These days, Sochi hosts the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club titled: “The Polycentric World: Instructions for Use.” The Club’s flagship international conference brings together 140 participants from 42 countries, including Algeria, Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela. You can watch the live broadcast of the plenary session of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club on our website on October 2.
In previous years, Annual Meeting participants analysed the collapse of the world order, the end of Western hegemony, and the principles of the future world order as articulated by Russia’s President. This year’s discussions have focused on issues of personal and state security through the strengthening of sovereignty. At its Annual Meeting, the Club intends to build upon this trajectory by focusing on international cooperation in the new environment characteristic of the era of polycentricity, which the world has now definitively entered.
The topic of the 22nd Annual Meeting is “The Polycentric World: Instructions for Use.” The Valdai discussion organizers assume that polycentric – or multipolar – world does not presuppose stable principles and rules of conduct. It involves many more actors and determining factors than the systems of global governance to which we have become accustomed since the mid-20th century. That is why, in order to navigate it successfully, it is necessary to understand how to optimally avoid numerous risks, maintain the stability of each state and the entire international system, and not to miss the opportunities that arise despite threats and unpredictability.
Read the Programme for details.
Read the Annual Report of the Valdai Discussion Club here.
