Valdai Club

The 21st Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club

Sochi, Russia

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The 21st Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club was held on November 4–7, 2024 in Sochi, at the Polyana 1389 hotel complex. The name of the event was “Lasting Peace on What Basis? Common Security and Equal Opportunities for Development in the 21st Century”.

Working languages: Russian, English.

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Materials

Global Alternatives 2024

The Dollar System: The World’s Most Powerful Inequality Producing Machine

The dollar system requires the lifting of capital controls to free capital flows which transfer of even more wealth from World Majority countries to the core capitalist countries as the rich transfer wealth to evade taxes at home and to participate in the speculative activity that abounds in the dollar denominated international financial system. The system has diverted investment from production to speculation, weakening development efforts, writes Radhika Desai.

Global Alternatives 2024

AI and the Regulation Question

If machines continue to develop awareness, conscience, perception, feelings, the ability to act independently and make ethical decisions and other human characteristics that give them a certain humanoid identity, the question arises how societies and constitutional systems will treat them. Will it get some kind of legal status?

Just Transition: How Can We Ensure Low-Carbon Development for the Benefit of the Entire Planet?

Current efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are not producing the desired results. Every year, the world breaks records for investments in renewable energy, sales of electric vehicles, and the number of ambitious statements about the imminent achievement of carbon neutrality. Meanwhile, emissions continue to grow. In 2023, they once again reached a historical maximum, and there is no possibility to reduce them by 2030. The prospects to fulfil the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement are becoming increasingly illusory.

Global Alternatives 2024

Naming the World Minority

What is the best collective name for the so-called ‘Developed World’? It has names for itself; its economists speak of the Advanced or Industrialised nations and its politicians the ‘Free World’ or even the ‘Civilized world’. The rest of us have other names, not all polite: Collective West, Global North, Hegemonists, Globalists, to name but a few. Some, perhaps waking up to the new realities, are starting to speak of the global periphery. This is an interesting inversion, but may be a bit premature.

Multipolarity and Connectivity

The Central Asian Region as a Model for Future Eurasian Cooperation

In the reassessment of identity, it is necessary for nations, countries and peoples to clearly take into account the impact on the state of security and stability of the future common space of coexistence. It is important that this does not act as a trigger for the Eurasian security system. Sanzhar Valiev reflects on the world order in the context of the analysis of the Valdai Club Annual report “The World From the Bottom Up or The Masterpieces of Eurasian Architecture”. The article was prepared specially for the 21st Annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club

Habitat: Shared by Everyone, Each Uniquely

Recognising our diversities as a great strength of our species-being allows us to consider non-antagonistic development opportunities by rekindling empathy and solidarity in our relationships. We possess the means to afford all of humanity a quality of life that is freed from humiliation and despair, writes Rasigan Maharajh for the 21st Annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.

Rasigan Maharajh

Valdai Club Is a Unique Platform for Dialogue. Day 4 of the Annual Meeting

For twenty years now, the plenary session on the last day has been the culmination of the Annual Meetings of the Valdai Club. However, in recent years, a new tradition has emerged – an open discussion, during which all participants can share their opinions about the conference.

Vladimir Putin Meets with Members of the Valdai Discussion Club. Transcript of the Plenary Session of the 21st Annual Meeting

Vladimir Putin took part in the 21st Annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club. The name of this year’s event is “Lasting Peace on What Basis? Common Security and Equal Opportunities for Development in the 21st Century”. The plenary session was held by Valdai Club Research Director Fyodor Lukyanov.

The Global Majority and Order Based on Respect for Diversity

There is a shared understanding among practitioners of international relations that the unipolar moment of the 1990's is gone and that we now live in a multipolar world. That the change has already occurred is reflected by the emergence of a new lexicon in international politics, writes Fabiano P. Mielniczuk for the 21st Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club

Fabiano Mielniczuk

Features of the ‘Global Majority’: Increasing Importance with Limited Subjectivity

For quite a long time now, an opinion has been forming in scientific, expert and political circles about the increasing importance of a certain range of countries, which goes by different names: “developing”, “the Global South”, and “the rest”. The term “Global Majority” introduced in the first year of the Special Military Operation (SVO) by Russian experts seems to be quite suitable, writes Ivan Safranchuk for the 21st Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.

Ivan Safranchuk

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Videoinfographic: Global security

Videoinfographic: Cyber security

Videoinfographic: Energy for the Global South

Videoinfographic: Countries of the Global South

World’s Population in 21st Century