MULTILATERALISM, DEMOCRACY, CONCERT OF POWERS: RUSSIA’S RED LINES
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https://doi.org/10.53477/2284-9378-21-02Abstract
The debate for resettling the world is in its pick. Different states are proposing nuanced approaches and solutions that would enable a better grip on the global governance of their own interests. Concepts are relativized and revisionism is carefully hide beneath respect for the international rules and commitments. As is the case with democracy, embraced by all international players and subject to numerous interpretations by several actors. Multilateralism doesn’t seams to mean the same for different stakeholders and new initiatives are challenged from the positions of a raising fear to be let aside in the big debates about the future world. But fact is that continuity will play a role, a sophisticated system holding all alternatives will be in place and privileging one or another form is just a matter of global choice, appeal and influence of a project or another, a model or the next. This multiple circles coexistence model could be challenge by the new initiatives and their influence, the number of participants and their geopolitical footprint at the global level.
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