Valdai Club

Russia's pivot to the East: "U-turn" from Europe or a path to the creation of great Eurasian Atlantic-Pacific power?

Venue: Valdai Discussion Club Conference Hall
June 2, 2016, 12:00 pm.


On June 2, 2016, the Valdai Discussion Club will present its new report titled "Toward the Great Ocean: Turn to the East. Preliminary Results and New Objectives".

For Russia the choice in favor of only Europe or Asia is not just unprofitable, but potentially dangerous, because Russia, remaining the country of the European civilization, is moving in the new world to a natural status of the great Eurasian Atlantic-Pacific power.

Therefore, the turn means not a "reversal" from Europe, but a pragmatic orientation to new opportunities, the adequate desire to fit with the modern world.

Main directions and dimensions of such turn refer to the establishment of new internal conditions (organizational and legal) for the accelerated development of Siberia and the Far East, qualitative strengthening of the Russian presence in the Asia-Pacific region, and the gradual build-up of trade, economic and political ties with Asian countries, formation of the new Eurasian space for common development.


Report: Toward the Great Ocean: Turn to the East. Preliminary Results and New Objectives

During the presentation authors of the report will tell how profound and successful could be this Russia’s turn, what are specific areas, benefits and costs.

Speakers:


Sergei Karaganov - Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University–Higher School of Economics; Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy.

Alexander Lukin - Director, Center for East Asian and SCO Studies, MGIMO, Head of International Relations Department of the National Research University Higher School of Economics.

Timofei Bordachev - Programme Director (Eurasian programme), Valdai Club Foundation, Director of Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) in the School of World Economics and International Affairs of the National Research University – Higher School of Economics (HSE).



Moderator:

Fyodor Lukyanov - Research Director of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club, Editor-in-Chief of the Russia in Global Affairs journal.

Working language - Russian.

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