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14 march 2014
A Total But Peaceful Battle Over Ukraine, For a New World Order
Everything will now depend on future developments and on Russia’s strategy. In my opinion, the Kremlin should plan its strategy very thoroughly and with due regard for the strategic nature of the ongoing confrontation.
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10 march 2014
What does Russia want and why?
(2)“It is Putin the conservative and not Putin the realist who decided to violate Ukraine’s sovereignty.”
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8 march 2014
Interests Always Need to be Protected
(4)Russia had to move its troops into Crimea. If we confine ourselves to addressing the initial tasks and do not rush ‘to take Vienna’, to borrow Bismarck’s words, the West is unlikely to impose tough sanctions against Russia.
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26 february 2014
Ukraine must cease to be a tasty trophy for external rivals
The nation’s largest neighbouring partners need to pool their efforts
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21 february 2014
Ukraine, as viewed from Moscow
(8)Vladimir Putin's policies in Ukraine are not part of an attempt to expand Russia's empire westwards. He is simply trying to reduce the chaos caused by the massive incompetence of Ukraine's ruling elite
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25 december 2013
Is the West prodding Moscow into a new Cold War?
If Cold War II hasn't already started, it is somewhere around the corner.
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1 november 2013
Uncertain World: Ukraine’s Final Declaration of Independence
However, Ukraine only maintained its special relationship with Moscow because Russia allowed it. It was very difficult for Moscow to admit that Ukraine, which no one had ever considered separately from Russia, had become a foreign state.
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27 october 2013
Life after Vilnius
Ukraine will experiment on itself and all the other countries in the post-Soviet space are looking forward to watching how it ends. Whether the ensuing economic or institutional changes over rapprochement with the EU appear tangible and positive will determine Russia’s own conduct and the conduct of countries that still rely on it.
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18 october 2013
Russia and the Ghost of Solitude
It has been a long time since Ukraine received as much attention as it has in recent weeks.
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22 august 2013
Uncertain World: Russia and Ukraine on the Verge of a Decisive Choice
Russian-Ukrainian relations are again at the center of attention. Attempts to improve cooperation have quickly ground to a halt.
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Common Dreams or Vulgar Delusions? Elite Preoccupations in Discourses about the ‘Commons’
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Radhika Desai -
Symmetric versus Asymmetric Rule
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Paul Robinson -
Globalization: New Pathways Along the South–South Axis
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Yaroslav Lissovolik, Zhang Henglong -
The Logic of Counterpoint
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Lessons of Korean Democratization for Modern Russia
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Konstantin Asmolov
A new world order: A view from Russia
Since around 2017–2018, the world has been living through a period of progressive erosion, or collapse, of international orders inherited from the past. With the election of Donald Trump and the rapid increase of US containment of Russia and China—which is both a consequence of this gradual erosion and also represents deep internal and international contradictions—this process entered its apogee.
Will US pullout from Syria increase risk of conflict with Russia?
The announcement of the US pullout from Syria was received with caution in Moscow. Besides the security and political challenges it may bring about, the Trump decision could mean the end of a practical, relatively constructive US-Russian approach to conflict at flashpoints.
China: How Fragile Is the Giant?
China is Russia's most important and responsible partner in the international arena. The five years that have passed since the beginning of the fundamental complication of relations between Russia and the West have shown that despite prejudices and lack of trust at the grassroots level, relations between the two countries remain friendly.
A Kingdom divided against himself. Special edition
This is a special issue of Russia in Global Affairs, dedicated to this big topic. Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, euphoria over the triumph of liberal ideology, which is “omnipotent because it is true,” has given way to dark pessimism about the future and led to the loss of ideational and moral guidelines.
Common Dreams or Vulgar Delusions? Elite Preoccupations in Discourses about the ‘Commons’
Our age is witness to a proliferation of discourses about the ‘commons’. They are emerging from more and more quarters, and the word is being applied to more things than ever before. One important strand of discourse, claiming to be communist, seeks to apply it to all kinds of spheres, from the earth and its natural bounty to culture, and to all sorts of resources, from the most immaterial, such as common knowledge, to the most material, such as the use of the earth’s finite natural resources. Internet activists refer to information and knowledge that exits on the web as the ‘digital commons’.
Globalization: New Pathways Along the South–South Axis
The year 2018 was marked by escalation in trade tensions among the world’s largest economies, mostly via bilateral trade restrictions.