Valdai Club

2016

Eurasia in the 21st Century: Russia’s Role and Prospects for the Future

Timofei Bordachev

Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic Supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE)

The emergence of Eurasia as a unified interdependent entity is a complex process reflecting both the logic of regional development and global trends towards the ‘new regionalism’. Nevertheless, the process of Eurasian regional integration is subject to complex and contradictory ambitions, with the possibility of achieving significant public goods for Eurasia itself as well as for the region’s partners in greater Europe and greater Asia. Eurasia is currently one of the strategic directions for Russian development. The programme focuses on discussion of models of development for a new Eurasia and its possible configurations.

Reports

THE EASTERN PERSPECTIVE

Report: Chinese Perspective on the Creation of a Eurasian Economic Space

This report aims to illuminate fully the Chinese approach to a comprehensive Eurasian partnership. It will also present what Chinese scholars view as the goals, objectives, and areas of cooperation for Eurasian states, as well as the long-term priorities and anticipated results of such cooperation.

Report: Russia, China, and USA in Central Asia: A Balance Of Interests And Opportunities For Cooperation

The extent and potential for confrontation between the major powers is significantly lower in Central Asia than in the Asia-Pacific region (APR), Eastern Europe or the Middle East. The potential for cooperation is greater because Russia, China, and especially the United States have no vital need to dominate in the region.

Timofei Bordachev, Wan Qingsong, Andrew Small

THE EASTERN PERSPECTIVE

Report: Toward the Great Ocean: Turn to the East. Preliminary Results and New Objectives

Russia’s entire history is in its geography and no matter how huge its territory, it is still a kind of an “inbetween” space.

Sergei Karaganov, Timofei Bordachev

Valdai Papers

The EU's Crises and its Future

Historically, the EU has two leadership models. The first is the leadership of the European Commission. The second is the French-German duumvirate. Today, neither of them is functioning, and the EU is dominated by Germany. This is enabled by the vacuum of leadership and the weakness of Old World national leaders.

Tatiana Romanova

THE EASTERN PERSPECTIVE

Russia and China in Central Asia: The Great Win-Win Game

The SCO summit in Tashkent and Russian President's visit to China which took place in June have provided a good occasion to discuss the need for strengthening multilateral cooperation and ensuring regional security.

Timofei Bordachev

Russia’s Turn Eastward, China’s Turn Westward: Cooperation and Conflict on the New Silk Road

This Paper presents and analyzes the various elements connected to Russia’s Asia pivot and the concurrent moves in the East.

Hans-Joachim Spanger

Industrial Cooperation: Path to Confluence of Russian and Chinese Economies

The strategic partnership with China began in 1996 (just in time when this form of bilateral cooperation first became available), and it was considered by the leaders of Russia and China as a geopolitical rather than economic project.