PRIMAKOV NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF WORLD ECONOMY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

The edition also provides an in-depth analysis of the current acute stage of arms control, primarily in the fi eld of strategic off ensive arms, problems of nuclear nonproliferation in light of increasing competition in the nuclear materials and technologies market, and the possibilities of conventional arms control in Europe in the context of NATO-Russia relations. [...] Russia has proposed reviving the P-5 format (a summit of the permanent members of the UN Security Council), yet its proposal will hardly revitalize the cooperation among the states entrusted with primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations. [...] The country’s foreign policy is almost certain to be considerably revised and adjusted in case the Democratic Party’s candidate is elected as the 46th President of the United States in November 2020, nevertheless, the general course of the United States’ politics towards the strengthening of the country amidst the confrontation with its competitors and rivals is likely to remain. [...] The United States and the Atlantic elites of Europe will THE WORLD OF THE 2020S AND RUSSIA 19 hardly succeed in their attempts, for the purpose of their consolidation, at reviving the spectre of communism, this time represented by China and linked to Russian authoritarianism. [...] This situation, in turn, causes concern among Western countries, mainly in the United States.4 The proliferation of nuclear technologies and materials aggravates the risks for the nuclear nonproliferation regime, especially given the fact that the technologies related to the production of weapons- grade nuclear materials and fuel for NPPs are largely the same.