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THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY of human civilization, the system of international relations has been moving through radical changes toward complexity and perfection. Today, we have arrived at a unified and homogenous system of commonly accepted norms and rules of behavior approved and recognized by the absolute majority of states. This system emerged from fragments each belonging to its own specific historical stage of social development and related to political, philosophic, cultural, religious and other distinctive features of countries and regions.
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146293
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EVERY AMERICAN PRESIDENT wants to make history. Few of them succeeded; most of them simply were not up to the mark; and some made it with a negative mark, to put it mildly. All and every master of the White House wants to be remembered for a long time, if not forever; by the end of the second term, if the head of the American state reaches this phase of political glory at all, the desire becomes an urge. Personal ambitions become inflated in each and every "lame duck" (the absurd or even ridiculing term applied to the president at the end of his presidential career, which means that he has become, to a certain extent, "waste material"). Each and every "lame duck" tries to use the last chance to prove to the Americans, the world community and, in the final analysis, to himself that he was not another faceless pawn in the Oval Office, that his election was not a mistake and that he has formulated a development algorithm for his country or, better still, for the world, that would not be immediately pushed aside by the next administration on the American political Olympus.
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152677
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THIS ARTICLE is a logical continuation of my previous essay, "Barack Obama: Preliminary Results of Presidency"1 that I ended with: "Obama has several months to go down to history not as the president of numerous conflicts and the state of international relations close to the Cold War but as the president who gave the world a slim hope of positive changes." Today, we can say that he has missed his chance to be remembered as a peacemaker and a realistically minded president who knew how to defuse international tension rather than fan it to worldwide dimensions. Indeed, he did all he could to leave behind a wasteland of American-Russian relations and not the slightest hope of positive changes any time soon.
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148334
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IN RECENT YEARS, we have been watching a grandiose performance in the theater of the absurd, directed by the United States and its closest allies, that can be called Aggressive Russia Threatens the Peaceful and Respectable West. On July 8-9, 2016, the international public could watch another act of the farce, this time played in Warsaw at the NATO summit. Those present at the Polish gathering of the Atlanticists did not strain their intellectual abilities - they merely accused Russia of all conceivable and inconceivable sins and the gloomy state of international relations navigating probably the most hazardous period of its history since the Caribbean Crisis of 1962. While that crisis was more or less promptly resolved through a compromise achieved between the Soviet Union and the United States, today there is no light at the end of the tunnel of confrontation and it will hardly appear any time soon.
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ID:
158178
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On October 1, the regional powers - the government and the Parliament of Catalonia - carried out a referendum on independence from Spain. The Spanish government (that had gone to all lengths to prevent it) declared its results null and void. Prime Minister of Spain Mariano Rajoy dismissed it as a "democratically deplorable spectacle.
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090461
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107096
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2011.
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THE PROTEST WAVE that started in Tunisia in January has spread to a significant part of the Middle East and North Africa. To some degree or other, it has affected about 10 states with ruling regimes collapsing in two countries (as of press time) and with three being in an exclusively difficult situation, fraught with collapse. When, not so long ago, mankind was joyfully seeing in the New Year, 2011, no one even had an inkling of an imminent large-scale upheaval in the Arab world. So the legitimate question is: What happened next and how should the ongoing developments in this volatile part of the world be defined?
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112819
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2012.
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THE 20TH CENTURY is commonly believed to be the golden age of Social Democracy even though the number of enthusiastic supporters is balanced out by the number of no less enthusiastic opponents of this idea. It is obvious, however, that the ideology and its vehicle - the socialist and social democratic parties - have figured prominently on the ideological and political scene of the contemporary world.
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ID:
155347
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SIX MONTHS filled with tension and keen apprehension of the "Trump effect" cropping up on the European soil separated two victories at the presidential elections: the victory of conservative Donald Trump in the United States and liberal Emmanuel Macron in France. The nation responded to the preliminary results of the second round in France announced on May 7 with barely concealed relief and a wave of unrestricted jubilation. The European multinational Liberal International that could barely tolerate Marine Le Pen's populist conservatism and the very similar values of the new American president treated Macron's victory as their common victory. Liberal politicians and the biggest European media of similar political and ideological convictions were lavish with words: L'heure de gloire pour la France, Merci La France! and La France dit Non! etc.
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ID:
101874
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2010.
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THE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (IIS) at MGIMO-University of Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) was formed in May 2009 as successor to the university's Problem Research Laboratory for Systems Analysis of International Relations founded in 1976. The founding of the IIS should be seen as an important event in the continuing development of MGIMO-University, an essential phase in turning it into not only a recognized center of education but a world-standard research center as well.
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138049
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The twenty-five-year-long partnership between Russia and the West (never easy and never straightforward), which began back in the last years of Soviet perestroika, has ended. It will be probably replaced with a new structure of international cooperation much more pragmatic and devoid of illusions and exaggerated expectations nurtured by Russia rather than the West. It is wrong to expect that when the situation in Ukraine has been stabilized (it will be stabilized sooner or later) the world (or at least the part which stretches from Vladivostok in the east to Vancouver in the west) will go back to its pre-crisis state. There is no way back. The old bridges were burned while new bridges have not yet been built. The paradigm of world development geared at the prospects of long-term partnership (which, for a long time, had looked the only option) was destroyed.
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106112
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151598
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TODAY'S INTENSE CONFRONTATION between Russia and the West is causing increasing anxiety both among political experts and among ordinary people all over the world. Polemics between the two sides tend to be sharper than propaganda philippics of the Cold War era.
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ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, mankind entered the 20th century as the "golden age" of realized ideals of freedom and humanism. Reality proved to be different: this was the cruelest and the bloodiest period in the history of modern civilization.
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137310
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102008
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2010.
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THIS YEAR the UN marks yet another anniversary - 65 years since its foundation. There has not been a single day in the history of the World Organization when it would not be subjected to criticism over one thing or another. Weakness, a lack of democracy, bureaucratization, the inability in a number of instances to take prompt and effective measures to prevent or stop crises - these are only a few points on the list of complaints about the UN from by its opponents. At the same time its critics often regard the UN as a kind of a self-sufficient entity, completely autonomous in its activity, and capable of putting itself above the objective circumstances that limit its scope of action. This approach ignores the basic postulate of the UN structure - that its building elements are sovereign states whose will the Organization is ultimately designed to express. In this context there is good reason to say that the UN is ready to help its member states find effective responses to modern challenges to the degree to which they are ready for mutual understanding and cooperation. The UN is a kind of a barometer of the state of international relations, but as the State Committee for Hydrometeorology is unable to influence climate so the resources of the World Organization in regulating world processes are far from unlimited.
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ID:
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We remember the tragedies of the two world wars; the lessons of history do not let us "go blind." New threats bear the same old ugly features: selfishness and intolerance, aggressive nationalism and claims to exclusiveness.
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