Valdai Club

2015

Global Alternatives

Oleg Barabanov

Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Professor, MGIMO University; Professor, Russian Academy of Sciences

The goal of this programme is to analyse the content and to assess the realism of the key alternatives to the Western liberal mainstream. Alternatives are studied in the context of ideology and values. Socio-economic alternatives to the liberal mainstream of both intra-Western and extra-Western origin are another subject of analysis. The programme focuses also on political (including military-political) alternatives to the Western liberal model.

Opinions

2024, a Year of Consolidation in Global Changes?

The impact on the Russian economy has still yet to be fully assessed, but it seems to have been strong in 2022 albeit short lived. The counter-effect on the EU economy has been much slower to develop, peeking in 2023, but seems now quite obvious. Globally, sanctions against Russia have led to a dramatic acceleration in changes that have already been visible for years, Jacques Sapir writes.

Valdai Papers

Tsipras and Corbyn: The Year of the European Protest

The problem of rejection and erosion of the neoliberal mainstream has reached a new level in 2015.

Richard Sakwa, Dimitris Konstantakopoulos

Strategic Depth in Syria: From the Beginning to the Russian Intervention

Valdai paper written by Professor Hüseyin Bağci is devoted to the strategy of Turkey in the Syrian conflict.

Hüseyin Bağcı

The Background and Prospects of the Evolution of China’s Foreign Strategies in the New Century

The Chinese example is the exponential model for efficient use of foreign policy for the purpose of internal development of the country.

Another History (Story) of Latin America

The Paper contains a comparative analysis of foreign and economic policies of the key "Left turn" countries: Venezuela, Bolivia, and Brazil.

High End Labour: The Foundation of 21st Century Industrial Strategy

The 26th Valdai paper presents the basics of a strategy for re-industrialization and economic rebalancing that starts from the highest available technology at the world level.

Geopolitical Economy: The Discipline of Multipolarity

The 24th Valdai paper argues for a new academic discipline, geopolitical economy, which is better to understand the multipolar world, reconstruct its historical evolution and assess its progressive potential. The idea that the world is fast becoming multipolar should be uncontroversial.

Social Commons: A New Alternative to Neoliberalism

The 20th Valdai Paper is devoted to the “social commons” concept as an alternative to existing neoliberalism model.

Francine Mestrum

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.

Boris Kagarlitsky