Andrei A Sushentsov
Biographic Data
| ID | 6701024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrei A Sushentsov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrei A |
| FAMILY NAME | Sushentsov |
| SIGNATURE | SUSHENTSOV A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Moscow State Institute of International Relations |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2076-7332 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Academic and Professional Diplomatic Training in a Complex World
The article compares two broad approaches to diplomatic training: professional and academic. The U.S., India, and Germany prioritize professional skills, while Russia and China prioritize history, languages, and regional expertise, with Brazil somewhere in the middle
Warfare in a New Epoch
Comparing the Korean War (1950-1953) and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, the authors investigate the structural impact of these confrontations on the system of international relations. Similarities in goals, objectives, means of warfare (partly), and the circumstances of the great-power confrontation make it possible to extrapolate the lessons of the Korean War for studying the current conflict in Ukraine, taking into account contemporary change…
The Intervention That Originated the Post-Cold War Order
The article retraces how the Soviet Union and the United States tried to establish a partnership in the wake of Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The international community strongly condemned the invasion, and the two superpowers chose to cooperate in finding a solution to the crisis. The Soviet leadership was persistent in searching for a peaceful settlement. But the Bush administration, seeking to lay the grounds for U.S. dominance in a “new wor…
The Distributed World
Nobody has any doubts that what is happening now in Ukraine isnot simply a regional conflict but a test for the current international hierarchy
Strategic Foundations of the Ukraine Crisis
Conceptualizing the Crisis
Strategy of Sentimentality in EU Foreign Policy
The Ukraine crisis has set in motion the processes of a global divide between the West and the Non-West. In Europe, the new watershed means a military-political confrontation between Russia and NATO, following the patterns of the deep European security crisis of the 1970s and 1980s, when the parties were close to a nuclear war, but one never took place. Outside the European continent, the non-West is now actively taking stock of its relations wit…
The “Difficult Age” of Eastern Europe and the Case of Belarus
Poland and Lithuania are young and strategically inexperienced countries that do not fully understand the consequences of their actions.Their goal is to undermine Belarus internally, to deprive it of its status of agency
Russia in the Digital World
Technology has become one of the most important spheres in the race for power in the 21st century. The two main technology ecosystems—the American and the Chinese—have clearly taken shape by the beginning of the third decade of this century. A dilemma for Russia in this regard is whether to join one of the existing ecosystems or develop one of its own. The paper critically examines the impact of contemporary trends in the digital domain on intern…
International studies in an unpredictable world
We revisit and empirically evaluate crucial yet under-examined arguments articulated in “God Gave Physics the Easy Problems” (2000), the authors of which emphasized that, in International Relations (IR) predictions, predominant nomothetic approaches should be supplemented with concrete scenario thinking. We test whether the IR predictive toolkit is in fact dominated by nomothetic generalizations and, more broadly, map the methodological profile o…
Russia’s Foreign Policy and Strategic Culture
This article contains a talk between Andrey Sushentsov, head of the MGIMO University Institute for International Studies and Professor William Wohlforth, a leading American international relations theorist and one of the founders of neoclassical realism. Having received his PhD in Yale, Wohlforth began his career as a specialist on Russia. One of his key works is the study of the driving forces behind the foreign policy of early USSR. His studies…
Protracted Conflicts in Afghanistan and Chechnya
Since the early 1980s, American scholarly and analytical literature has discussed the effectiveness of Soviet, and subsequently Russian, management of low-intensity conflicts. Though both the Soviet and Russian experience has been examined from many perspectives, including the military, economic, social and political, the American academic community does not tend to deem such an approach relevant and useful in terms of understanding US foreign po…
The Caucasus in Russian foreign policy strategy
The Caucasus has always been a formative region for Russian foreign policy-making. While the North Caucasus has retained its position as Russia’s most fragile and politically instable region, the South Caucasus provided the most pressing security challenges shaping Russian foreign policy since the early nineteenth century. In this article, we argue that the Caucasus comprises a distinct environment that exposes the underlying features of the Russ…
