International Security in the Multipolar Global Order and Russia’s Role in it

Abstract

The article shows the complex process of building a new, multi-polar
international order and Russia’s role in it, especially in the field of future
peace and international security. The author presents many interesting theses
and asks some research questions. For example, he states that the future
international system that is being created now will not only have a multi-polar
shape but will also be multi-civilizational. He also highlights that, apart from
the United States and the European Union, Russia will play a very important
role in the system but only if it becomes a modernized and democratic country.
Thus, it is necessary to do everything not to let these entities disappear
from the political map of the world and make them cooperate in order to
strengthen the peace and international security. In the author’s opinion, in
the nearest future Russia will be forced to cooperate with the Euro-Atlantic
system and to lead a multi-directional foreign policy, i.e. to cooperation with
the European Union and NATO on the one hand, and with the emerging
economies, especially China and India, on the other hand. Today, Russia
needs Western technologies and loans as well as Asian markets in order to
carry out necessary modernization and become an important member of the
“concert of powers” that will be responsible for the new international system
and its security.