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8 september 2017
Eurasia: Doomed to Division?
The past two or three years have witnessed unprecedented interest in Eurasia.
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8 september 2017
BRICS: Will the Future be Brighter?
The ninth BRICS Summit held on September 3–5, 2017, in Xiamen and chaired by China goes under the theme «BRICS: Stronger Partnership for a Brighter Future».
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8 september 2017
BRICS-Plus: Alternative Globalization in the Making?
By building a network of economic alliances across continents, the BRICS may take the lead in shaping global economic integration against the backdrop of waning integration impulses in the developed world.
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7 september 2017
Report: Toward the Great Ocean - 5: From The Turn To The East To Greater Eurasia
The report has been prepared based on the series of research conducted in late 2016 – early 2017 and the situation analysis “Turn to the East: A new stage and agenda for co-operation”.
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4 september 2017
What World War I Can Teach Us About How To Manage The North Korea Crisis
We should not delude ourselves with the assumption that peace is the natural state of mankind in our age.
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4 september 2017
China Sanctions Hint of What’s To Come
Recent US sanctions against China and Russia are signs of the Trump administration’s toughening approach to North Korea. Ironically, these sanctions come on the heels of a UN Security Council resolution imposing new measures against North Korea that the US, China and Russia voted in favor of.
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30 august 2017
A Regime With no Hegemon? Lessons from the West and Cooperation in Eurasia
This summer, the US Congress approved, and President Donald J. Trump signed a bill that made economic warfare against Russia, Iran and the DPRK an integral part of US foreign policy.
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29 august 2017
China sanctions hint of what’s to come
Recent US sanctions against China and Russia are signs of the Trump administration's toughening approach to North Korea.
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28 august 2017
How to Tame the Cyber Beast?
A decade ago it was possible to say that cyber was a promising new topic, which had the potential to stay beyond the realm of politics. Today, not so much.
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23 august 2017
Looking out Five Years: Ideological, Geopolitical, and Economic Drivers of Russian Foreign Policy
Putin has embraced patriotism and Eurasianism, but Russia must soon confront economic, security, and demographic headwinds, as well as the imperative of reform.
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23 august 2017
Eastern Europe is Heating up
Berlin’s current frustration with Warsaw is a symptom of Eastern Europe’s growing geopolitical importance. The region is attracting attention from two key global players: the United States and China. Germany is mainly concerned with Poland’s rapprochement with the United States and hostility towards Berlin.
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22 august 2017
Russia's WTO Membership – Marking the First 5 Years
This August Russia is marking its 5th anniversary of WTO membership. As Russians look back at the experience of the past 5 years for many this anniversary is a reminder of the record-long odyssey to join the Club as well as the disillusionment over the lack of dividends after the entry into the organization.
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14 august 2017
Afghanistan: Stabilization Is Far Away
The military and political situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate. The daily terrorist attacks, carried out by the Taliban movement and other radical groups, are aimed not only against government and military facilities, but also against the civilians.
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7 august 2017
What Chinese Naval Base in Djibouti Means
The recent official opening of the Chinese military base in Djibouti should be seen in the context of the Chinese naval presence expansion in the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean and the coming change of China’s role in global and regional security.
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2 august 2017
Russia’s Eurasian Model of Modernization
As Russia’s literary classicists claimed, the most important issue for Russia is a sense of direction and in today’s context this is exactly what is lacking in Russia’s economic policy paradigm.
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1 august 2017
The U.S. in Central Asia: between «С5+1» and «Make America Great Again»
October 30 to November 3, 2015, was marked by the first large-scale visit made by the U.S. Secretary of State to Central Asia, covering all five countries of the region.
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25 july 2017
The West’s Decadent Foreign Policy
The West is increasingly reluctant to allow its vision of civil liberties and human rights to shape foreign policy, often owing to the potential commercial costs. Such foreign-policy decadence threatens to undermine the West's claim to be a community of values – and the EU's claim to be more than a glorified customs union.
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24 july 2017
Russian-Chinese Exercises in the Baltic As an Element of a Changing World
On July 20th, the five day naval exercises between China and Russia were officially kicked off in the Baltic Sea. It seems that this has made restless the Western media. Even if it does not mean that "the specter of communism is wandering around Europe," at least one sentence is added: "This is another manifestation of the new authoritarian coalition."
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12 july 2017
G20 in Hamburg: Positive or Negative? Expert Discussion
The Valdai Discussion Club held an expert discussion dedicated to the results of the Hamburg G20 summit, which took place over the weekend.
