Valdai Club

Modern Tanzania is oriented towards pragmatism. This means keeping an equitable distance from all the ideological camps to maintain mutually beneficial cooperation. This idea is well conveyed in a Swahili saying, Biashara haigomvi, meaning “whoever wants to do business will not quarrel with anyone.” In the new millennium, Dodoma’s quest for funding opportunities has encouraged it to pursue a foreign policy that would be open to exploring a large spectrum of partnerships.

The confrontation between the world’s leading economies in the high-tech sector has become a sort of proxy war of this new age. We are witnessing a standoff on the markets for chips, 5G technology and artificial intelligence as a modern-day reincarnation of traditional great power rivalry and competition to maintain and expand their influence along their borders and across the world.

The National Security Strategy (NSS) is a fundamental document of the US grand strategy. It outlines the current US administration’s strategic vision of national interests, challenges and threats, the goals of state policy in the world and methods and instrumentsarticle for achieving them.

The era of technoeconomic blocs is coming, which means that high technology is moving into the geopolitical plane and taking on a strategic dimension. Technological independence and security are becoming critical for the main global politics players, and the EU is no exception.

Topping the agenda of the 2017 BRICS Summit was Chinese President Xi Jinping’s newly introduced concept of BRICS+ aimed at expanding partnerships within the group of emerging markets and establishing South-South cooperation.


The crucial challenge for Russia, which has strong competencies in this area, is to maintain its lead. Those who manage to stay on the podium will be rewarded for their efforts through military- industrial cooperation, will develop their engineering capabilities and aligned scientific areas, and will gain firm guarantees of national security.

Understanding of the dollar’s world role is dominated by the ideas of ‘dollar hegemony’ and ‘US hegemony’. In this paper, based on their extensive past work, Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson reveal how these ideas are ideologies, not theories.

Why are some countries dealing with the COVID19 pandemic much better than others? The question is deceptively simple, yet the answers are highly contested. The difficulties arise from a misleading polarisation between allegedly ‘authoritarian’ and ‘liberal’ strategies.

The first thing of note is a higher level of international and interstate contacts. Critical decisions in the area of global politics or economics are increasingly often taken by national leaders at their meetings, rather than in the wake of protracted talks between foreign ministry delegations.

It became obvious that the China’s economy entered a critical stage of its development. It needed to integrate into new reality, diversify its economic growth sources, adopt structural reforms, as well as fi nd new instruments and mechanisms of their implementation in order to transform into a higher-value knowledge and technology-based economy.