Russia in Global Affairs

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No. 4

2023 October/December

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Issue Information

Not Against, but Beyond the West

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-4-5-8

Fog of War

Nuclear Deterrence, Strategic Stability, Missile Defense

Alexander G. Savelyev

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-4-10-23

Guns Before Butter — A New Reality?

Dmitry V. Stefanovich, Alexander S. Ermakov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-4-24-46

Foreign Companies’ Behavior in the Russian Market under Sanctions: Speculation and Reality

Ekaterina Y. Arapova, Svetlana I. Balakhonova

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-4-47-64

Facets of Identity

Irreplaceable Russia: Fortresses and Bridges of the “Russian Idea”

Andrei P. Tsygankov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-4-66-76

EU Identity as a Factor of Resilience in the Face of Russia’s Special Operation in Ukraine

Elena V. Khakhalkina, Anastasia M. Pogorelskaya

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-4-77-94

Bonds and Divides

Global Encirclement and Prospects of Socialism in the 21st Century

Annamária Artner

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-4-96-122

In Scope and Depth

Kirill V. Babaev, Sergei V. Lavrov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-4-124-137

Central Asia in Change amid the New Great Game

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-4-138-148

Russia’s Relations with the Korean Peninsula States in Perspective

Konstantin V. Asmolov, Liudmila V. Zakharova

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-4-149-174

Modernization: Controversy

“Time Is Out of Joint”: EU and Russia in Quest of Themselves in Time

Larisa V. Deriglazova

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-4-176-198

On a Place in Time

Andrei A. Teslya

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2023-21-4-199-209

Articles

Not Against, but Beyond the West

The confrontation between Russia and the West is intensifying but not changing in quality. Major changes have occurred in the part of the world that is not involved in the conflict but affected by it. The World Majority becomes increasingly convinced that the influence of those who have long dictated the rules in the international arena is declining.

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

Nuclear Deterrence, Strategic Stability, Missile Defense

The nuclear deterrence effect is not a direct continuation of combat capabilities, or of the quantitative and qualitative structure of the opposing forces. This effect is stronger and much more complex, and is more psychological than military-technical in nature.

Alexander G. Savelyev

Guns Before Butter — A New Reality?

After the end of the “previous” Cold War, the armed forces in different countries considered scenarios of large ground operations during armed conflicts with an equal or superior enemy, but such plans largely remained a theory. Hostilities in Ukraine have put these theories to the ruthless test.

Dmitry V. Stefanovich, Alexander S. Ermakov

Foreign Companies’ Behavior in the Russian Market under Sanctions: Speculation and Reality

Companies with a higher share of the Russian market in their revenue structure are less willing to leave the Russian market. Cooperation with state-owned (or state-affiliated) companies from countries that have not joined the sanctions and show a higher level of political loyalty to Russia’s foreign policy has the best prospects.

Ekaterina Y. Arapova, Svetlana I. Balakhonova

Irreplaceable Russia: Fortresses and Bridges of the “Russian Idea”

Due to their geographical location between Europe and Asia, the tolerance of Eastern Christian culture, and broad political and economic ties, Russian people are destined to play an active role in maintaining global peace. The outside world will still need Russia in the foreseeable future in order to update the ideas of dialogue and global interaction.

Andrei P. Tsygankov

EU Identity as a Factor of Resilience in the Face of Russia’s Special Operation in Ukraine

Contrasting EU values and actions to a “significant Other” (Russia) became the most affordable and logical way of strengthening the EU’s identity in the SMO context and thus contribute to the EU’s resilience.

Elena V. Khakhalkina, Anastasia M. Pogorelskaya

Global Encirclement and Prospects of Socialism in the 21st Century

A new, promising wave of encirclement is unfolding. This time it is led by China and Russia and their growing connections with the Global South. The encirclement of the Global North, forcing imperialism back to build a multipolar world, becomes a tangible possibility.

Annamária Artner

In Scope and Depth

The decisions made at the 15th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg are likely to lead to the group’s revolutionary transformation. It is yet to be seen how effective and viable the new composition will be. However, it is already evident that doubling the number of participants will complicate consensus decision-making.

Kirill V. Babaev, Sergei V. Lavrov

Central Asia in Change amid the New Great Game

The Central Asian countries clearly intend to develop relations with all major powers other than Russia with which they have longstanding ties.

Russia’s Relations with the Korean Peninsula States in Perspective

The current “global turbulence” can be described as a changing world order in which the old footholds of the global security architecture are crumbling while new ones have not yet formed. The latest developments make use wonder what Russia’s relations with the two Korean states will be like in the new era.

Konstantin V. Asmolov, Liudmila V. Zakharova

“Time Is Out of Joint”: EU and Russia in Quest of Themselves in Time

The disruption of relations between Russia and the European Union reflects their different understanding of the essence of modernization. The disagreements of the early 2000s led to an existential crisis between the former strategic partners resulting from a look back on their past and realizing its lessons for the present and the future.

Larisa V. Deriglazova

On a Place in Time

In fact, memory politics itself is presented, first and foremost, with regard to modernization, its successes and/or failures, its one-sidedness or, on the contrary, its ability to transform society, synchronize it, and/or create “islands of modernity” in the middle of the space that remains in a different time.

Andrei A. Teslya