Russia in Global Affairs

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No. 1

2025 January/March

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Fyodor A. Lukyanov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-1-5-8

Russia: Perceptions of Uniqueness

The Sources of Russia’s Great-Power Status

Dmitry V. Yefremenko

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-1-10-30

Russian Federalism and the Rehabilitation of the Empire

Alexei I. Miller

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-1-31-42

Emmanuel Todd: I’ve Always Been Amazed by Russia’s Role in World Processes

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-1-43-50

A Narrow Dichotomy: The Future Beyond Tradition and Modernity

Dmitry A. Davydov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-1-51-68

International Order: How It Works

The Behavior of Particularistic and Universalistic States

Dylan Payne Royce

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-1-70-99

The World Majority: Growing Significance but Inadequate Agency

Ivan A. Safranchuk

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-1-100-103

The Sahel Belt: In Search of a ‘Positive Peace’ Formula

Denis A. Degterev

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-1-104-122

Diplomacy: the Limits of the Possible

The UN Must Again Become a Center for Harmonizing the Actions of Nations

Sergei V. Lavrov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-1-124-135

Sailing into Unchartered Waters in Times of a Great Transition

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-1-136-143

To Continue Using Other Means

Nikolai Yu. Silaev

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-1-144-161

Sovereignty to the Extent Possible

Andrey G. Baklanov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-1-162-174

Technology: New Frontiers

Disruptive Technologies as a Source of Strategic Destabilization

Dmitry V. Stefanovich

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-1-176-187

From War to Commerce and Back

Ludmila V. Pankova, Olga V. Gusarova

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-1-188-201

The Sino-American Battle for the Moon

Alexander S. Ermakov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-1-202-220

Articles

2025 promises to be a watershed: changes around the world are so numerous that quantity will inevitably soon become quality. There are no good options, but there are different ones.

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

The Sources of Russia’s Great-Power Status

The stereotypical perception of Russians as constantly craving great-power status did not arise out of thin air. It deserves consideration in its historical, cultural, and civilizational context.

Dmitry V. Yefremenko

Russian Federalism and the Rehabilitation of the Empire

The concept of empire, without aggressively negative or nostalgically positive emotional connotations, can be useful for analyzing Russia’s national and regional policies in the 21st century.

Alexei I. Miller

Emmanuel Todd: I’ve Always Been Amazed by Russia’s Role in World Processes

Emmanuel Todd is a French historian and social anthropologist known for unorthodox views, and the author of many sensational books. His most recent, The Defeat of the West (La Défaite de l'Occident) , hit bookshelves last year. At the request of our journal, Natalia Rutkevich asked Emmanuel Todd a few questions.

A Narrow Dichotomy: The Future Beyond Tradition and Modernity

If modernity eventually negates itself through the postmodern pursuit of maximal individual autonomy, does tradition remain as the only unquestionable source of morality? No, that would be an exaggeration.

Dmitry A. Davydov

The Behavior of Particularistic and Universalistic States

Universalism virtually guarantees useless, exhausting, and counterproductive conflict with many other states, and the ultimate failure of a state’s foreign policy. Particularism, as the absence of universalism, provides the possibility that a state will thrive or at least muddle through on the international stage.

Dylan Payne Royce

The World Majority: Growing Significance but Inadequate Agency

The World Majority is better viewed as part of the international environment rather than a fully-fledged agent. The Majority can form and express opinions on others’ actions, but it does not actually support the actions of anyone. At this point, it is more like a global ‘muffler.’

Ivan A. Safranchuk

The Sahel Belt: In Search of a ‘Positive Peace’ Formula

The terms ‘Sahelian Anomaly’ and ‘Red Belt’ appear increasingly often in newspaper headlines and academic studies regarding the Sahel. Stabilization and lasting, or positive peace are needed here more than ever.

Denis A. Degterev

The UN Must Again Become a Center for Harmonizing the Actions of Nations

It is not too late to give the UN a new lease on life. But this should not be done through delusional summits and declarations but through the restoration of trust based on the Charter principle of the sovereign equality of all states. Unfortunately, this is not happening.

Sergei V. Lavrov

Sailing into Unchartered Waters in Times of a Great Transition

Nothing happens overnight. The Great Transition might take years and even decades. The year 2024 surely marked the beginning of a new period of change in modern history.

To Continue Using Other Means

Ukraine is the West’s largest geopolitical asset whose use in war against Russia does not automatically lead to a direct armed (and potentially nuclear) conflict between Russia and NATO. There is no other such asset.

Nikolai Yu. Silaev

Sovereignty to the Extent Possible

A future Palestinian state will have certain peculiarities to account for Israel’s concerns, whether real or intentionally inflated.

Andrey G. Baklanov

Disruptive Technologies as a Source of Strategic Destabilization

New and disruptive technologies have played a key role in international security for many decades. The key distinction today is the speed with which new technologies are being developed and introduced. Disruptive technologies could lead to a nuclear apocalypse but could also help avoid it.

Dmitry V. Stefanovich

From War to Commerce and Back

Both the opportunities and dangers arising from growing space activities require collective efforts to improve existing, and draft new, international treaties on the exploration and use of space, and develop measures to prevent its militarization.

Ludmila V. Pankova, Olga V. Gusarova

The Sino-American Battle for the Moon

The Second Moon Race features diminished funding compared to the 1960s, resulting in slower progress and delays. However, as the geopolitical confrontation between Washington and Beijing intensifies, politicians are keen to win the race, encouraged by the growing interest of private business and the general public in space exploration, and inspired by NewSpace’s successes.

Alexander S. Ermakov