The Cultural-Civilisational Factor in Greater Eurasia

... will remain a region of peace in the future as well, writes Timofei Bordachev , Programme Director of the Valdai Club. International politics and the cultures of peoples interact on three principal planes. First , at the highest level, the foreign policy cultures of states interact with one another—characteristic sets of beliefs, practices, and expectations that shape the ability of their bearers “to formulate assumptions about the limits of the possible and act on that basis”, and that also determine ...