Valdai Club

Russia’s Return to the Middle East: War and Diplomacy

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Gordian Knot of JCPOA

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Global China and the Fears of its Neighbours

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Goodbye Pacific Rim, Hello Indo-Pacific?

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Russia’s Turn to the East: Expectations and the Reality

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North-East Asia: Hopes and Anxieties

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Global Regionalisation and Integration in Eurasia

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The US Trade War With China: Can There Be a Winner?

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Events

Analytics. Eastern Perspective

Protests in Lebanon: An Ocean of Social Issues

The wave of popular indignation that arose on October 17 does not look like an act of civil disobedience organised by any particular political force. It has embraced the most diverse strata of the Lebanese population – transcending the level of confessional communities and even parties. And this is the first, main feature of the present events.

Alexei Sarabyev

Regionalization in Eurasia: Competition or Complementarity?

The idea of regional integration has acquired seemingly new impetus with China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Russia’s Eurasian Economic Union, and the Indo-Pacific idea championed initially by Japan and taken over by the US and endorsed by Australia, India and Indonesia among others.

The Concept of a Common Home: Is There a Choice Between Tolerance and Friendship Among Peoples? Second Day Results

Which is better - tolerance or friendship among peoples? Should goodness be able to defend itself with its fists? Why should the “Far East” become closer to Russia than the “Middle East”? Is Africa a “continent of hope” or a “hopeless continent”? Is a lion dance dangerous? These and many other questions were answered by the participants of the 16th Valdai Club Annual meeting, which is currently taking place in Sochi.

Russia Facing the Challenges of Eurasian Regionalization

The geo-strategic and geo-economic gamble for Russia, as it undertakes its “turn to the East” is that economic and diplomatic gains from this shift will enable it to return in its new incarnation as a “Eurasian powerhouse” to new bargaining processes with the EU as an indispensable partner in the even Greater, writes Valdai Club expert Piotr Dutkiewicz.

Piotr Dutkiewicz

Juche 2.0? How North Korea Adapts to the Modern World

North Korea is located close to economic powers such as South Korea, Japan, China, and Russia, and has an abundance of natural resources and high-quality labor. If North Korea's denuclearization is accompanied by economic reform and opening policies in line with international standards, the growth potential of the North Korean economy will be quite considerable.

Political Islam and Conflicts in the Middle East

Political Islam, as Political Christianism and any other ideologization of religion everywhere in the world, is a reaction against modernity, democracy and secularization: It’s not the same thing as traditional forms of political instrumentalization of religion.

Mohamed-Chérif Ferjani

Turn, U-Turn or Pivot? Valdai Club Experts on the Path of Russia to the Great Ocean

“Yes, we are Scythians! Yes, we are Asians” - perhaps these lines of the Russian poet Alexander Blok could have been included in the epigraph of the presentation of the new Valdai Club book, titled “Toward the Great Ocean: A Chronicle of Russia’s Turn to the East,” which took place on September 4 as part of the EEF-2019.

Russia’s Pivot to the East: Between Wishes and Reality

Russian society, including the expert community, remains undecided about the country’s pivot to the East and its reorientation from the Euro-Atlantic area to eastern Eurasia, something that was announced more than 10 years ago. For many analysts, this is a forced move resulting from Russia being “squeezed” out of Europe.

Leonid Bliakher

Japan and the Development of the Russian Far East

The main objective for the Shinzo Abe administration’s active engagement in supporting the involvement of Japanese companies in the development of the Russian Far East is to create favourable environment for resolution of the territorial issue and conclusion of a peace treaty with Russia.

Caspian Economic Forum Is More Useful Than It Might Seem

The forum, which took place on August 11-12 in Awaza on the Caspian coast of Turkmenistan, brought together five very different states: Eurasian allies Russia and Kazakhstan, neutral Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, which is shrewdly implementing a multi-vector policy, and, finally, Iran, which is struggling amid US economic sanctions.

Evgeny Vinokurov

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Video

The World Order Seen From the East. Plenary Session of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club

03.10.2019

Middle East in the General Context of Russia’s Policy. Session 6 of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club

02.10.2019

Opening of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Club and Session 1 ‘The Strategic Landscape: An Eastern Perspective’

30.09.2019