The World Majority and Its Interests. Presentation of the Valdai Club Report

Valdai Discussion Club Conference Hall, Tsvetnoy Boulevard 16/1, Moscow, Russia

On October 10 at 12:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club hosted a presentation of the report “The World Majority and Its Interests”.

Is a unified policy possible towards the unconsolidated group of countries of the world majority? Can the “world majority” become a universal concept and enter into wide international usage? What qualities are characteristic of the participants? And how can their role on the world stage change? The authors of the report and the discussion participants tried to answer these and other questions.

Materials

Club events

Wider Eurasia

Living by One's Own Wits: The World Majority in Search of Independent Decision-Making

On October 10, the Valdai Discussion Club hosted a presentation of the report “The World Majority and Its Interests.” The moderator of the event, Timofey Bordachev, lead author and editor of the report, explained that this refers to the absolute majority of countries in the world that are not directly involved in either the military-political conflict between Russia and the West or the confrontation between China and the United States, and prefer not to take sides in these confrontations. How are the interests of countries in this group formed and evolving? What can we expect from them in the future and how will their behaviour affect the development of international politics and the global economy?

10.10.2024

Reports

Wider Eurasia

The World Majority and Its Interests

The emergence, in 2022, of a large group of countries, which in the Russian foreign policy discourse is referred to as the “World Majority,” came as a most meaningful event in the modern-day international life.

Timofei Bordachev

10.10.2024