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10 july 2017
North Korea and the Limits of Trump’s and America’s Power
Not for the first time in the past century, Korea is the most dangerous place on Earth. Kim Jong Un’s nuclear weapons and missile program is making seemingly rapid progress. The July 4 test demonstrated that North Korea is getting closer to building a missile that can deliver a nuclear warhead or chemical weapons to the continental United States. Even though North Korea is not yet capable of such an attack, it almost certainly will be within the next ten years.
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5 july 2017
China and Russia: Good Neibours, Good Partners
Compared with the ups and downs in relations between many big powers in recent years, the continuous, stable and effective promotion of Sino - Russian relations has shown a great contrast.
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3 july 2017
Trumpery and Knavery: Looking for the Virtuous
Donald J. Trump is an outsider to the political establishment, having never served in an elected of?ce before his unexpected victory in November 2016. His populist insurgency is grounded in his long experience as a maverick business tycoon.
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29 june 2017
Breaking the U.S.-Russia Impasse: Keeping the Door Open to Dialogue
The relations between the United States and the Russian Federation have been deteriorating at a rapid pace. Each nation has been accused of interfering in the domestic elections of the other, making it increasingly difficult for the respective administrations of these states to work cohesively to solve critical problems between the two states.
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29 june 2017
Russia Will Not Lose from the Denunciation of the INF Treaty
Recently the American journal Politico, referring to some congressmen, reported on the proposal to the US administration from the Congress about possible withdrawal from the INF treaty, signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987.
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20 june 2017
Russia-China: An Alliance for Peace or War?
Will the union between China and Russia help strategic stability?
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9 june 2017
The United States as a Republic of Curved Mirrors: What is Russia to Do?
The morbid situation involving a political and information war that developed in the United States this winter, where the traditional establishment seeks to weaken or completely remove the incumbent president from office, portraying Trump and his retinue as Russian puppets and traitors, continues to worsen.
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6 june 2017
Bridging the Dividing Lines in Greater Eurasia
The EU could find a partner in China, which is pushing its New Silk Road initiative to include Central Asian states, Russia, and Eastern European states. This would connect the EU and the EEU in a new broader framework “from Lisbon to Shanghai,” stimulate inter-regional cooperation, and lead to greater prosperity across the whole of Eurasia.
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6 june 2017
Asian Values as a Road to Progress
The uniqueness of the Far Eastern mobilization breakthrough is largely based on the traditional Confucian legacy, which, effectively applied, have helped Asian countries boost their status in the changing world order.
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6 june 2017
Cluster of Civilizations
Our oikumene will have to be recognized as multi-civilizational if a more balanced and multi-polar world is the ultimate goal. It is this kind of approach that is capable of making civilizational dialogue conflict free and mutually enriching.
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6 june 2017
Towards a New Strategy of Civilizational Concentration
Once it has consolidated its civilizational subjectivity, Russia will be able to go back to playing an active role in world affairs. This rebound will not be a return to the principles of (neo)-Soviet or superpower globalism. Rather, it will proceed from a new understanding of the country’s international role.
Ideology of Eastward Turn
The first phase of Russia’s turn towards rising Asia is gaining momentum – the Far East’s rate of development is twice the national average.
Shadows Over the Putin-Trump Summit
The U.S. president probably expected to declare that he had a “very good” meeting with the formidable Vladimir Putin and had achieved what none of his White House predecessors had. Instead, Donald Trump’s performance, particularly at the press conference, inflicted on him accusations of na?vet? and even treason, and his retractions hardly repaired the damage. This is disquieting news for Putin: instead of a much needed defrosting of U.S.-Russian relations, America's anti-Russia policy may get harder still.
Israel and Gaza: Determination vs. Desperation
The Israel–Hamas conflict threatens to escalate into a new war that could surpass anything seen during the previous operations in the Gaza Strip in terms of the amount of bloodshed.
Two Significant Developments in US-Russian Relations
What has emerged over the past year is a two-track US policy: resumption of contacts between the two presidents with a promise of more summits and reopening of discussion channels on a number of issues at the same time as there has been an escalation of sanctions.
Germany’s Dangerous Nuclear Flirtation
Opening a debate on German nuclear armament, as some are advocating, would be the geopolitical equivalent of walking into checkmate.
The New Global Governance: Towards a More Sustainable Framework
Faced with threats ranging from climate change to hugely disruptive technological advances, the world is clearly at a crossroads. More than ever a stable, inclusive and global governance is needed.
Infrastructure Connectivity and Political Stability in Eurasia
The country’s geographic location largely predetermines its foreign policy, as well as the trajectory of its socioeconomic development. However, even the most negative geographical limitations can be overcome via connectivity and compatibility that are the passport to the success of Eurasian integration.