Valdai Club

On January 21, 2016, the Valdai Discussion Club presented its annual report, titled "War and Peace in the 21st century. International stability and balance of the new type".

The year 2015 opened a new stage in the development of the international system. Despite the continuing erosion of the old institutions, for the first time in a long while we can see signs of emergence of something new amid the disintegration of the old. The world order, much-discussed since the late 1980s, has never been "built" by dint of anyone's conscientious efforts, but it is now starting to crop up from the reign of chaos. The contours are just beginning to take shape, but there are already grounds for reflections about the world's new structure in the upcoming decades.

Globalization is not being replaced by isolationism, although the integrated system is transforming, becoming less centralized, more fragmented and oriented towards regions. Not only are the closest interdependence and intense competition not mutually exclusive, they create an impartible symbiosis. Cooperation and mutual restraining go hand in hand.

A new balance is beginning to take shape based on the interaction between two groups of states: the extended West (the US and its partners) and the "Greater Eurasia". This is not a new bipolarity, but a new dialectic of diverging and coinciding interests. Should the tendency take root, new conditions for a more solid global unity will appear in the midst of an unending competition.

The research was conducted following the results of the discussions at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Club, which had been attended by political and public leaders, prominent experts from over 30 countries.

The Report was presented by Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club. He was joined by 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.

The working language of the event is Russian.

Venue:

Valdai Discussion Club in Moscow (Bolshaya Tatarskaya, 42)

12:00PM, 21 January 2016

January 28, 2016. Vienna: Presentation of the Valdai Club Report "War and Peace in the 21st Century. International Stability and Balance of the New Type"

February 9, 2016. London: Presentation of the Valdai Club Report "War and Peace in the 21st Century. International Stability and Balance of the New Type"

February 10, 2016. Paris:  Presentation of the Valdai Club Report "War and Peace in the 21st Century. International Stability and Balance of the New Type"

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Download Report WAR AND PEACE IN THE 21st CENTURY: International Stability and Balance of the New Type in English and in Russian (PDF)




Summary: Рresentation of a Report Entitled "War and Peace in the 21st century. International Stability and Balance of the New Type"




Image Gallery: Рresentation of a report entitled "War and Peace in the 21st century. International Stability and Balance of the New Type"





Mutual Understanding Between Broader West and Greater Eurasia. Presentation of the Valdai Club Report in Vienna



Image Gallery: Рresentation of a report entitled "War and Peace in the 21st century. International Stability and Balance of the New Type" in Vienna




European Union: Situation of Asymmetric Chaos. By Wolfgang Petritsch






War and Peace in the 21st Century. Presentation of the Valdai Club Report in London


Image Gallery: Valdai Club presents in London a report "War and peace in the 21st century. International stability and balance of the new type"




Challenges and Balances of the New World Order: Valdai Club Presents Annual Report in Paris


Image Gallery: Рresentation of a report entitled "War and Peace in the 21st century. International Stability and Balance of the New Type" in Paris




Warfare in the 21st Century. By Arnaud Kalika



Valdai Club Report - in Search of a New World Order. By Mary Dejevsky



Opportunities of Balance. By Andrey Bystritskiy



The Goal Is to Streamline Chaos and Rationalize Diversity. By Fyodor Lukyanov



How to Get Rid of "Technological Enslavement". By Andrey Ionin



Sanctions Wars Are Used As a Tool to Carve Up the World. By Andrey Bezrukov



Infographics: World Force Centers: Towards New Balance



Infographics: Current International Sanctions



Infographics: Cost of War