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Geopolitics & Empire

Artyom Lukin: US-China Bipolarity, Russia as 2nd Tier Power, & Era of Closed Borders

Geopolitics & Empire

Geopolitics & Empire

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4.2 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

IR scholar Artyom Lukin talks about Climate Change in Russia and how the decline of American hegemony has become a moot point as the real question is what will replace it. He believes we are entering a prolonged period of US-China bipolarity with Russia as a second tier power, and the potential for a multipolar world down the road. The difficulty in analyzing Beijing is that China is completely non-transparent to outside observers, a “black box”. No one, including the Russians, really understands what China wants. He also discusses why he and others think the world has entered an era of isolationism, closed borders, and restricted travel triggered by the geopolitics of intensifying great-power rivalry. He also gives his thoughts on Vladimir Putin, North Korea, and what the near-future portends for the United States (e.g. civil war?).

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Show Notes

Can Russia become China’s strategic mercenary? https://www.9dashline.com/article/can-russia-become-chinas-strategic-mercenary

Era of isolationism is coming to the world https://www.rt.com/op-ed/522863-era-isolationism-borders-covid

The end of civil wars? https://www.rt.com/op-ed/511561-end-of-civil-wars

America needs to create a new enemy. Anti-China hostility is only thing that unites Reps & Dems https://www.rt.com/op-ed/506886-regain-unity-america-enemy-china

The Russia–China entente and its future https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342157695_The_Russia-China_entente_and_its_future

Websites

Twitter https://twitter.com/ArtyomLukin

ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Artyom-Lukin

RT Op-Eds https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/artyom-lukin

About Artyom Lukin

Artyom Lukin is deputy director for research at the School of Regional and International Studies, Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok, Russia). He is also associate professor of International Relations there.

Lukin earned his PhD in Political Science from Far Eastern State University in 2002.

Apart from his academic career, he worked as a public relations officer in the Vladivostok City Administration (1998-2002) and at the Russian Far East’s biggest energy utility company Dalenergo (2002-2007).

Lukin has authored numerous chapters, papers and commentaries, in Russian and English, on Asia-Pacific international politics and Russia’s engagement with Asia. His latest book (co-authored with Rens Lee) is Russia’s Far East: New Dynamics in Asia Pacific and Beyond (2015).

Artyom’s research interests include international relations and security in the Asia-Pacific and Northeast Asia; Russian foreign policy; Russia’s engagement with the Asia-Pacific; social, political and economic processes in the Russian Far East.

Lukin has authored and co-authored multiple scholarly publications in Russian and English. He has been involved in numerous research and publication projects both in Russia and abroad. Artyom Lukin is an expert with Russian International Affairs Council. He is a regular commentator for Russian and international news media.

*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Geopolitics and Empire is joined by Artium Lukin, who is an IR scholar, associate professor and deputy director for research at the School of Regional and International Studies at Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok.

0:13.0

He's one of my top Russian experts to follow on Twitter. Thank you for joining the podcast, Artiom. How are things way out there in the Far East?

0:36.3

Well, things are not very good, but not very bad either. I think it's pretty much like everywhere else in the world.

0:38.3

And this summer in Ludwistok has been remarkable

0:45.3

because of the weather.

0:48.3

Actually, we had a few weeks of extremely hot weather which people, which the people here had never experienced.

1:03.6

So I think this is something which makes people in Russia or in the Russian forest as well realize

1:15.9

that climate change is for real.

1:19.4

So even though you introduced me as an international relations scholar, which I am for sure, but lately I have been interested

1:34.1

more and more in climate change. So maybe I will be transiting into the area which I myself call as the geopolitics of climate change.

1:51.2

This is a subfield of international relations which does not yet exist, but I think it will,

2:05.6

it will, you know, it will become a new field of international relations studies and political science in general

2:16.6

pretty soon.

2:20.0

So, yeah, again, and even today, even though it's one of the last days of summer in Ladovostok,

2:30.1

and towards the end of summer, we tend to have cooler weather, but still it's quite hot, quite humid.

2:42.9

So, yeah, I think it's, apart from the COVID, it's one of the main impressions of this year,

2:55.6

here in Wadivostok and in the Russian priest.

2:57.6

And you know that not in Ladovastok, not in the Russian forest,

3:01.6

but in eastern Siberia, we have had huge wildfires in the Republic of Yakutia.

3:13.3

Fortunately, the wildfires have been put out already, but they were raging for like a month or even more.

3:27.8

So that's another alarming sign that climate change is real and it's already impacting

3:37.6

Russia.

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