An international conference was held in Moscow on 1 July to discuss “Democracy and Meritocracy: Are two principles compatible?”
The conference was sponsored by the Council for Foreign and Defence Policies (CDFP), European Council on Foreign Relations, German Marshall Fund, Centre for Liberal Strategies 9Sofia), and Vienna’s Institute for Human Sciences, with support from the Gorchakov Foundation.
An international conference was held in Moscow on 1 July to discuss “Democracy and Meritocracy: Are two principles compatible?”
The conference was sponsored by the Council for Foreign and Defence Policies (CDFP), European Council on Foreign Relations, German Marshall Fund, Centre for Liberal Strategies 9Sofia), and Vienna’s Institute for Human Sciences, with support from the Gorchakov Foundation.
The conference was to discuss a focal issue of the dividing lines between national interests and the global agenda and their erosion which, given high uncertainty, hampers decision-making by the elites.
The conference was attended by RIAC members Leonid Drachevsky, Sergei Karaganov , Andrei Kortunov, Fedor Lukianov, Petr Stegniy, and a number of RIAC experts: Nadezhda Arbatova, Oksana Gaman-Golutvina, Yuri Rubinksy, and others.
Programme of the Conference (in russian).
Discussion materials (in russian): a paper by Ivan Krastev (Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and a fellow at Vienna’s Institute for Human Sciences): Rise and Fall of Democracy? Meritocracy?
