Tag: Valdai Discussion Club

Russia/Iran – Russia and Iran: New Mechanisms for Regional Security and Cooperation (Valdai Discussion Club)

Andrei Baklanov Iran respects the "inclusive" approach toward the formation of a circle of participants in the future system of a new regional order, including...

Iran/Russia/Middle East – Will Iran Accept Russia’s Ideas for a Middle East Regional Security Process? (Valdai Discussion Club)

Hanna Notte , Hamidreza Azizi At first sight, Russia and Iran seem to have compatible – or even similar – approaches to the JCPOA and regional security....

The Future Talks to the Past: BRICS Countries’ Strategies Towards the European Union (Valdai Discussion Club)

Alexandra Arkhangelskaya , Timofei Bordachev , Bruno Marriotto Jubran , Nivedita Kapoor , Vasily Kashin , Alexei Kupriyanov , Dmitry Razumovsky , Dmitry Suslov The European Union and BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are formally similar...

(Digital Environment) The Digital Environment as a Global Commons (Valdai Discussion Club)

One of the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic was a sharp increase of the digital environment’s importance in social and political activities. Distance work...

(Global Governance) Double Standards Are Not Enough: The Impossibility of Morality in a Multipolar World (Valdai Discussion Club)

Timofei Bordachev The state of modern international politics raises fundamental questions with respect to its assessment in theoretical terms. The main feature of the current...

(Russia/Europe) Why Russia-EU Relations Remain Stable Against All Odds (Valdai Discussion Club)

Ivan Timofeev https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/russia-eu-stable-relations/

(USA) Biden’s ’Climate Manifesto’: Global Carbon Footprint Games (Valdai Discussion Club)

Valentin Uvarov https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/biden-s-climate-manifesto-global-carbon-footprint-/

(Wikipedia) Wikipedia 20 Years On: Intellectual Snobbery vs the Right to Know (Oleg Barabanov, Valdai Discussion Club)

It is clear that Wikipedia has fulfilled its task of responding to the global public demand for free information and free knowledge. In doing so, it has made a tangible contribution to the...

(Nagorno-Karabakh/Russia) Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Delayed Resolution and Russia’s Interests (Sergey Markedonov, Valdai Discussion Club)

It is extremely important for Moscow to navigate between Scylla and Charybdis, maintaining a balance in relations with Armenia and Azerbaijan as well as with Turkey and Iran, and with partners...

(Pandemic/Liberal International Order) The Impact of COVID-19 and Global Perceptions of US Leadership and International Order (Alexander Cooley, Valdai Discussion Club)

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected global perceptions about the transformation of the liberal international order? Over the past year, we have seen a...

ARAB WORLD – ‘Atomised’ Society and Politics in the Arab World (Nourhan ElSheikh, Valdai Discussion Club)

As we’ve grown into an atomised world, something has changed within us. In creating a system for individuals and not for the community, we...

RUSSIA – Russia and Its Near Abroad (Timofei Bordachev, Valdai Discussion Club)

Russia, which seeks to limit the scale of its responsibility, intervenes only when its policy is guaranteed to yield a positive result for Russian interests, writes Valdai Club Programme...

WORLD – Quo Vadis? (Andrey Bystritskiy, Valdai Discussion Club)

We are faced with the threat of a kind of “war of all against all”, a global, world civil war, a multidimensional matrix of...

RUSSIA – Russia-2020: Summing Up the Track-Record (Yaroslav Lissovolik, Valdai Discussion Club)

The key drivers affecting Russia’s economic performance in the near term will be the pace of global economic recovery and the concomitant growth in...

EASTERN EUROPE/BELARUS – The ‘Difficult Age’ of Eastern Europe and the Case of Belarus (Andrey Sushentsov, Valdai Discussion Club)

Poland and Lithuania are young and strategically inexperienced countries that do not fully understand the consequences of their actions. Their goal is to undermine Belarus internally, to deprive it of its...