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No. 4

2025 October/December

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From Euphoria to Neurosis

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-4-5-12

EAST AND WEST, NORTH AND SOUTH

Europe: A Bitter Parting

Sergei A. Karaganov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-4-14-29

The Temptation of Civilizationism: Is It Possible to Resist the West without Bias and Reductive Thinking?

Dmitry A. Davydov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-4-30-48

Russia’s Narrative of Sovereignty: What Makes It So Enticing for the Global South?

Jens Stilhoff Sörensen

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-4-49-66

Deconstruction of the South, Or Goodbye, Compass!

Kirill O. Telin

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-4-67-72

NEW TIMES, NEW CHALLENGE

A Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the XXI Century

Maxim V. Ryzhenkov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-3-74-90

Si Vis Pacem: How to Pay for Global Security

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-4-91-103

Will It Get Worse? Expert Perception of Global Transformation

Ivan A. Safranchuk, Alexander D. Nesmashnyi, Evgenia S. Komarova

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-4-104-112

The Baltics Is Not the Balkans, But Apprehension Is Growing

Konstantin K. Khudoley

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-4-113-116

GREAT AND SMALL, GLOBAL AND REGIONAL

Russia and China in the Great Strategic Triangle

Mikhail S. Luchina

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-4-118-133

The Tragedy of Regional Powers in the Middle East

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-4-134-142

BRICS as a Brand and Its African Dimension

Mayya V. Nikolskaya, Alina A. Matveeva

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-3-143-154

PAST POLITICS, PRESENT HISTORY

More than the Great Game: The Origins of Anglo-Russian Imperial Rivalry in Eurasia

Vladimir V. Degoev

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-4-156-173

Ukraine: History Politics in Regional Identity-Building

Alexei I. Miller

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-4-174-190

Did Confucius Dream about the Balance of Power?

Alexander V. Solovyov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2025-23-4-192-217

Articles

From Euphoria to Neurosis

Something that started so well has now gone off the rails, and Russia is exclusively blamed. One can dismiss this as a symptom of neurosis. But history shows that neurosis in Europe, and especially in Germany, spawns disaster far beyond its borders. History is heading for another sharp turn.

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

Europe: A Bitter Parting

Siberization – shifting the country’s center of gravity to the Urals and Siberia – is not just extremely beneficial, but also unavoidable, as the western, European vector has been blocked for the foreseeable future by Western policy that provoked the war in Ukraine.

Sergei A. Karaganov

The Temptation of Civilizationism: Is It Possible to Resist the West without Bias and Reductive Thinking?

The modern progressive agenda is being reconsidered along the entire “cultural front.” And probably, in the U.S., on a more fundamental and scientific basis than in our country.

Dmitry A. Davydov

Russia’s Narrative of Sovereignty: What Makes It So Enticing for the Global South?

By combining the protection of national cultural values with a critique of (neo)colonialism, the Russian narrative invites the Global South to fight for self-determination as an expression of freedom.

Jens Stilhoff Sörensen

Deconstruction of the South, Or Goodbye, Compass!

If the G7 and G20 do not support us, the OSCE rejects us, and we are dissatisfied with the General Assembly’s voting, then we need new platforms for our ambitions. An infinite variety of World Majorities, Global Souths, Greater Eurasias, etc., will be molded and nurtured until they are convincing and useful as guarantees of our status claims.

Kirill O. Telin

A Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the XXI Century

So, Eurasia stands at present as a place of immense opportunities for its countries and peoples. The way to realize these opportunities is through comprehensive approaches that would account for Eurasia’s wholeness, uniqueness, complexity and diversity. Belarus believes that the above task can be realized by means of the Eurasian Charter for Diversity and Multipolarity in the XXI century.

Maxim V. Ryzhenkov

Si Vis Pacem: How to Pay for Global Security

The ‘Peace through Strength’ approach, accepted by Harry Truman in 1948, has now fully overshadowed its reversed twin ‘Strength through Peace’ urged by Franklin Roosevelt in 1945, paving the way for a new round of confrontation among great powers.

Will It Get Worse? Expert Perception of Global Transformation

IR experts’ perception of the current global transformation has a contradiction: they expect major change in the international system, but see little preparedness for the associated risks. But the complexity of transformation impedes calculation of the probabilities of success or failure.

Ivan A. Safranchuk, Alexander D. Nesmashnyi, Evgenia S. Komarova

The Baltics Is Not the Balkans, But Apprehension Is Growing

The situation in the Baltic region, where Russia directly confronts Western countries, remains alarming, although current events there do not arouse the same interest as did Swedish and Finnish NATO accession.

Konstantin K. Khudoley

Russia and China in the Great Strategic Triangle

The strategic relationships between the three powers largely shape the contours of the contemporary strategic landscape, which is in a ‘stable marriage’ between Russia and China versus the U.S.

Mikhail S. Luchina

The Tragedy of Regional Powers in the Middle East

The Middle East’s enduring conflict and instability are not merely the result of historical grievances or ideological differences, they are fundamentally rooted in the international system’s anarchic structure and states’ inherent drive to maximize their power and security.

BRICS as a Brand and Its African Dimension

The strategic positioning of the BRICS brand in Africa should not be achieved through imposition, but through co-ownership and co-engagement. For African countries, BRICS membership/partnership means symbolic recognition of Africa’s potential and concrete access to new development opportunities.

Mayya V. Nikolskaya, Alina A. Matveeva

More than the Great Game: The Origins of Anglo-Russian Imperial Rivalry in Eurasia

The Anglo-Russian imperial confrontation extended over a much larger space than classical historiography was inclined to recognize, and this entails an enlargement of the list of players.

Vladimir V. Degoev

Ukraine: History Politics in Regional Identity-Building

The imagined geography of Ukrainian regions, and its underlying images of the past—and actually the entire struggle between regional narratives, which began with Ukrainian independence—has ended. A new history is beginning.

Alexei I. Miller

Did Confucius Dream about the Balance of Power?

In historical and political analysis, it seems meaningless to reduce traditional Western and Eastern IR thought to the Westphalian and tributary systems, respectively, and those in turn to an ‘anarchy of equal sovereignties’ and ‘hegemonic hierarchy,’ respectively. Both models describe political reality, and perception thereof, only within certain spatial and temporal limits.

Alexander V. Solovyov