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The chapter focuses on some international fractures that are characterizing the present post-Cold War disorder. In particular, the Russian strategy to achieve the recognition of multipolarity at the global level is challenging either the US unipolarity or the Western centrality, when the US moral authority is declining and the EU is experimenting seriously internal divide. Under these circumstances, the Kremlin is pursuing an intense dynamism in a number of geopolitical arena, by promoting - for example - the Eurasian Economic Union, and the BRICS cooperation; by exercising an important influence in the Middle East and the Balkans; by endorsing conservative values worldwide. This is not, however, a “new Cold War”, because the ideological confrontation is playing a secondary, if not marginal role. Nevertheless, the Russian activism is looking for a reconfiguration of moral, political, and economic geographies at the international level. Therefore, this chapter will analyze the simultaneous “Euro-Asian policy” of the Kremlin and the directions that its seems to prioritize versus the Western growing insecurity and decline, in order to understand some crucial dynamics that might powerful affect the existing balance of Powers.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationReconfigurations of Authority, Power and Territoriality.
Subtitle of host publicationEmerging Governance Challenges
EditorsStephen Rosow, George Andreopoulos
Place of PublicationCheltenham
PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing
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Pages17-30
ISBN (Electronic)9781788977692
ISBN (Print)9781788977685
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StatePublished - 20 Jul 2022

    Research areas

  • Multipolarity, Russia, World Disorder, East-West Relations

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