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The New World Disorder

In order to understand the present and the future of the world order, an analysis should start with the last phase of the bipolar system, late Gorbachev era.

Alexander Dubowy

A World Without Superpowers

September 11, 2001, is popularly believed to be the watershed event. Indeed, the “mega terror” acts in New York and Washington made people take a new look at the world, at least from two vantage points.

Yevgeny Primakov

Before the Change at the Helm of the UN

For the UN to continue to be truly indispensable, international officials and national governments, members of the academic elite and civil society leaders will have to reach consensus on the way ahead, avoiding over-ambitious plans, but also half-measures portrayed as full-fledged reforms.

Aleksandr Gorelik

International Law: Execute Not Pardon

The norms regarding international responsibility are now reduced to defining the responsibility of states for internationally wrongful acts. Yet the main problem lies in the non-binding nature of the majority of decisions made by bodies of international justice and the incompetence of most of them.

Putting Anarchy in Order

International law does not work well in a world with unipolar tendencies since in such a world international law (as a result of bargaining and compromises) and its interpretation are dictated from a unipolar center.

Rein Müllerson

Three ways Russian foreign policy could change international law

Moscow’s recent bold foreign policy moves in Ukraine and Syria might have a significant impact on the future direction of international law.

Nikolay Shevchenko

UN Security Council: Veto Option Does More Good Than Bad

Those who argue that the rising power of the international public opinion is the strong argument against the preservation of the veto power are in fact wrong.