Russia’s Role in Ensuring Collective Security: Lessons From the Past as a Historical Basis for Repelling Threats to the Present and Future

The article examines the influence of institutional factors on Russia’s implementation of its role in ensuring collective security in the conditions of two world wars. At the same time, the author emphasizes the importance of historical continuity to the best traditions of international cooperation in the formation and legal consolidation of collective security norms as an institutional basis for future development. Based on the method of historical analogy, it is concluded that it is necessary to consider historical values as an institutional basis for the implementation of the Russian Federation’s role in the formation of a modern model of collective security, defining new contours of the world order, taking into account the existing multipolarity. The uniqueness of Russia’s geostrategic position historically determines its role as the most important guarantor of the collective security of the countries of Europe and Asia in the conditions of the new reality of interaction and confrontation between states that differ according to the chosen models of development. However, the danger of the revival of the model of the dominance of Anglo-Saxon influence on the processes of international interaction in the realization of each country’s national interests is of particular concern, from the point of view of an attempt to revise the results of the Second World War. Proceeding from this thesis, the author points out the need to consolidate the institutional factors that determine, first of all, the historically determined inviolability of the results of the Second World War as a legal norm in the system of ensuring modern Russia guarantees of its national security. Particular attention is paid to the implementation of a number of conceptual provisions of the new edition of the National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation, defining not only new challenges, but also additional opportunities for Russia to realize its role in the system of ensuring collective security.

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