Category: 4. World

In recent years we have become accustomed to a great deal, yet world politics continues to set new records. Or perhaps sink to new depths, depending on your taste. One week in January provided a full set of examples: the kidnapping of Venezuela’s presidential…

For citation, please use:
Müllerson, R., 2026. From Kissinger’s Nightmare to European Quagmire: Divide et Impera in U.S. Foreign Policy. Russia in Global Affairs, 24(2), pp. 22–41. DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2026-24-2-22-41

The history of international relations is…

“Nuclear escalation may open Pandora’s box, but it will also free the world from the 500-year-long Western yoke”

Sergei A. Karaganov

We will continue to strike at the Ukrainian army, because it is…

The recent developments in the Middle East are propelling the region into a new reality characterized by uncertainty, intensified competition, conflict, and pronounced polarization among emerging powers vying for influence and dominance.

New security axes are…

If there were an award for Most Unfulfilled Personal Wish of the Year, Donald Trump would be the runaway winner. His desire to receive the Nobel Peace Prize has been so overt – and his actions so clearly aligned with that goal – that the disappointment is…

Two quotes, separated by four years, show how profoundly global politics has shifted.

The first reads: “The United States of America shall undertake to prevent further eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and deny accession to the Alliance…

If there was a single theme tying American foreign policy together in 2025, it would be a decisive shift away from the rhetoric of ‘global leadership’ toward an unapologetic assertion of privilege within its own geopolitical neighborhood. Donald Trump is ending…