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Force and Its Limits (If Any)

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

Can the Crisis in Russo-Japanese Relations Be Reversed?

Dmitry V. Streltsov

The Phantom Menace

Aleksandr A. Vershinin

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Fyodor A. Lukyanov

No matter how the Iran conflict ends, its outcome will have far-reaching consequences. Is force almighty? How far is it ready to go to prove that it is almighty? And what will be left after that?

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Dmitry V. Streltsov

Excessive demonization of Japan and freezing relations with it in response to its participation in the West’s anti-Russian coalition pose significant risks to Russian national interests. And it is relevant that Japan’s anti-Russian policy has motivations that qualitatively differ from the West’s.

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Aleksandr A. Vershinin

Moscow’s sharp pivot in late 2021–early 2022 was seemingly meant to finally change things. One can speculate about how events would have developed if Russia had achieved quick success in Ukraine.

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Can the Crisis in Russo-Japanese Relations Be Reversed?

Dmitry V. Streltsov

Excessive demonization of Japan and freezing relations with it in response to its participation in the West’s anti-Russian coalition pose significant risks to Russian national interests. And it is relevant that Japan’s anti-Russian policy has motivations that qualitatively differ from the West’s.

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The World Order Has Collapsed. Now Comes the Dangerous Part

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.

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

Harmonizing Russian and Indian Legal Systems

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 Ch. Sarma

A New Reserve Currency for the Global South

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.

From the ‘Rupee Trap’ to Strategic Development: A Vision of Russia–India Shared Prosperity

The opportunity is rooted in Russia’s substantial balances in Indian rupees accumulated through energy exports, currently underutilized. What may appear at first glance as a financial constraint is, in fact, a latent investment resource that can be used to transform bilateral cooperation into a long-term strategic framework generating real economic value.

International Hierarchy Expert Survey (Wave V) is Underway

For the fifth consecutive year the International Hierarchy Expert Survey (IHES) collects and publishes panel data on small, middle and great powers to enable research on the dynamics of international hierarchy.

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China’s Principled Stance amidst Intensifying U.S.-Iran Tensions

Following the drumbeats of war in the Middle East for weeks, the U.S.-Israeli missile strikes against Iran and the latter's retaliation did not come as a surprise, but the survivability of the Iranian regime is now at question. For the international community, this is not merely a regional concern but a global economic precipice.

How Starmer Survived — And Probably Will Again

Unlike our American cousins, the UK dish out consequences to Jeffery Epstein’s associates. Damaging revelations from the Epstein Files showed a problematic friendship with Peter Mandelson, who briefly served as Britain’s Ambassador to the U.S. His former boss, Sir Keir Starmer, had a lot of explaining to do.

James C. Pearce

Avoiding Oblivion… and Rehabilitating Humanity

The source of evil is old Europe, which has been the source of evil for humanity for 500 years: immense wars, two world wars, colonialism, racism, many other awful "isms" and now their post-human values. I think one of the strategic goals of our policy and also the policy of the "international community" is to move Europe away from the centre of the world stage and let them boil in their own juices, which are increasingly unsavoury and malodourous.

Sergei A. Karaganov

L’État c’est lui?

The attacks on Iran are unconstitutional and illegal under US law. If the rule of law still existed within the US, the US military would have refused to obey the orders (given that they are illegal and thus invalid), and the President would be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.

Dylan Payne Royce

Trump the Viking

Ironically, during Donald Trump’s first election campaign in 2016, Russian genealogist Alexey Nilogov asserted that Trump is a direct descendent of Rurik the Viking, a Scandinavian invited in 862 by the people of Novgorod to assume rule. Whether this lineage is physical or spiritual matters little; more important for us is its mere existence.

Raphaëlle Auclert

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