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Warfare in a New Epoch: The Return of Big Armies

The threat of a direct military clash between great powers and nuclear war will persist and, perhaps, become even more acute than during the Cold War. The key goal of diplomacy in this new world will be to develop a toolkit that will make it possible to endure decades of turbulence without nuclear bombardment.

Vassily B. Kashin, Andrei A. Sushentsov

The Year of Сrises: How 2020 Will Reshape the Structure of International Relations

The contemporary international structure bears the features of both polar and nonpolar configurations; in the future we may face an entire-ly new structural phenomenon with great powers being the most capable actors, and middle powers and small states increasingly independent in their foreign policy.