Russia in Global Affairs

Russia has a future without Trump and strategic partnership with the U.S.. Russian interests will be determined by the Russians themselves, based on long-term goals and without regard for other powers.

The creation of a genuinely new international framework will be an exceptionally painful process. The available raw material consists of fragments from different historical periods, ideological systems, and institutional models. Somehow these incompatible components must be assembled into something functional.

Moscow’s sharp pivot in late 2021–early 2022 was seemingly meant to finally change things. One can speculate about how events would have developed if Russia had achieved quick success in Ukraine.

No matter how the Iran conflict ends, its outcome will have far-reaching consequences. Is force almighty? How far is it ready to go to prove that it is almighty? And what will be left after that?

The Cold War is sometimes remembered nostalgically as an era of confrontation governed by clear rules. In reality, there was little about it worth romanticizing. And the solutions of that era will not work again. In 1946, there was at least one universal conviction: such a catastrophe must never be repeated. Today, even that certainty appears less secure than it once did.

Forty years since Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev came to power, Russia in Global Affairs asked political scientists and international relations experts in different countries to say how, living in a completely different world of today, they assess the events of that time and the role of his ‘new political thinking.’

The time has come for the Russian academic community to initiate a broad discussion on the rationality of its attempts to stay within a ‘global’ academia that is actually under the structural control and ideological hegemony of the West.

Washington’s extreme reaction is due to panic at the fact that it’s losing its monopoly on global media.

The Russia-Ukraine conflict is a minor part of the overall situation. The main part is what was the casus belli from the perspective of the Russian leadership: it wasn't Ukraine, it was European and American perceptions of how European security should look. And this view emerged immediately after the end of the Cold War. Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, gave an interview to the Die Weltwoche weekly (Switzerland).