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Alternative Organizations by which Russia is Trying to Impose on the International Stage
Alternative Organizations by which Russia is Trying to Impose on the International Stage

Author(s): Florin Iftode
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Universitară Danubius
Keywords: BRICS; security environment; international actors; centers of power

Summary/Abstract: Security or insecurity dominates the current context of international relations. It is asituation generated by the collapse of the Eastern European communist bloc and the USSR in the late80s and early 90s, or the resistance impact to the New World Order fueled by the negative phenomenaof globalization. One of the concerns of any policymakers is to know well the power relations atglobal and regional levels, as from their substance they will know which are the margins of action,towards one direction or another. Therefore, it will always seek to find out who is stronger and whocould take domination on the scenes of international politics. Therefore, we will briefly review thefactors that make the countries Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa unable to defeat theglobal dominance of the US and its major allies, only to budge it a little. Vladimir Putin has createdtwo organizations competing to G7 and NATO. Two summits were held in Ufa, Russian Federation:the Summit of the Organization of Shanghai Cooperation (comprised of Russia, China, Kazakhstan,Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan) and the group BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and SouthAfrica). At the summit the organization was invited Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko, as theleader of a country member in the Eurasian Economic Union countries. The Kremlin is trying to playthe leading role in these organizations, but according to the International experts, such attempts didnot succeed because Moscow cannot go beyond the shadow of Beijing's de facto leader of bothstructures.

  • Issue Year: 8/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 97-114
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English