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By the end of the second decade of the 21st century, the Russian foreign policy discourse had transformed from hard-headed “sober realism” into bizarre “values-obsessed realism.” The texts of Russia’s official strategies now appeal to such aspects of political identity as “spiritual values,”...

After 2013, Turkey’s foreign policy has been noted for neo-Ottomanist rhetoric and anti-Western discourse, which resulted in the deterioration of relations with the West. To disclose the patterns of anti-Westernism in Turkish foreign policy, this paper analyzes official speeches of Turkish...

Why does India have a vested interest in Eurasia? How feasibile is non- Western Eurasia’s future? In this paper, the term ‘Eurasia’ refers to non- Western Eurasia, that is, excludes the EU. Indian policymakers and scholars believe that the Eurasian region’s strategic location, culture and...

The end of the Cold War opened up new vistas for building a new international order in Europe, free of dividing lines. The more so since the liberal world order, which emerged due to the evolution of the global order in the field of security, on the one hand, and the rules, norms, and practices...

Poland and Lithuania are young and strategically inexperienced countries that do not fully understand the consequences of their actions. Their goal is to undermine Belarus internally, to deprive it of its status of agency in international affairs, and to make use of its resources and the outflow of ...

The paper discusses the prerequisites for the emergence of the Indo- Pacific region, or Indo-Pacific, as a conceptual term to denote a new vast geostrategic space that embraces closely connected countries facing similar challenges. To this end, the article analyzes geopolitical transformations that ...

The article examines the evolution of Russia’s soft power strategy over the past twenty years. The author analyzes the goals the Russian leadership set when starting this work, and shows that those goals were not limited to improving the Russian image on the world stage. The following periodization ...

Despite the reputation of being objective and non-partisan, experts frequently validate concepts and ideas popular within the dominant elite circles. To support this argument, we have taken a closer look into the Atlantic Council (AC), an American think tank with clear preferences for the...

The decline of the U.S.-led liberal world order revealed the changes in the international system several years before the recent crises. The central argument in this article is that the COVID-19 humanitarian crisis, the crisis of the political elite in the West and the looming economic crisis have...

The future of negotiation and action on limiting climate change is likely to be characterized by Realist considerations of state interest and power, but with a new understanding of state interest shaped by moral pressure from international communities. Hopefully, this will lead to a new form of...

The spread of dual citizenship in the post-Soviet space is becoming one of the most important tools for ensuring Russia’s hegemony in the region. However, this phenomenon is often overlooked in foreign policy analysis. The study of changes in Russian legislation shows that over the past three years ...

Do authoritarian regimes engage in active export of their political systems? Or are they primarily concerned about their geopolitical interests? This article explores these questions by examining Russia's policy towards Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transnistria. In all three de facto states, Moscow ...

Armed conflicts are generally associated with the use of hard power for coercing and forcing an opponent to do something against its will in a situation where war is an extension of politics. However, there are many scholarly observations about the important role of soft power in armed conflicts,...

The current rapid development of some Asian economies and the projected economic dominance of Asia in the 21st century are reasons enough to call it “the Asian century.” But will Asia’s economic growth entail an increase in political power and cultural influence? In this article the author looks at ...

The article analyzes the specific experience of civil society development in the Middle East, which remarkably exposes the dilemma underlying the civil society concept as a matrix of working democracy. This concept limits the understanding of the very phenomenon of civil society and peculiarities...

This analytical essay was written in response to Marlene Laruelle's article “Accusing Russia of Fascism: Politics around Russia's Belonging to Europe,” published in Russia in Global Affairs, 18(4), 2020, pp. 100-123; DOI:10.31278/1810-6374-2020-18-4-100-123.