Artyom Lukin

Associate Professor, School of Regional and International Studies, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok

Artyom Lukin is an associate professor at the School of Regional and International Studies of Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok. His research interests include Russia-China relations, Russia-North Korea relations, Russia-Japan relations and Russia-South Korea relations. He also works on strategic security in Northeast Asia and the Asia-Pacific, the Russian Far East, and Russia and the geopolitics of climate change.

People pass by portraits of Chinese President Xi Jinping and late Chinese chairman Mao Zedong, in Shanghai, China, 31 August 2022. (Aly Song/Reuters)
Politics

[State of our world] From Three Worlds to Four: Mao’s revised theory of an emerging global order?

By Artyom Lukin 12 Sep 2022
Russian academic Artyom Lukin revisits Mao’s Three Worlds Theory to explain that while the world looks to be on the cusp of great change, the paradigms of the past can still inform the future. Much will depend on the “fourth world” of Russia and other perceived US adversaries who are drawing closer to China. This is the third in a series of four articles contemplating a changing world order.
A newsagent picks up magazines next to a mural by Italian urban artist Salvatore Benintende aka "TV BOY" depicting a girl painting a peace symbol on an Ukraine's flag, reading "Hope" in Barcelona, Spain, on 30 April 2022. (Pau Barrena/AFP)
Politics

Russian academic: Whose ideology will rule an emerging 21st century world?

By Artyom Lukin 12 May 2022
Amid a changing global order, Russian academic Artyom Lukin analyses the different ideologies of the US, China and Russia and explains why it would be hasty to lump Russia and China in one camp or to dismiss the similarities between the US and Russia. In the end, the ideology that rules the emerging new world may not even be that of any of the three countries.