Russia and the Changes of World Order

Professor Alexander Lukin has published a chapter “Russia and the Changes of World Order” as part of the book: Šrāders Sandis, Terry Spencer (eds.), A Restless Embrace of the Past? The Conference on Russia Papers 2022 (Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2022).

The current international system could be described as a post-bipolar system in transition to a multipolar one. The transition means that the brief period of unipolarity that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union has passed, but a mature multipolar system has yet to emerge. The West’s adaptation to the new reality of a multipolar world will most likely take some time but is necessary. This chapter will argue that a new International Concert, akin to the Concert of Europe after the Napoleonic Wars, is required. It should be founded on mutual respect for each other’s interests and represent a new expression of the concept of peaceful coexistence. 

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