Russian world, and how the phenomenon of Global Russians is understood in the Russian political and academic discourse.

Where Is Poland Heading?

As long as Poland acts as an internal critic of fundamental social and political processes in the West, it cannot be considered its plenipotentiary representative in the East.

Alexander A. Nosovich

Understanding Islamic Radicalization

The problem of radicalization motivated by fundamentalist interpretations of Islam has been faced by countries around the world for several decades. And there are no reasons to say it may be resolved in the near future.

Irina V. Starodubrovskaya

One Grand Disillusion

In the broadest terms, the situation in the international relations theory can be described as a clash between two main schools—realist and liberal. The realists’ leading voices are John Mearsheimer and Kenneth Waltz, while the liberals’ mastermind is John Ikenberry. Richard Hanania’s new book challenges both camps by offering a new vision of how U.S. foreign policy is shaped.

Andrei N. Lankov

A Future for Europe

Europe’s reliance on the U.S. is no longer sustainable. Glenn Diesen introduces an alternative. If the Russian-Chinese partnership gains sufficient geoeconomic power, it can integrate Europe with Asia into a Eurasian supercontinent. In this scenario the EU can diversify its partners and avoid excessive dependence on one player or region.