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From Kissinger’s Nightmare to European Quagmire: Divide et Impera in U.S. Foreign Policy

Rein Müllerson

Does Eurasia Really Exist?

Stanislav O. Byshok

The Nuclear Component of the Union State

Dmitry V. Trenin, Andrei V. Rusakovich

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Rein Müllerson

Many of today’s conflicts stem from seeing the world through a prism that divides it into democracies and autocracies, into a liberal-democratic garden surrounded by a jungle. In such a view, those who are not with us (and not like us) are against us. It is high time to overcome such a Manichean mentality.

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Stanislav O. Byshok

Eurasia today appears more as a set of possible scenarios and competing political projects, rather than an established pole of a multipolar world. The new world order is only emerging. Perhaps Eurasia will also emerge within it. For now, however, there exist only the possibilities of Eurasia.

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Dmitry V. Trenin, Andrei V. Rusakovich

Moscow and Minsk need the closer and deeper coordination of foreign and defense policy, given the military and political instability in Western Eurasia, and especially given the Ukraine crisis, which is unlikely to end after an agreement is signed and ceasefire implemented.

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2026 April/June

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From Kissinger’s Nightmare to European Quagmire: Divide et Impera in U.S. Foreign Policy

Rein Müllerson

Many of today’s conflicts stem from seeing the world through a prism that divides it into democracies and autocracies, into a liberal-democratic garden surrounded by a jungle. In such a view, those who are not with us (and not like us) are against us. It is high time to overcome such a Manichean mentality.

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Does Eurasia Really Exist?

Stanislav O. Byshok

Eurasia today appears more as a set of possible scenarios and competing political projects, rather than an established pole of a multipolar world. The new world order is only emerging. Perhaps Eurasia will also emerge within it. For now, however, there exist only the possibilities of Eurasia.

More

The Nuclear Component of the Union State

Dmitry V. Trenin, Andrei V. Rusakovich

Moscow and Minsk need the closer and deeper coordination of foreign and defense policy, given the military and political instability in Western Eurasia, and especially given the Ukraine crisis, which is unlikely to end after an agreement is signed and ceasefire implemented.

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Orban Falls, but Hungary’s Realities Remain

The defeat of Viktor Orban in Hungary’s parliamentary election shouldn’t be seen as a shock. Opinion polls had long pointed in this direction: fatigue with familiar faces is inevitable, and psychologically understandable. Yet the result contains a paradox. Orban’s defeat appears, in some ways, to confirm the very trend he has come to embody: the primacy of the national agenda, “my country first.”

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

From the ‘Rupee Trap’ to Strategic Development: A Vision of Russia–India Shared Prosperity

The opportunity is rooted in Russia’s substantial balances in Indian rupees accumulated through energy exports, currently underutilized. What may appear at first glance as a financial constraint is, in fact, a latent investment resource that can be used to transform bilateral cooperation into a long-term strategic framework generating real economic value.

Russia, India, and China Forging a New Eurasian Energy Architecture

The global energy system has entered a period of a profound structural transformation. As the escalating war in the Middle East continues to disrupt traditional energy supply routes and, and the global geoeconomic fragmentation is reshaping trade patterns, a new Eurasian energy architecture is emerging with three pivotal actors—Russia, China, and India—forming its basis.

Hriday Ch. Sarma

International Hierarchy Expert Survey (Wave V) is Underway

For the fifth consecutive year the International Hierarchy Expert Survey (IHES) collects and publishes panel data on small, middle and great powers to enable research on the dynamics of international hierarchy.

A Huge Miscalculation?

The U.S. and Israel are profoundly sick societies, with Trump and Netanyahu’s actions clearly manifesting the disease. The U.S. is trying to escape the decline and the Western civilization’s shipwreck. Israel, for its part, is seeking to gain dominance in the Middle East. Only two major countries oppose it—Iran and Turkey. If Iran succumbs, Turkey is likely to be the next victim.

Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr.

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China’s Principled Stance amidst Intensifying U.S.-Iran Tensions

Following the drumbeats of war in the Middle East for weeks, the U.S.-Israeli missile strikes against Iran and the latter's retaliation did not come as a surprise, but the survivability of the Iranian regime is now at question. For the international community, this is not merely a regional concern but a global economic precipice.

How Starmer Survived — And Probably Will Again

Unlike our American cousins, the UK dish out consequences to Jeffery Epstein’s associates. Damaging revelations from the Epstein Files showed a problematic friendship with Peter Mandelson, who briefly served as Britain’s Ambassador to the U.S. His former boss, Sir Keir Starmer, had a lot of explaining to do.

James C. Pearce

Avoiding Oblivion… and Rehabilitating Humanity

The source of evil is old Europe, which has been the source of evil for humanity for 500 years: immense wars, two world wars, colonialism, racism, many other awful "isms" and now their post-human values. I think one of the strategic goals of our policy and also the policy of the "international community" is to move Europe away from the centre of the world stage and let them boil in their own juices, which are increasingly unsavoury and malodourous.

Sergei A. Karaganov

L’État c’est lui?

The attacks on Iran are unconstitutional and illegal under US law. If the rule of law still existed within the US, the US military would have refused to obey the orders (given that they are illegal and thus invalid), and the President would be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.

Dylan Payne Royce

Trump the Viking

Ironically, during Donald Trump’s first election campaign in 2016, Russian genealogist Alexey Nilogov asserted that Trump is a direct descendent of Rurik the Viking, a Scandinavian invited in 862 by the people of Novgorod to assume rule. Whether this lineage is physical or spiritual matters little; more important for us is its mere existence.

Raphaëlle Auclert

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