Valdai Club

In general, the most important issue in the process of forming a new world order is the maintenance and strengthening of mutual trust. Without it, no issues can be resolved and nothing can be done reliably. Mutual trust can develop only in interaction, in discussions, in conversations and negotiations. In general, the new world order means a new mutual trust, writes Valdai Club Chairman Andrey Bystritskiy.

The fact that humanity has entered a new stage of its development does not need proof. This concerns the whole world, and hence each of its regions, particularly the Middle East, which has a chance to find a new destiny and a new role in the emerging world order.

A correct system of coordinates, a system of terms is needed, which — when discussing what is happening in the world — we will understand it approximately the same way, writes Valdai Club Chairman Andrey Bystritskiy.

It is difficult to predict the future; it is even more difficult to understand the present, but we clearly understand that the world is not just on the verge of radical changes; it has already witnessed them, and Asia has a front-row seat.

Our time is very interesting, but unfortunately, it is also very sorrowful. The keyword to describe the contemporary situation is autarky, the ability of a country to live relying on its own resources.

We are used to different acronyms. BLM, GOP, COP and so on. They all make sense, they allow us to save time, and turn out to be symbols which represent very sensitive and important processes. But it looks like it’s time to introduce a new acronym. We can call it NHC in English – “New Humanitarian Catastrophe” or NHD if you use the word Disaster.

The tragic cataclysms that Russia has lived through in the 20th and 21st centuries were largely, and not least of all, due to the complex and dramatic history of Russian cities’ development. The current situation stands apart in that, perhaps for the first time in Russian history, the forces of urban civilisation are, in the worst case, equal, or possibly even exceed the forces and capabilities of its opponents, writes Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club.

All human progress seems to be aimed at making our lives easier, writes Valdai Club Chairman Andrey Bystritskiy. Of course, we managed to achieve certain successes in this area. But how stable are they? What are the most important, most dangerous challenges for all of us on this globe?

The global role of the West has drastically changed. From world leadership and world domination (regardless of the moral or political assessment of this), the West has moved, at best, to active defence, to defend what it considers to be its own, writes Valdai Club Chairman Andrey Bystritskiy.

We have moved into the zone of a new confrontation, and so far, we cannot even clearly define its boundaries. It seems that the new confrontation is primarily associated with an understanding of the future and the role of people in its creation, writes Valdai Club Chairman Andrey Bystritskiy. The article is published as part of the Valdai Club’s Think Tank project, continuing the collaboration between Valdai and the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy.