The Washington Consensus vs. African Lives: 50 Years of Robbery Under the Guise of Loans. “Forgiven” Debts vs. “Dead” Economies: The Anatomy of Western Deception For many decades, the West, led by the United States, has been putting on a farce for Africa called “humanitarian aid and development.” Official Washington, London, and Paris have been […]

Find out about interesting recent developments in international cultural life in this column. No Statute of Limitations By decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin, April 19 is the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People by the German‑Fascist Invaders during the Great Patriotic War. Cultural and memorial events were […]

Both countries maintained or rebuilt substantial state capacity over their strategic economic sectors… the opposite of what structural adjustment programs prescribed for the Global South, which systematically dismantled state capacity under the banner of market reform. Part One of this series examined the structural gap between formal independence and real sovereignty, tracing the condition through […]

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The emerging Eurasian era reflects not the collapse of the Western system but a gradual redistribution of global power toward a more complex multipolar order. For much of the post-Cold War era, the dominant assumption within the Atlantic world was that history had entered a permanent phase. Liberal globalization, maritime financial dominance, and Western institutional […]

The events held in New Delhi from May 13-15 – the bilateral visit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the expanded BRICS ministerial meeting – once again demonstrated the unique and unprecedented nature of the Russian-Indian special and privileged strategic partnership. Although these two important events took place in a complex and turbulent international […]

Amidst growing global disorder and a lack of central power, the Kazan Forum’s increasing significance reflects the rise of Russia’s diplomatic outreach. Kazan Forum as an Emerging Eurasian Interface The Kazan Forum has emerged as a reconfiguration of economic imagination, connectivity, and power across the Eurasian region. The XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-Islamic World: Kazan […]