S – Strategy
The crumbling of the world order-a metaphor central to the 2018 Valdai Club report-continues. Observers ever more often find it difficult to explain the logic of what is happening or guess which way the wind of change will blow. Amid the mounting chaos, actions by individual states become increasingly important. The focus of attention switches from the level of system to the level of its individual participants, i.e. specific countries
The tragedy of US–Russian relations
Instruments of Russian political strategy in Eastern Europe
War of the Future
Russia is contemplating future war based on its current perception of allies and adversaries, largely disregarding how the world may change
The Nature of the Modern Crisis in U.S.-Russia Relations
The current state of U.S.-Russia relations is often compared with that of the Cold War. However, contradictions today between Moscow and Washington do not determine the dynamics of modern international relations. The confrontation between these two countries embraces all spheres (informational, economic, and political), resulting in a highly-dependent situation where conflict impacts all areas of cooperation. Relations between Russia and the Unit…
Radicalization of Russians in Ukraine
The article examines different types of macropolitical identities in Ukraine and their interaction in establishing political order in the country. The authors argue that political institutional design was unfavourable to the Russian diaspora in eastern and southern regions. It hindered stable development of post-Soviet identity between Russians in the country. But during the Euromaidan protests, the Russians reacted to unpleasant political situat…
The tragedy of US–Russian relations
Russia in the Digital World
Technology has become one of the most important spheres in the race for power in the 21st century. The two main technology ecosystems—the American and the Chinese—have clearly taken shape by the beginning of the third decade of this century. A dilemma for Russia in this regard is whether to join one of the existing ecosystems or develop one of its own. The paper critically examines the impact of contemporary trends in the digital domain on intern…
Conceptualizing the Crisis
Strategy of Sentimentality in EU Foreign Policy
The Ukraine crisis has set in motion the processes of a global divide between the West and the Non-West. In Europe, the new watershed means a military-political confrontation between Russia and NATO, following the patterns of the deep European security crisis of the 1970s and 1980s, when the parties were close to a nuclear war, but one never took place. Outside the European continent, the non-West is now actively taking stock of its relations wit…
The “Difficult Age” of Eastern Europe and the Case of Belarus
Poland and Lithuania are young and strategically inexperienced countries that do not fully understand the consequences of their actions.Their goal is to undermine Belarus internally, to deprive it of its status of agency
International studies in an unpredictable world
We revisit and empirically evaluate crucial yet under-examined arguments articulated in “God Gave Physics the Easy Problems” (2000), the authors of which emphasized that, in International Relations (IR) predictions, predominant nomothetic approaches should be supplemented with concrete scenario thinking. We test whether the IR predictive toolkit is in fact dominated by nomothetic generalizations and, more broadly, map the methodological profile o…
War of the Future
Russia is contemplating future war based on its current perception of allies and adversaries, largely disregarding how the world may change
Radicalization of Russians in Ukraine
The article examines different types of macropolitical identities in Ukraine and their interaction in establishing political order in the country. The authors argue that political institutional design was unfavourable to the Russian diaspora in eastern and southern regions. It hindered stable development of post-Soviet identity between Russians in the country. But during the Euromaidan protests, the Russians reacted to unpleasant political situat…
The Nature of the Modern Crisis in U.S.-Russia Relations
The current state of U.S.-Russia relations is often compared with that of the Cold War. However, contradictions today between Moscow and Washington do not determine the dynamics of modern international relations. The confrontation between these two countries embraces all spheres (informational, economic, and political), resulting in a highly-dependent situation where conflict impacts all areas of cooperation. Relations between Russia and the Unit…
Instruments of Russian political strategy in Eastern Europe
War of the Future
Russia is contemplating future war based on its current perception of allies and adversaries, largely disregarding how the world may change
Russia’s Foreign Policy and Strategic Culture
This article contains a talk between Andrey Sushentsov, head of the MGIMO University Institute for International Studies and Professor William Wohlforth, a leading American international relations theorist and one of the founders of neoclassical realism. Having received his PhD in Yale, Wohlforth began his career as a specialist on Russia. One of his key works is the study of the driving forces behind the foreign policy of early USSR. His studies…
