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The New World Order

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DOI10.1177/002070200806300206
Published date01 June 2008
AuthorNikolai Zlobin
Date01 June 2008
Subject MatterRussian Resurgence
Nikolai Zlobin
The new world
order
US and Russia in the post-Soviet space—mutual squeezing or
cooperation?
| International Journal | Spring 2008 | 307 |
The world has moved into a new era since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The bipolar world in which the global sociopolitical system was a hostage of
relations between Moscow and Washington—and in which stability de-
pended on the ability of the two superpowers to reach agreements between
themselves—has passed into history. But the incipient unipolar world, led by
the US, is now demonstrating its inability to cope effectively with the chal-
lenges of the present. This article confronts problems with the developing
world system.
Such problems are a consequence of a series of factors. Geoeconomic di-
visions have changed the entire system of international relations, including
the main international organizations and structures, rules, and regulations
that were passed down to us from the preceding period and are mostly inef-
fective today. The most recent example is Kosovo. The need to establish a
new system of international organizations and new international law has
met with strong resistance on the part of those elites that had considerable
political advantages in the old world order. The formalized system of man-
aging international relations that served the geopolitics of the Cold War
Nikolai Zlobin is senior research fellow and director of the Russia and Eurasia project at
the World Security Institute in Washington, DC.

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