A New World Order

Abstract

Yulia Latynina discusses the consequences of the annexation of Crimea for Russian and European politics, arguing that China is likely to derive the most benefit from the conflict.

Keywords::

• Authoritarianism
• Crimea
• democracy
• economic sanctions
• liberalism
• Saddam Hussein
• Vladimir Putin
• Ronald Reagan
• Russia
• world order

Notes

English translation © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, from the Russian text “Novyi mirovoi poriadok,” Svobodnaia mysl', 2014, no. 2, pp. 132–36.Translated by Stephen D. Shenfield.Yulia Leonidovna Latynina is a journalist and a Candidate of Philosophical Sciences. Yulia writes for Novaia Gazeta and the Moscow Times, and is a host on the Ekho Moskvy radio station.

^* An allusion to a statement made in 1904 by tsarist interior minister Viacheslav Plehve: “To avert a revolution we need a small victorious war.”—Trans.]

^* He was elected prime minister in 1980 and became president in 1987.—Trans.