By Vestnik Kavkaza
In preparation for the celebration of the 70th anniversary of Victory, the Yalta conference of the leaders of the anti-Hitler coalition during the Second World War, which established the post-war world order, is often remembered today. Since the meeting of the leaders of the USSR, the US and the UK in the Livadian Palace, much has changed and the Valdai discussion club has prepared a report 'World Order: New Rules or a Game without Rules'.
Speaking at the presentation of the report, Vice-Rector of the MGIMO (University) of the MFA of Russia, Artem Malgin, said that we entered into the new world order in the early 1990s with old post-war institutions and decided that they could be upgraded easily.
"There was a reform of the UN, which the general public has not noticed ... Generally speaking, the institutions that were modernized in the economic sphere were invented in the western part of the world ... At the regional level, some Western institutions were opened somewhere, and they became universal - like the Council of Europe and communities, eager for pan-Europeanism, later - the European Union. Somewhere, however, there was a different process, as in the Asia-Pacific region. At the global level, by slightly modernizing common institutions, by opening Western ones, the world community has created palliatives."
Malgin described the "G8", which includes the same UK, Germany, Italy, Canada, Russia, the USA, France and Japan, but does not include players such as China and India, as palliative. Russia has been excluded from the G8 because of the Crimean events. "The mechanism did not work
, and without Russia it did not work at all. This mechanism is the old, small West, which in the present circumstances cannot be considered as global," Artem Malgin says.
He called the “G20” an interesting structure, which was invented ad-hoc in the last crisis that arose. "However, over the years, coming to this structure from the point of system of formalization - and formalization here is not a bad word, on the contrary, it is a word that means the involvement of order and stability in the work - has failed, because quantitatively, it is small. On the other hand, on the example of this semi-defunct "8", the “20” found infrastructure for itself rather quickly," Malgin notes.
According to him, "when we speak of multilateral institutions in today’s world, we are talking about leadership. And leadership is not entering the world stage with a nuclear club – as you entered, so you will return, because it is a mechanism that you can apply only one time.
A leader needs infrastructure, channels for the implementation of this leadership. So when we talk about multilateral institutions, we are primarily talking about the leadership, paradoxically, of nation-states. Because all of these structures, no matter how formal they may be at first glance, these structures represent national states."
