Valdai Club

A strategic vision of international relations is of great importance to Russia. After all, in the context of a global crisis, all global players are locked in a state of zugzwang and prefer to play a tactical waiting game: who will make the first mistake or exhaust their resources? Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin is already prepared, drawing on the philosophy of complexity, to outline the contours of a new, conciliar world order in which Russia and the BRICS countries could play a role as systemically important players, writes Alexander Shchipkov, political philosopher and rector of the Russian Orthodox University of St. John the Theologian.