The Annual Report of the Valdai Discussion Club
The Annual Report of the Valdai Discussion Club
We are told incessantly that the changes unfolding today are without historical parallel – but since when, one might ask. How many years have elapsed since the world last witnessed shifts of a similar magnitude?
Could it be 40 years, taking us back to the moment when changes taking place in the Soviet Union created a pathway for ending the Cold War and the military and ideological confrontation between...
... Western countries. As for such a large and politically fragmented post-Soviet diaspora, it remains unclear whether this diaspora can become an accelerator or, on the contrary, will turn into a brake on the development of Russian-American relations.
A New World Order
Rahul Pandey:
The U.S.-Led Global Disorder: Opportunities for India, China and Russia
Many tactical interests of Moscow and Washington today largely coincide. Both parties are fighting against what they believe to be an international hegemony ...
... the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, which means that Russia’s capacity to influence some of the central dimensions of the future world order will be limited. On many practical matters, Moscow will be a deal-taker rather than a dealmaker. It will be forced ... ... most significant tasks for the new generation of Russia’s political leaders.
First published in the
Horizons
(Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development)
... existence of moral bankruptcy is the only constant in the world– not the principle of change.
Alienation 2.0
Aleksandr Dynkin:
World Order Transformation: Economy, Ideology, Technology
Where to begin? The blood-curdling genocide in the Gaza Strip [
2
],... ... Panama Canal represent a whole new level of disregard for and dismantlement of the principles that constitute the cornerstones of international relations. Do today’s trends uncover another arrogance of power, [
5
] contributing to collective delusion in ...
... security architecture, relying on existing institutions: the Union State, CSTO, EAEU, CIS, BRICS, SCO and ASEAN. Minsk has put forward an initiative to develop a Eurasian Charter for Diversity and Multipolarity—a strategic vision for a new system of international relations to replace the “rules-based” world order.
An important event of 2024 in this context is the expansion of the BRICS club (see
Figure 6
). Its combined economic power could potentially reach $67 trillion, surpassing the total GDP of the G7 countries.
Figure 6
. Economic potential ...
RIAC Working Paper No. 62 / 2022
RIAC Working Paper No. 62 / 2022
Practices and principles that underpin multilateralism are currently facing multiple challenges and major opposition, including one-sided rhetoric employed by leaders across the globe, a grave crisis of many multilateral organizations and regimes, both global and regional. Politicians are shifting the responsibility for the shortcomings of multilateralism onto one another, blaming their opponents for departing from legitimate multilateral...
... rather than pure ethanol as it is. Liberals hold on to the premise that states are well short of being stand-alone actors in international relations, as they are—to different extents—represented by various group interests being in complex interaction ... ... aromas of regional specifics, and the aftertaste of national biases and stereotypes.
Fyodor Lukyanov, Ivan Safranchuk:
Modern World Order: Structural Realities and Great Power Rivalries
For the last few decades, there have been repeated attempts to combine ...
... Russ.) URL:
https://russiancouncil.ru/analytics-and-comments/analytics/neizbezhnost-strannogo-mira/
(accessed 03.06.2021).
Kosolapov N.A. 2002. Globalizatsiya: ot miroporyadka k mezhdunarodno-politicheskoi organizatsii mira [Globalization: From the World Order to the International Political Organization of the World]. – Ocherki teorii i metodologii politicheskogo analiza mezhdunarodnykh otnoshenii [Essays on the Theory and Methodology of Political Analysis of International Relations]. Ed. by A.D. Bogaturov, N.A. Kosolapov, M.A. Khrustalev. Moscow: NOFMO. 390 p. (In Russ.)
Lukyanov F.A., Trenin D.V., Kortunov A.V., Sushentsov A.A., Suslov D.V., Silaev N.Yu., Murakhovskii V.I., Safranchuk I.A., Markedonov S....
... their allies against Syria on the 14th of April 2018 led to the conclusion that continuation of such actions would destabilize international relations. Negotiations on arms control, which previously were intensive, came to an end. This situation jeopardized ... ... precedes the eventual multi-polar transition. By and large, the Russian scientific community agrees with the thesis that the world order is in process of transformation from unipolar moment to the post-unipolar condition, but the terms to describe this ...
... being wrong, any mistake can become fatal for the weak.
These events return us to one of the basic questions of the science on international relations: What are the parameters of power enjoyed by modern government players? What makes some stronger and others ... ... consideration these nuances plus technological development and soft power indices.
Ivan Timofeev:
A New Anarchy? Scenarios for World Order Dynamics
However, universal power formulas have shortcomings. The first is that any global distribution of power will ...
