Covid-19 Pandemic and the World Order

2021 ◽  
pp. 8-24
Author(s):  
Elena Chebankova ◽  
Petr Dutkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
World Order ◽  
Potential Outcomes ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
The Past ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Ideological Struggle ◽  
The World ◽  
Media Manipulation

This paper examines the origins, nature, and potential outcomes of the global crisis induced by the Covid-19 pandemic. The authors argue that the crisis has been animated by the two most important groups of factors that have been simmering in the world‘s economic and political system during the past six decades and have been accelerated by the pandemic. First, the dynamic of the Covid-19 crisis illuminated the existing challenges of the contemporary capitalist system, which is generally legitimated via the instruments of moral panic and media manipulation. Each consecutive crisis of capitalism ends with the redistribution of power resources to some groups of participants. Second, the Covid-19 crisis has been taking place within the conditions of a systemic and ideological struggle between two global elite factions that harbour drastically different approaches to the changing world order and have different politico-economic goals and intentions. The authors will argue that the crisis will not change the world drastically, yet it will amplify these ongoing tensions, illuminate them to many general observers, and deepen the already-existing systemic instability.

Educación financiera: ¿por qué la necesitamos?

2021 ◽  
pp. 16-29
Author(s):  
Adriana Toledo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Financial Education ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire Nation ◽  
The Right

For the longest time, roughly from the 16th century, with the establishment of capitalism around the world, people have been working towards ways of ensuring their survival by accumulating assets and money. Capitalism is a system predominated by private ownership and the constant quest for profit and the accumulation of wealth. Despite being conceived as an economic system model, it influences political, social, cultural, ethical and many other spheres, encompassing our affecting our entire nation. With the onset of globalization over the past 50 years, the capitalist system has become the predominant system throughout the world and effects all beings in one way or another. In an effort to generate wealth, many factors influence decisions made within the world of finances, and ignorance of the theme is no longer an option. Financial education is an important discipline in providing citizens the opportunity to exercise their rights and duties within the financial world, allowing for more accurate decision-making. Financial citizenship entails an individual’s ability to make the right choices, exercising their rights and fulfilling the associated duties. It is a concept taken from the term citizenship.

What Russia Can Teach Us about Power and Influence in World Politics

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-167
Author(s):  
Andrei Melville ◽  
Andrei Akhremenko ◽  
Mikhail Mironyuk
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Political Community ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Major Power ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Western Democracy ◽  
The World ◽  
National Power ◽  
Distribution Of Power

There is a striking opposition within the current discourse on Russia’s position in the world. On the one hand, there are well-known arguments about Russia’s “weak hand” (relatively small and stagnating economy, vulnerability to sanctions, technological backwardness, deteriorating demography, corruption, bad institutions, etc.). On the other hand, Russia is accused of “global revisionism”, attempts to reshape and undermine the liberal world order, and Western democracy itself. There seems to be a paradox: Russia with a perceived decline of major resources of national power, exercises dramatically increased international influence. This paradox of power and/or influence is further explored. This paper introduces a new complex Index of national power. On the basis of ratings of countries authors compare the dynamics of distribution of power in the world with a focus on Russia’s national power in world politics since 1995. The analysis brings evidence that the cumulative resources of Russia’s power in international affairs did not increase during the last two decades. However, Russia’s influence in world politics has significantly increased as demonstrated by assertive foreign policy in different parts of the world and its perception by the international political community and the public. Russia remains a major power in today’s world, although some of its power resources are stagnating or decreasing in comparison to the US and rising China. To compensate for weaknesses Russia is using both traditional and nontraditional capabilities of international influence.

scholarly journals Is There A Need in a New «Concert of Great Powers»? Discussions in the American Expert Community

2021 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Korney Kozlov
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Political System ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Charles I ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
The World ◽  
Expert Community ◽  
The 19Th Century

The world political system is recently passing through a period of rapid changes. Decades of Western dominance are coming to an end, while strengthening China and Russia are eroding the weakening western leadership and its liberal values. In order to reduce tensions between the great powers and prevent possible confrontation, Richard N. Haas and Charles I. Kupchan propose to create a modern edition of the "European Concert" of the 19th century. Their opponents claim that the experience of the past is not always relevant in the present, and the "concert" system will not work in the modern circumstances. The article reveals the arguments of both sides.

scholarly journals Empire, Tianxia and Great Unity: A historical examination and future vision of China’s international communication

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Zhengrong Hu
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Chinese Scholars ◽  
Dominant Structure ◽  
Future Vision ◽  
Historical Examination

A theoretical imagination of the world order and global landscape is necessary for China’s international communication. ‘Empire – nation state’, the dominant structure in the contemporary world entails the logic of imperialism. However, the perspective of ‘the world’ (Tianxia; 天下) in ancient China introduced alternative theoretical challenges. Chinese scholars have been devoted to developing a vision of a society of ‘Great Unity’ (Datong; 大同) over the past century. Based on historical exanimation, this article aims to explore new approaches of China’s international communication.

