Valdai Club

Second Russian-Kazakhstani Expert Forum

Astana

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List of speakers

Materials

Armenia’s Lesson for the Eurasian Union: The Future of Integration

It is geopolitics that dictates the geometry of Yerevan’s national interests, no matter who is in power. But this does not mean that the Armenian political crisis is resolved and its causes are not worth analyzing. Regardless of Pashinyan’s reassuring statements, the final denouement in Armenia is some way off yet.

Vyacheslav Sutyrin

New US Eurasian Strategy and Central Asia

Despite the political and administrative chaos in Washington, the US is crystallizing its foreign policy strategy for the next few years. This strategy is being formed on the common denominator principle rather than as a comprehensive idea handed down from on-high and takes in several impulses from various sides.

Processes and Mechanisms for Multilateral Interaction in Central Asia at the Present Stage

The current year may mark an important step for Central Asian countries – constantly vacillating between rapprochement and disunity – toward the former. It is essential that they do so if there is to be a collective response to present-day global and regional challenges. There are also mutually beneficial economic, transport, logistical, cultural, humanitarian, and other projects to be implemented.

Andrey Chebotarev

Challenges As a Source of Growth: How to Make Eurasian Integration More Efficient

How do the Chinese dragon, the American hegemony, the regional egoism and the “inevitability of Russia” coexist in Eurasia? Which ship should Central Asia focus on – the sinking one or the one which does not yet exist? What should flies do when camels fight? These are some of the questions raised at the closed-door sessions of the Russia-Kazakhstan expert forum, held in Astana on May 10-11 by the Valdai Discussion Club and the Kazakhstan Council on Foreign Relations.

Future Challenges

Report: The Old World Revisited: Future of the International Order in Eurasia

We are witnessing an unprecedented peacetime shift in wealth and power distribution from the West to the East. The Old World, Eurasia, although being full of divisions, regains the lead. How to ensure stability in the region? What place is destined for Russia in the new order?

Nikolai Silaev, Andrey Sushentsov

Eurasia: Island of Stability or Artificial Entity?

What is Eurasia? An oxymoron, a conglomeration of civilizations, which are absolutely incompatible with one another? Or a field for cooperation, a unique political association? Is there a Eurasian community in general and what challenges does it face? These were the questions, which were discussed by participants in the first panel of the Russian-Kazakhstan expert forum of the Valdai Discussion Club, held in Astana on May 10-11 in cooperation with the Kazakhstan Council on Foreign Relations.

Future Challenges

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.

Yauheni Preiherman

China's Global Ambitions and the US Role in Eurasia: Views from Moscow and Astana

The 2nd Kazakhstan-Russia Expert Forum of the Valdai Discussion Club and the Kazakhstan Council on International Relations will be held in Astana (Kazakhstan) on May 10-11, 2018.

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Photo Gallery: 2nd Russian-Kazakhstani Expert Forum. Panel: New Outlines of Cooperation in Central Asia and Closing

Photo Gallery: 2nd Russian-Kazakhstani Expert Forum. Panel: New US Strategy in Eurasia

Photo Gallery: 2nd Russian-Kazakhstani Expert Forum. Panel: Silk Strategy of China: View from Astana and Moscow

Photo Gallery: 2nd Russian-Kazakhstani Expert Forum. Panel: Eurasian Integration: Challenges and Prospects

Photo Gallery: 2nd Russian-Kazakhstani Expert Forum. Opening and Panel: Eurasia in the Era of Global Geopolitical Transformation

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Military Potentials of the Central Asian Countries