On October 26, the tenth session of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club was held in Moscow. The session was titled “The World That Crumbled: Lessons for the Future From the 2022 Military-Political Crisis”.
The institutions of world governance that were established in the second half of the twentieth century and provided a certain framework for international players are no longer working. The situation in world politics has returned to the historical norm: chaotic competition, which can only be limited by the balance of power of the opposing sides. Will there ever be a new system of rules and governance structures? What could it look like? Or has the year 2022 opened up a period of indefinite and dangerous instability?