Security Index Yearbook
2024-2025 by PIR&MGIMO Vol.1 Digital Edition
This handbook is a unique collection of analytical materials on the most burning issues of the global and regional agendas in the times of growing international tension and Russian approaches to them. This volume highlights the issues of global concern such as international terrorism, nuclear weapons and strategic arms control agenda, nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, new types of conventional weapons, space security, cyber diplomacy. In terms of regional security, it concentrates on Russia-China relations, Middle East, Russia-Iran relations, the assessment of BRICS prospects, new developments in the relations between Russia and African countries, security dialogue between Russia and the states of Latin America, to mention just a few. It also contains book reviews and the chronology of recent events in global and regional security.
Target Audience
Security Index Yearbook is designed above all for foreign expert community, decision makers, think tanks, business circles and specialists in Russian studies, as well as those who just want to get a fresh look at the Russian foreign and defense policy, Russia’s activities on global arena and threats perception. Security Index Yearbook is a contribution to a better understanding of global developments and what stand Russia takes on them.
Young IR specialists and students
Today, a lack of globally focused publications with analytical materials written by Russian international relations experts is evident. It has become more challenging for the Russian academic community to deliver its views on topical issues of global security to a worldwide audience. However, such analysis is more in demand than ever. Russia remains an essential part of the international community and plays a significant role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals; it is one of the critical actors in the global arena, holding the world back from sliding into chaos. Wars on narratives, which regrettably have been emerging in academia these days, do not contribute in any way to finding an efficient response to global challenges.
Dr. Anatoly Torkunov,
Rector of MGIMO University
This handbook is a unique analytical endeavor coming out at a remarkable time. On the one hand, the Western part of the world is hell-bent on demonizing or keeping quiet about Russia’s foreign, defense and security policies, trying to portray it as the bête noire of international relations, and muffling the voices of impartial Russian experts in the worst traditions of suppressing dissent. On the other hand, ironically, the demand for informed discussions of international security issues related to Russia and its policies runs as high as ever. People in the West, and particularly across the large non-Western communities that make up the Global Majority, are really keen to understand Russia’s line of reasoning, its interests and perception of security.
Dr. Vladimir Orlov,
PIR Center Founding Director,
Professor at MGIMO University,
Editor-in-Chief
Published by MGIMO University and PIR Center Consortium in 2024 under the auspices of the Priority-2030 Strategic Academic Leadership Program.