scholarly journals “TANGYRA” OF MIKHAIL ATAMANOV AND “YUGORNO” OF ANATOLIY SPIRIDONOV: COMPARATIVE AND TYPOLOGICAL ASPECT

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 454-458
Author(s):  
Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Fedoseeva
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Status ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Social Utopia

The article examines the artistic and aesthetic parallels in the Mari epic “Yugorno” and the Udmurt “Tangyra” - the heroic legends of the peoples of the Finno-Ugric world. The idea is that the poetic commonality between them is a consequence of folklore and cultural typology and historical connection. The similarity of motives and plots is manifested in the pantheon, in views on the world order, in the nature of the relationship between gods and people, in the types of characters. By their poetic nature “Tangyra” and “Yugorno” occupy a place among the classical European epics, with which they are brought together by themes, socio-cultural status of heroes (cultural and social demiurges), views on the ancestors, descriptions of clashes between princes as representatives of the highest level and relations with neighboring peoples, philosophical views of the Udmurts and Mari on the past, present and future. It is about the main differences between the epics “Yugorno” and “Tangyra”, which lie in the peculiarities of plots and composition, poetics and aesthetics of works, their ethnic philosophy and social utopia.

scholarly journals Cosmopolitanism and Planetary Studies: Paradigms for Rewriting the Past

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-128
Author(s):  
Letitia Guran
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
World Order ◽  
Republic Of Letters ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Dialogue ◽  
Romanian Literature

This paper discusses recent models of world literature rewriting in light of the 2018 Romanian Literature as World Literature, which remaps some of the most representative Romanian authors and movements according to the intersectional frameworks advanced by Immanuel Wallerstein’s world systemstheory, Pascale Casanova’s world republic of letters, and others. In their plea for what the book’s editors call planetary, cosmopolitan studies, the sixteen contributors reread canonical Romanian texts and advocate for a new literary world order, within which Romanian literature is regarded in a less hierarchical/dichotomic fashion, as a literature of the world. This initiative seeks to reposition Romanian literature as a diverse, active, and dynamic partner in the world’s cultural dialogue. My essay addresses a paradox which is very much at the centre of the book: how can one promote intercultural, non-hegemonic models of dialogue when translation and marketability still restrict the participation of “marginal” cultures in the planetary, cosmopolitan exchange of ideas?

scholarly journals The genre resource of the fable in the literature of Russian futurism

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-130
Author(s):  
Tatiana Ternova
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
The Past ◽  
Original Title ◽  
The World ◽  
Russian Futurism ◽  
High Literature ◽  
Transitional Era

The article deals with the artistic possibilities of the fable genre in the work of Russian futurists. Wanting to transform the principles of the world order in general, the representatives of the current naturally drew attention to the existing system of genres, which they perceived not only as an element of the culture of the past, but also as an expression of a worldview that lost its connection with reality. The genre of the fable is in demand among the futurists precisely because it lies almost outside the genre system of high literature. In the work of V. Khlebnikov, A. Kruchenykh, V. Mayakovsky, the fable is endowed with additional tasks, fulfilling the role of a parable (Khlebnikov), a pamphlet and an advertising text (Mayakovsky). The text of A. Kruchenykh “Sobasnya”, having an original title, exemplifies, inherent in the transitional era, of the idea of updating the genre.

Russia’s China Policy: Growing Asymmetries and Hedging Options

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-550
Author(s):  
Igor Denisov ◽  
Alexander Lukin
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
China Policy ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Near Term ◽  
Economic Partnership

Abstract This article examines the state and prospects of Russia’s policy toward China. We look at recent trends in the evolution of the world order, the history of Moscow-Beijing relations, and the changes in the balance of power between Russia and China to offer a forecast of Russia’s China policy in the near term. Special attention is paid to the role of the 2001 Treaty of Good-Neighborliness, Friendship, and Cooperation. The authors conclude that, despite the Treaty’s significance, the international situation – and indeed the relative strengths of the two countries – have significantly changed over the past 20 years. The new conditions will inevitably compel Russia to adjust its policy toward China. Moscow, as always, will seek to develop its political and economic partnership with Beijing. However, it will likely move toward hedging against risks that excessive dependence on China could bring about.

The Concept of ‘Ideological Struggle’: Some Soviet Interpretations

1989 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrus Pork
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Interaction Process ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Past ◽  
Exchange Of Information ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Ideological Struggle ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Flow Of Information

IT IS NOW OFTEN SAID THAT THE MODERN WORLD IS interdependent, that there is an intensive interaction of military, political, economic and other factors in the world. There is no doubt that one of the most important aspects of this interaction process is the international flow of information, and that political ideas have a special place in that exchange of information.What follows is an attempt to look at some phases in the development of the Soviet perception of Western non-socialist political ideas over the past few years. As is generally known, Soviet ideologists have often emphasized the need for ideological struggle against these non-Marxist, bourgeois political ideas, and they continue to do this even in the present period of perestroika. At the same time it is obvious that major changes are taking place in Soviet political thought.

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