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No. 3

2026 July/September

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Issue Information

Necessity by Choice

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2026-24-3-5-8

SAME OLD BUT DIFFERENT

The Wars of Our Time

Dmitry V. Trenin

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2026-24-3-10-27

War. What Is It Still Good For?

Jennifer Kavanagh

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2026-24-3-28-49

Concepts, Practices, and Technologies of the Military Operation in Ukraine

Sergey M. Minasyan

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2026-24-3-50-65

A New World War: The Road to Victory

Sergei A. Karaganov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2026-24-3-66-80

POST-HEGEMONIC REALITIES

Trumpism: From Rules-Based Global Liberal Order to National-Capitalist Regimes?

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2026-24-3-82-105

The United States: From the Unipolar Moment to Relative Hegemony

Andrei A. Iserov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2026-24-3-106-115

Measuring U.S. Decline

Dylan Payne Royce

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2026-24-3-116-140

SECURITY REVISITED

Digital Sovereigns and Vassals

Yevgeny I. Diskin

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2026-24-3-142-167

The CSTO Parliamentary Assembly in Search of Normative Consensus

Roman S. Vykhodets

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2026-24-3-168-185

A Military Stress Test for BRICS

Georgy D. Toloraya

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2026-24-3-186-192

GEOSTRATEGIC DESIGNS

Shifting Russia’s Economic Activity Eastward

Fedor V. Chernitsyn

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2026-24-3-194-207

The Northern Sea Route as a Field of Deferred Russia-South Korea Cooperation

Oleg V. Kiriyanov, Choi Subeom

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2026-24-3-208-223

World Map: To Each Their Own?

Anton S. Bespalov

DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2026-24-3-224-228

Articles

Necessity by Choice

The formation of the new international order is a long and chaotic process. Nuclear weapons are prolonging it, as they prevent a decisive showdown. And as long as the process continues, the use of military force will be predicated on ever-changing calculations of what will provide advantages in the present and (still unknowable) future order.

Fyodor A. Lukyanov

The Wars of Our Time

Modern wars reflect a crisis of world order. The rise or revival of new regional or global centers of power has inevitably prompted the former hegemons to contain their growth and strengthen their own position.

Dmitry V. Trenin

War. What Is It Still Good For?

States that fail to understand how warfare has changed and continue to seek decisive outcomes and far-reaching political ambitions using military power are likely to find themselves worse off: entangled, depleted, and facing no good options.

Jennifer Kavanagh

Concepts, Practices, and Technologies of the Military Operation in Ukraine

The Russian and Ukrainian armies are acquiring unique experience in modern warfare, based on the combined use of high-tech and traditional weapons in Europe’s largest conflict since WWII.

Sergey M. Minasyan

A New World War: The Road to Victory

We have been forced into a global historical struggle that directly threatens to destroy our country—and, in the medium term, all of humanity. The answer is obvious: the militarization, and concentration on defense, of our political and economic thinking. Not a mindless rush into an unlimited arms race. But our entire ideological, economic, and domestic policy should be geared towards not only our survival, but also towards winning the world war imposed on all humankind.

Sergei A. Karaganov

Trumpism: From Rules-Based Global Liberal Order to National-Capitalist Regimes?

The Trumpist doctrine, like the liberal international order, endorses the imperialist dimension. The effects of unequal transactions, sanctions, and military action abroad continue in support of American political interests. An unresolved tension is found in the doctrine itself—between the promotion of peace and concurrently preparation for war.

The United States: From the Unipolar Moment to Relative Hegemony

The ‘unipolar era’ is over but there is no clear evidence of American decline. In fact, it is the spectacular rise of China which allows us to declare the end of the American unipolar domination.

Andrei A. Iserov

Measuring U.S. Decline

U.S. behavior is produced by the U.S.’s deep ideological identity, not by rational realpolitik that could account for material factors like the limits of one’s own resources.

Dylan Payne Royce

Digital Sovereigns and Vassals

The global Internet’s increasing fragmentation is dragging the contours of digital space out of alignment with national development. To avoid becoming one of the losers in this process, Russia must transition from reactive domestic policy to a proactive foreign policy strategy.

Yevgeny I. Diskin

The CSTO Parliamentary Assembly in Search of Normative Consensus

In order to strengthen cooperation within the CSTO, its agenda must be expanded, and conceptual disagreements over collective security must be overcome.

Roman S. Vykhodets

A Military Stress Test for BRICS

BRICS must be based on ‘soft institutionalization,’ seeking not a unified alliance, but a flexible multi-level structure.

Georgy D. Toloraya

Shifting Russia’s Economic Activity Eastward

Laying the groundwork for shifting Russia’s (macro)economic center eastward requires coordinated federal policies regarding foreign economic activity and internal spatial development, based not on short-term returns, but on the long-term interests of Russia as a civilization-state amid the global military-strategic and geoeconomic transformation.

Fedor V. Chernitsyn

The Northern Sea Route as a Field of Deferred Russia-South Korea Cooperation

The Northern Sea Route is an integral part of Russia’s geo-economic strategy, which includes systemic cooperation with Asian partners. In this context, South Korea is not an alternative to other partners, but is potentially complementary to them, offering advanced industrial, logistical, and management expertise.

Oleg V. Kiriyanov, Choi Subeom

World Map: To Each Their Own?

The political map of the world has never been universally accepted: a map depicts the globe, but also the official viewpoint—even the political philosophy—of its country of origin.

Anton S. Bespalov