NEW PACIFIC STRATEGIES: OPPORTUNITY OR REALITY? INFLUENCE OF THE “CHINESE FACTOR” ON THE SITUATION IN EURASIA AND THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION

The article analyzes the essence of the new strategic moment in the region and the influence of the “Chinese factor” on the situation inEurasiaand the AsiaPacific region. The author discusses the components of the “Chinese factor”, its practical consequences, as well as its foreign policy, military and political significance. The article shows how applied issues can be transformed into foreign policy and military doctrines, determine practical foreign and military policies, the system of international relations and political affairs in the region. The author briefly reviews the key aspects of regional doctrines of leading states in the region, makes assumptions about the possible evolution and modification of these doctrines in the future and formulates the conditions that might determine the practical steps of the regional powers. The article also assesses the possibility of emergence of new Pacific strategies in the region and examines their main parameters

WHAT IS CHINA TO US?

Foreword by the Editor-in-Chief and founder of the journal Comparative Politics Russia to special issues: “China as a Global Factor: A Comparative Analysis of Responses” and “Contemporary International Relations: Theory and Practice of Comparative Analysis of Responses to External and Internal Challenges” explaining the structure of the journal issues and the logic of interconnection between published articles within the journal

The Role of the West in Evolving World Order, and Russian Politics

Coexistence of structurally different modernities with various historical backgrounds and systemic/structural organizations leads to the coexistence of different traditional and new actors within the same spatial-temporal continuum of international relations, with macroregions and nation-states differentiating in accordance with structural principles of their organization. The type of political access in particular nation-states and the combination of different types of political access in macroregions of different structural organizations and historical phase, ultimately determine a development strategy, the tone and priorities of foreign policy of states which still have powerful infl uence on further evolution of world politics space. Identifying such interrelations helps to analyze the impact of the type of social and political access within states, coalitions of states and global regions on the evolution and features of world politics space as well as to employ social engineering of national and global space to maximize benefi ts in the process of social development. Theoretical and empirical conceptualization of interdependence between external and internal processes, including political component, makes it possible to develop applied theories of competitive regional and national development patterns based on higher cooperative trends in national strategies for modernization and development while defending adequately national interests

The Logic of the New World Political Architectonics: Praxis and Theory of Rethinking Multidimensional World and China ‘s Search of Its Place

The arising logic of the formation of multilayer polycentric world in the post-pandemic world is shown in this article. Formation stages in Russia of a theoretical knowledge about formation of the multidimensional, interdependent and polycentric world are analyzed. The attention is paid to practice of China search of its place in this new world. Benefits of comprehensive world regional studies as cross disciplinary methodology framework of the analysis of processes of the multidimensional and polycentric world and at the same time as a stage of formation of future theory of the multidimensional and interconnected polycentric world are shown. To help the explanation of the interconnectivity of the multilayer world of global regions the concepts of functionality and transregionalism are developed. Attention is paid to discussions about the place of Oriental (Asian and African) Studies in the Russian nomenclature of Social Sciences. Main directions of transforming International Relations as an academic discipline in Russia are shown

RUSSIA, CHINA, EUROPE, EURASIA AND THE USA: COVID-2019 AND AFTER – WHAT OUR FUTURE MAY BE? SUMMARY OF THE ONLINE INTERNATIONAL ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Summary of the online international roundtable discussion “Russia, China, Europe, Eurasia and the USA: COVID-2019 and after – What Our Future May Be?” taken place on April, 11, 2020 via Zoom as an online conference*. The topics discussed are: perception of China in different countries, Russian-Chinese partnership, and its Role, US / China / Russia’s changing international role after COVID-19, SARSCov-2019/COVOD-2019; COVID-19 and its consequences for international order; China, Europe and the USA political economy models and COVID-19.The conference was organized in the frameworks of the online academic events series of the Centre for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects, MGIMO University: “The World-Eurasia-China Agenda and Regional Problematique. OnLine Discussions”

RISE OF CHINA AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE WORLD AND REGIONAL ORDERS. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS: PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Proceedings of the roundtable “Regional Orders and the Rise of CHINA”, organized in the framework of the RISA Convention on October 21, 2019 at MGIMO University

NEW INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS – WHAT ARE THEY?

Discussing the book: New International Relations: Main Trends and Challenges for Russia / ed. A.V. Lukin. Moscow: International Relations, 2018. 590 p. (in Russian

IMPACT OF CIVILIZATIONAL SPECIFICS OF THE BIGGEST COUNTRIES ON THEIR SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

The article is devoted to civilizational factors of the largest Asian states, which attract much academic attention around the world, India and China, and the infl uence of these factors and their peculiarities on social, political and economic development. The article is prepared as a discussion of two books prepared by the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences: “Indian Civilization in the Globalizing World” and “Chinese Civilization in the Globalizing World”. The authors rely on comparative method to analyze civilizational codes of India and China, to define key peculiarities of cultural and political development of the both states, to speculate on their historical paths, political systems, religious and ideological factors in the context of civilizational codes. Moreover, the article discusses international environment and the level and trends of economic development. The authors draw a number of conclusion about similarities and differences in two ancient civilizations, as well as their modernization patterns