Russia in Global Affairs

Interstate, transgovernmental, and transnational levels have been developing between Russia and the EU since the early 1990s. After February 24, 2022, many transgovernmental ties were destroyed.

Due to pandemic restrictions, AmCham's Awards Ceremony will be held this year online on Friday, December 4, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. (MSK). The event will feature an interview with the special guest speaker Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-chief of the journal Russia in Global Politics, and will bring together AmCham executives to celebrate the 2020 achievements of the AmCham business community. Master of Ceremonies: Tom Blackwell, CEO, EM.

The EU could find a partner in China, which is pushing its New Silk Road initiative to include Central Asian states, Russia, and Eastern European states. This would connect the EU and the EEU in a new broader framework “from Lisbon to Shanghai,” stimulate inter-regional cooperation, and lead to greater prosperity across the whole of Eurasia.

Once it has consolidated its civilizational subjectivity, Russia will be able to go back to playing an active role in world affairs. This rebound will not be a return to the principles of (neo)-Soviet or superpower globalism. Rather, it will proceed from a new understanding of the country’s international role.

The scope of China’s containment is broadening, while the scope of U.S.-China cooperation is gradually narrowing. Of course, it is easy not to see this if one cites high volumes of U.S.-Chinese trade or the great enthusiasm for American popular culture among the Chinese.

Despite its deep crisis of identity, spawned by nihilistic elites who are both unable to give a sense to existence and to act in favour of the common good, France is marked by a discreet renewal.

How has decay of the American Empire affected globalization? Does the apparent fragmentation of older, Bretton Woods era, more universal forms of global governance into more regional forms imply US relative decline?

Recent overtures by top EU and German officials usher in hopes that relations between Moscow and the West could be on the verge of a turn for the better – but the real question is what direction Russia will take after sanctions are lifted and the tensions have abated.