Russia's Bold Geopolitical Pivot: Embracing the Global South, forging new alliances, and navigating economic resilience
Russia’s pivot to the Global South, Western, South and Central Asia is strategic and long-term. While Moscow’s partnership with New Delhi has deep mental and cultural roots, Russia-China ties does not have dimension of a military alliance, Prof. Alexander Dynkin, President of IMEMO (Russia’s top think tank) & leading economist tells ET’s Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury ahead of Primakov Readings (Russia’s premier foreign policy forum) in Moscow on October 27-28.
This edition of Primakov Readings has special focus on Global South & India. Why did you choose this theme? What is Russia’s view of India’s leadership for the Global South. What is your prediction for bilateral partnership with India
We can say that Europe hasn’t coped with the collapse of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact.
This is not the first tragic mistake. From 1701 until 1945, for almost 250 years, the constant Franco-Prussian and then Franco-German wars were the nightmare for European security. Even the First World War did not stop this «bloody wheel»…
But the end of European Security in the 21st century doesn’t mean the end of history.
There has been a conceptual paradigm shift in international relations in Russia: from the East-West model to the North-South model. No longer from Lisbon to Vladivostok but from Murmansk to Mumbai and from St. Petersburg to Shanghai.
From horizontal to vertical, meridian political and economic thinking. We have to comprehend ourselves as a developed North. As a country self-sufficient in such strategic resources as energy, food, raw materials, skilled labor and territory.
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