Russia in Global Affairs

Fyodor Lukyanov: Russia's Strategy as the World Order Collapses https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk7j268peg8&t=7s&pp=2AEHkAIB

How realistic are the current prospects for a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine, and why is Europe emerging as the principal source of uncertainty? In an interview with the Die Weltwoche, Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs, examines the dynamics of the ongoing confrontation, the positions of its key stakeholders, and the factors that continue to hinder progress towards a political resolution. https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/europe-risk-lukyanov/ 📖 Subscribe to the magazine 🌐 Russia in Global Affairs

We are living not just in time of geopolitical instability but of a tectonic shift of the world order, with completely new relationships rapidly emerging and old constructs becoming obsolete. The national interests of Poland and Russia, say the parties might agree to deescalate against each other, may prove to be more concurring and complementary to each other than it might seem at first glance, writes Ilya Fabrichnikov. https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/stranger-things-fabrichnikov/ 📖 Subscribe to the magazine 🌐 Russia in Global Affairs

The Ukraine war will eventually end. But the bigger question will remain: What kind of world will emerge from the ashes? One path leads towards continued division, turmoil, and the perpetuation of zero-sum rivalries. The other path leads towards peaceful coexistence, believes Nelson Wong. According to him, the choice hinges on the strategic decisions that major powers—particularly the U.S., Russia, China, and Europe—make in the coming months and years. https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/confrontation-wong/ 📖 Subscribe to the magazine 🌐 Russia in Global Affairs

Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, has a conversation with Hasan Ünal, Professor at Başkent University in Ankara, on the Strategic Compass programme. They discuss the renewed hostilities between Iran and the United States, Russia’s gradual military advances in Ukraine, and growing calls within Russian society and the political establishment for a more forceful strategy to bring the conflict to an end, including the use of more powerful weapons and strikes against European countries supplying Ukraine. https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/war-dragging-on-lukyanov/ 📖 Subscribe to the magazine 🌐 Russia in Global Affairs

Modern wars reflect a crisis of world order. The rise or revival of new regional or global centers of power has inevitably prompted the former hegemons to contain their growth and strengthen their own position, writes Dmitry Trenin. https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/wars-trenin/ 📖 Subscribe to the magazine 🌐 Russia in Global Affairs

The formation of the new international order is a long and chaotic process. Nuclear weapons are prolonging it, as they prevent a decisive showdown. And as long as the process continues, the use of military force will be predicated on ever-changing calculations of what will provide advantages in the present and (still unknowable) future order, writes Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs. https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/necessity-by-choice-lukyanov/ 📖 Subscribe to the magazine 🌐 Russia in Global Affairs

As great powers shift from normative compliance to selective instrumentalization and infrastructural weaponization, the universal framework is hollowed out of its substance—capacity for ordering. Rules no longer function as real constraints on material power. Consequently, the strategic value of multilateralism as an instrument of asymmetric insulation is drastically diminished, María Celia Martínez de Castro believes. https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/erosion-de-castro/ 📖 Subscribe to the magazine 🌐 Russia in Global Affairs

China is changing and adapting its policies to the arising challenges, while at the same time preserving its traditional philosophy and ancient culture. It does not abandon Confucius, nor Mao Zedong. It does not cling thoughtlessly to the past, but neither does it forsake its roots. China’s ascent, no longer peaceful but increasingly conflictive, can be expected to continue without interruption, writes Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr. https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/china-batista/ 📖 Subscribe to the magazine 🌐 Russia in Global Affairs

The confrontation over Ukraine is moving beyond the framework of a regional crisis, touching on the foundations of strategic stability and European security. Amid growing pressure on Russia, experts are increasingly discussing the limits of escalation and the instruments Moscow may use to restore deterrence. In an interview with Glenn Diesen, John Mearsheimer, an American political scientist and professor at the University of Chicago, and Sergey Karaganov, Academic Supervisor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at HSE University and Honorary Chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, analyze the logic of the military-political confrontation between Russia and the West, the role of the United States in the European security system, and the possible consequences of a scenario in which Moscow decides to sharply raise the stakes. https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/nuclear-strike-karaganov/ 📖 Subscribe to the magazine 🌐 Russia in Global Affairs

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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, writes Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs. https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/dangerous-lukyanov/ 📖 Subscribe to the magazine 🌐 Russia in Global Affairs

Russia-India economic engagement has moved from exploratory trade into a sustained cooperation at scale. Legal alignment will determine whether this cooperation continues smoothly or face limits. The task is to reduce uncertainty where it matters most. When contracts are clearer, certifications are recognized, payments settle with confidence, the relationship becomes easier to sustain, Hriday Sarma believes. https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/legal-systems-sarma/ 📖 Subscribe to the magazine 🌐 Russia in Global Affairs

Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, has a conversation with T-House. He pointed out that the defining feature of China–Russia relations today is “stability.” High-level interactions between the two countries have become so frequent that there is no longer any need to deliberately create “special moments.” Behind this stability lie centuries of geographical proximity and historical ties, as well as the realities shaped by today’s changing international landscape. https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/china-neighbor-lukyanov/ 📖 Subscribe to the magazine 🌐 Russia in Global Affairs

We must decide whether we are going to live indefinitely with the Western increasingly dysfunctional monetary system used as a geopolitical tool, or we will gather economic, political, and intellectual efforts to get out of this trap. The next few years will tell whether Global South countries are up to this challenge, Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr. believes. https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/new-currency-batista/ 📖 Subscribe to the magazine 🌐 Russia in Global Affairs

There will be much talk this May about the so-called “strategic triangle” of Russia, China and the United States. Trump is expected in Beijing first, followed by Vladimir Putin’s visit to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Whenever the leaders of the three most influential powers meet, speculation inevitably follows. What if they strike some grand bargain? What if the world suddenly becomes more orderly? Read a new article by Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs. https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/world-diverge-lukyanov/ 📖 Subscribe to the magazine 🌐 Russia in Global Affairs

The global energy system has entered a period of a profound structural transformation. As the escalating war in the Middle East continues to disrupt traditional energy supply routes and, and the global geoeconomic fragmentation is reshaping trade patterns, writes Hriday Sarma. A new Eurasian energy architecture is emerging with three pivotal actors—Russia, China, and India—forming its basis. https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/eurasian-energy-sarma/ 📖 Subscribe to the magazine 🌐 Russia in Global Affairs

By converting financial balances into tangible assets, integrating industrial capabilities, and fostering human and cultural connections, Russia and India are not only addressing immediate challenges, but also laying the foundation for a new model of partnership—one defined by resilience, mutual benefit, and a shared vision of the future, Salam Socar believes. https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/rupee-trap-socar/ 📖 Subscribe to the magazine 🌐 Russia in Global Affairs

The defeat of Viktor Orban in Hungary’s parliamentary election shouldn’t be seen as a shock. Opinion polls had long pointed in this direction: fatigue with familiar faces is inevitable, and psychologically understandable. Yet the result contains a paradox. Orban’s defeat appears, in some ways, to confirm the very trend he has come to embody: the primacy of the national agenda, “my country first.” Read a new article by Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs. https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/orban-falls-lukyanov/ 📖 Subscribe to the magazine 🌐 Russia in Global Affairs