Valdai Club

Shri Deepak Bagla

Tang Bei

Lyubov Bisson

Wenli Bei

Maria Bazlutskaya

Yehuda Ben Meir

Elena Bogdanova

Helge Blakkisrud

Timofei Bordachev

Beatrice Bineva

Bulgaria

Master in Political Science at the Higher School of Economics

Materials

EU Migration Policy as a Political Instrument in Relations With Russia

The migration of Russian citizens to the European Union in the mid-2020s has ceased to be an exclusively socio-economic process and has acquired a distinctly political and strategic dimension. The movement of people has become a channel for the redistribution of human capital, technological expertise, and political loyalties, influencing labour markets, demographic dynamics, and security debates within EU Member States.

Decolonising Democracy in International Relations: Liberalism, the Global Order, and Post-colonial Sovereignty in the Global South

Modern democracy, as it has emerged within the liberal international order, still bears traces of its colonial legacy: it relies institutionally and conceptually on Western norms of recognition, political participation, and global leadership, writes Beatrice Petrova Bineva, Master in Political Science at the Higher School of Economics. The author is a participant of the Valdai – New Generation project.