Category: 4. World

Once, at the Foreign Press Club in Tokyo, during a discussion on Canada’s foreign policy, a Montreal journalist began his talk with a succinct statement: “There are three countries that are important for Canada: the United States, the United States, and the…

In late October last year, a United Nations panel on space traffic coordination stated that the rapid increase in satellites and space debris in low Earth orbit might make this most accessible part of outer space unusable unless countries and companies cooperate and…

The flood of headlines about US President Donald Trump’s first days back in the White House are stunning but unsurprising. We have grown accustomed to his hyperactivity. Yet, unlike eight years ago, the reaction now feels different. Back then, Trump’s ascent was…

“Weapon Against Russia”: Fyodor Lukyanov on the West’s Ukraine Strategy and Putin’s Mistakes

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

The Russia-Ukraine conflict is a minor part of the overall situation. The main part…

Since December 8, 2024, Syria has transitioned from one situation to another that is completely different from its previous state. The overthrow of the Syrian regime coincided with pivotal events in the Middle East. The regime  change in Syria was brought  by…

In my previous articles I wrote about two revolutionary processes—one affecting mostly Western liberal democracies and the other taking place in the domain of geopolitics, namely the decline of Western dominance and the end of the unipolar phase that began after…

With participation of: Bogdan A. Barabash, Evgeniia S. Komarova, Khusravkhon Kh. Nabiev, Dylan P. Royce

Presenting IHES

Since 2021, a research team comprising faculty members and graduate students from MGIMO and HSE has been conducting an annual international…

Predicting the future has become increasingly difficult. The pace of global change is so rapid that events which once unfolded over decades now take place within a single year. While the equidistance of these shifts is hard to pinpoint, there are key people, trends,…