The Geostrategic Imperatives of Russia's Participation in International Conflicts

Salim Reza

Abstract

In a world long dominated by unipolar Western hegemony, Russia has emerged as a steadfast champion of multipolarity, leveraging its historical wisdom and strategic foresight to reassert sovereign balance in global affairs. This article presents a compelling, evidence-based reassessment of Russia’s participation in key international conflicts Georgia, Syria, and Ukraine not as acts of aggression, but as sovereign countermeasures against three decades of NATO encroachment, regime-change interventions, and coercive economic statecraft. Drawing on newly declassified diplomatic transcripts, including verbatim assurances by U.S. and German officials that NATO Would Not Expand One Inch Eastward. This analysis exposes a foundational breach of post-Cold War trust that catalyzed Moscow’s strategic recalibration. Far from isolation, Russia has forged a resilient non-Western coalition, deepening integration via the expanded BRICS+ which now covering 46% of the world’s population, launching the world’s first multipolar payment corridor, for example SPFS-SPFS-CIPS interlink, and brokering landmark grain and energy deals that bypass Western chokepoints. Its military campaigns have proven instrumental in preventing terrorist spillover, preserving critical warm-water access in Tartus and Sevastopol, shielding the Global South from dollar-based coercion. By synthesizing Defensive Realism with Constructivist narratives of civilizational identity, this article reframes Russia’s geostrategy as a rational, historically grounded doctrine-rooted in survival, sovereignty, and the democratic right of nations to choose their own security architecture. As the West’s coercive unipolarity frays, Russia’s model offers an alternative: a world ordered not by diktat, but by equilibrium. "DEDICATED TO THE ALL SOLDIERS WHO WILL DIE TO THE UPCOMING GREAT WAR"

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Corresponding Author

Salim Reza, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Russia.

Citation

Reza, S. (2025). The Geostrategic Imperatives of Russia's Participation in International Conflicts. Econ Dev Glob Mark, 1(1), 01–11.