Valdai Club

It is quite obvious that if we manage to avoid a planetary catastrophe, people on Earth will still have to somehow find a way to coexist, preferably relatively peacefully, comfortably, and even – this sometimes happens – happily. People have dreamed about this throughout the ages, it only remains to somehow clarify the parameters of this human dream.

In the foreseeable future, the fundamental approaches of Russia and China to world affairs will coincide. Both countries share strategic interest in sustainable development. So there is a reason for coordinating actions, both in Eurasia and in the world as a whole, writes Valdai Club Chairman Andrey Bystritskiy.

The African elites have formed a strong desire to achieve a prominent position both in the global hierarchy and in international trade and the overall distribution of global goods, writes Valdai Club Chairman Andrey Bystritskiy.

Real negotiations require genuine courage, political courage, and the realization that human lives are of great importance. It remains to be seen whether the West possesses the necessary political courage and sense of responsibility and whether it can detach itself from its rhetoric of hatred towards competitors such as Russia or China.

The melodic harmony of the modern world has yielded to the cacophony of conflict, which is only intensifying. The global military-political crisis is, regrettably, growing. It appears that significant efforts are required to address this issue.

The original, Kantian, if you like, anthropology will be common to everyone. If this is so, we have the grounds for building a new world order, one which is organically acceptable for the entire planet. It remains for us, also in the Kantian way, to hope for this.

Alas, the world is on fire. And this fire is only growing. For some reason, it seems that we don’t have enough firefighters. But there are plenty of arsonists.

One of the most discussed topics in Russian society is the current and future state of Russian-Indian relations, and their impact on the state of affairs in the modern world. Clearly, Valdai Discussion Club experts are directly involved in ongoing discussions. The text below reflects the results of these discussions.

The three main elements that make up the world matrix have come into ever accelerating motion. Technologies – that is, what we use to manage the world and ourselves – are changing. The environment in which we are immersed and without which we cannot survive is also changing. We ourselves are changing: not only as individuals, but also as a system of various communities: from states to almost informal associations.

Any polycentric system entailing the coexistence of various forces (states, corporations, religious associations, trade unions and so on) is fraught with additional conflicts. But it is precisely the latter circumstance, coupled with global problems of social development, that is pushing countries to accelerate the search for cooperation and the establishment of better regulation mechanisms, writes Valdai Club Chairman Andrey Bystritskiy.