Protracted Conflicts in Afghanistan and Chechnya
Since the early 1980s, American scholarly and analytical literature has discussed the effectiveness of Soviet, and subsequently Russian, management of low-intensity conflicts. Though both the Soviet and Russian experience has been examined from many perspectives, including the military, economic, social and political, the American academic community does not tend to deem such an approach relevant and useful in terms of understanding US foreign po…
The Caucasus in Russian foreign policy strategy
The Caucasus has always been a formative region for Russian foreign policy-making. While the North Caucasus has retained its position as Russia’s most fragile and politically instable region, the South Caucasus provided the most pressing security challenges shaping Russian foreign policy since the early nineteenth century. In this article, we argue that the Caucasus comprises a distinct environment that exposes the underlying features of the Russ…
S – Strategy
The crumbling of the world order-a metaphor central to the 2018 Valdai Club report-continues. Observers ever more often find it difficult to explain the logic of what is happening or guess which way the wind of change will blow. Amid the mounting chaos, actions by individual states become increasingly important. The focus of attention switches from the level of system to the level of its individual participants, i.e. specific countries
The tragedy of US–Russian relations
The “Difficult Age” of Eastern Europe and the Case of Belarus
Poland and Lithuania are young and strategically inexperienced countries that do not fully understand the consequences of their actions.Their goal is to undermine Belarus internally, to deprive it of its status of agency
Russia in the Digital World
Technology has become one of the most important spheres in the race for power in the 21st century. The two main technology ecosystems—the American and the Chinese—have clearly taken shape by the beginning of the third decade of this century. A dilemma for Russia in this regard is whether to join one of the existing ecosystems or develop one of its own. The paper critically examines the impact of contemporary trends in the digital domain on intern…
International studies in an unpredictable world
We revisit and empirically evaluate crucial yet under-examined arguments articulated in “God Gave Physics the Easy Problems” (2000), the authors of which emphasized that, in International Relations (IR) predictions, predominant nomothetic approaches should be supplemented with concrete scenario thinking. We test whether the IR predictive toolkit is in fact dominated by nomothetic generalizations and, more broadly, map the methodological profile o…
Strategic Foundations of the Ukraine Crisis
Conceptualizing the Crisis
Strategy of Sentimentality in EU Foreign Policy
The Ukraine crisis has set in motion the processes of a global divide between the West and the Non-West. In Europe, the new watershed means a military-political confrontation between Russia and NATO, following the patterns of the deep European security crisis of the 1970s and 1980s, when the parties were close to a nuclear war, but one never took place. Outside the European continent, the non-West is now actively taking stock of its relations wit…
The Distributed World
Nobody has any doubts that what is happening now in Ukraine isnot simply a regional conflict but a test for the current international hierarchy
Warfare in a New Epoch
Comparing the Korean War (1950-1953) and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, the authors investigate the structural impact of these confrontations on the system of international relations. Similarities in goals, objectives, means of warfare (partly), and the circumstances of the great-power confrontation make it possible to extrapolate the lessons of the Korean War for studying the current conflict in Ukraine, taking into account contemporary change…
The Intervention That Originated the Post-Cold War Order
The article retraces how the Soviet Union and the United States tried to establish a partnership in the wake of Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The international community strongly condemned the invasion, and the two superpowers chose to cooperate in finding a solution to the crisis. The Soviet leadership was persistent in searching for a peaceful settlement. But the Bush administration, seeking to lay the grounds for U.S. dominance in a “new wor…
Academic and Professional Diplomatic Training in a Complex World
The article compares two broad approaches to diplomatic training: professional and academic. The U.S., India, and Germany prioritize professional skills, while Russia and China prioritize history, languages, and regional expertise, with Brazil somewhere in the middle
Political science (17 works) · Economics (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies (8 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (8 works) · Development economics (7 works) · Law (6 works)