Valdai Club

Zohreh Khanmohammadi

Dimitris Konstantakopoulos

Alexey Kasprzhak

Reinhard Krumm

Gürkan Kumbaroğlu

Viktor Katona

Konstantin Kurylev

Meir Kraus

Çağlar Kurç

Boris Kagarlitsky

Russian Federation

Sociologist and Ph.D. in political sciences, Director of the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements (IGSO) in Moscow.

Materials

Report: The Global Leftist Revolt: Expectations and Realities

A few sensational victories including Donald Trump’s rise to power allowed the right wing to get a high profile. Now it is the Left that has a chance to regain initiative in order to challenge the neoliberal mainstream.

Report: Global ‘Rightist Revolt’: Trumpism and Its Foundations

Since 2015, the Valdai Discussion Club has been studying global alternatives to the traditional neoliberal mainstream and their impact upon the world’s transformation. The main collision in the march of globalization is being shifted to domestic conflicts inside the West.

Where have all the robots gone? Globalization and labor relations

Looking back over the two and a half decades of globalization and neoliberal economic policy that have swept the world since the Soviet Union’s collapse, Western experts have noted an unexpected trend: steadily declining labour productivity growth.

Marxism in the Post-Globalization Era

The 13th Valdai paper explores the trends in the development of political ideology at the turn of XX-XXI centuries and reasons of mainstream shifting to the right: from ideas of progressive liberalism to the principles of modern neoliberalism.