Category: International Diplomat

As António Guterres confirms his attendance at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, speculation abounds regarding what this move signals for both the United Nations and the wider geopolitical landscape. The summit, scheduled for October 22-24, brings together the world’s leading emerging economies — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — at a time when Russia is facing escalating global isolation due to its war in Ukraine. Guterres’ presence, however, could inadvertently serve as a tool for Moscow,…

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The Multipolar World: Fragmentation of International Relations International relations are nowadays characterised by major changes that started at the end of the 80s with the fall of the Berlin Wall.  Indeed, the end of the cold war was marked by the dislocation of the two main political blocks, namely the Soviet Union and the Western World. Such a dislocation resulted in the marginalization of the post-war multilateral system embodied in the United Nations, and the standstill of the multilateral…

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