Valdai Club

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.