Russia's actions in foreign affairs the European in the next 10 to 20 years will change the world in a comprehensive way. The European Community's disregard for Russia will lead them to find new allies abroad. Russia will ally itself with two of the world's up-and-coming super powers. These will be China and India, the two most populated countries in the world. This tripartite alliance will dominate world affairs because of Russia's technology and political leadership and India and China's will to pursue military and economic agreements with Russia. Russia will not choose to ally itself with these countries but will be forced too because of the European Community's and N.A.T.O.'s treatment of it s a defeated nation. The European Community's lack of respect for Russia in foreign affairs will be the driving force in Russia for it to ally with its Eurasian neighbors. Due to E.U. enlargement eastward, Russia is forced to look east of itself for expansion and opportunities as it faces severely decreasing influence in Europe.
The former minister of foreign policy for Russia notes in his book that "Europe's potential for resolving issues of the modern world goes underused" and thinks that siding with Asia and the Middle East may be the smarter way as they "have shown a much higher level of political unity and harmony in key areas" . From this we can see that Russia's views are not in line with the European Union's views, and are more interested in taking up political relations with Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Russia's most recent foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, revealed that Russia does not "aspire to membership in the EU, but we are ready to cooperate in the spheres of economy and external security" (Russia not aspiring to...
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International politics as one may imagine includes foreign affairs. This is why the topic and focus of this paper revolves around the current event within Eastern Europe. It will focus on both Russia, Ukraine, and the world, and from it, it will be analyzed by using the resources provided within class. After all it is a International Politics course, and one of the best ways to effectively put the skills and knowledge to use is to focus on an event or current event. The paper will attempt to go over in a chronological order of the events that has happened, and what is happening currently over in Ukraine. Afterwards, an analyzed input will be implemented providing reasoning behind Russia's actions, and actions of the world, and potentially some solutions.
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Since the earliest recorded history, there has always been one elusive title that a State has strived for, the title of Super Power. Power is one of the fundamental characteristics of the international system and the distribution of power among states. It is obvious that states are unequal in power and this “entails a number of important implications for international politics”. As a result of this lack of power, the ‘weak states’ desires and concerns are often neglected and the ‘strong states’ demands usually shape the international agenda. In the Modern Society, some would argue that we have two great powers in Russia and the United States, but if you measure and compare the two countries, The United States is more powerful. Some of these categories are population in which the U.S has more than double Russ...