Valdai Club

2017

The Global Revolt: Widespread Social Changes and Their Consequences for the World Order

Oleg Barabanov

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

The events of 2016 – particularly Brexit and Trump’s electoral win – illustrate the deepening tensions in leading Western countries between the elite and ordinary citizens. The struggle between the established “globalization for the elite” and the growing demand for a “globalization for all” has made the emerging social and political transformation of the West increasingly central to the global agenda. Against this backdrop, the Valdai Club has formulated the concept of a “global revolt” against the status quo. This program analyzes the social and political causes of that “revolt,” the activity of new rightist and leftist political forces, and the ways in which forces of the “old world order” are reacting to this change.

Reports

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.

Oleg Barabanov, Daniil Grigoryev, Boris Kagarlitsky, Vasily Koltashov

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.

Oleg Barabanov, Boris Kagarlitsky, Dmitry Efremenko, Vasily Koltashov, Kirill Telin

Valdai Club Report: Global Revolt and Global Order. The Revolutionary Situation in Condition of the World and What to Do about It

Why the disorder? What is anatomy of a protest? How the "game without rules" affected the economy? Is there one solution of all problems? What is the role of international institutions? Answers to these questions are contained in the report prepared by the research team of the Valdai Discussion Club Foundation led by Fyodor Lukyanov.

Oleg Barabanov, Timofei Bordachev, Fyodor Lukyanov, Andrey Sushentsov, Dmitry Suslov, Ivan Timofeev

Valdai Papers

The Russian Revolution of 1917: History, Memory, and Politics

In 100 years since the Revolution of 1917, it continues to have impact on the Russian society. Divergent assessments of the Revolution and different approaches to its commemoration have been sparking off heated debates on Russia’s past and future.

Alt-Right: A Rise of Radical Alternative Rightist Movements in the Trumpist Framework

Alt-Right incarnation of the right-wing ideology presents a dubious and quite self-contradictive concept. What is more important is that it clearly illustrates the massive ideological and political transformation that alters the political balance in the Western countries.

Jeffrey Sommers, Daniil Grigoryev

Arms Control, Security Cooperation And US-Russian Relations

The US-Russia relationship has hit its lowest point since the Cold War. Ensuring strategic stability — a situation in which neither side has a strong incentive to strike first, even in a severe crisis — faces numerous challenges.

Arab Uncertainty after the ‘Spring’

After six years of rapid and successive developments that have engulfed Arab countries, they could not reach a safe path towards the future. They are still suffering instability and bloody conflicts along the most critical phase of their history.

Nourhan ElSheikh

A Cyber Revolt in the Making

Regular news reports on cyberattacks, information leaks, hacking and their political consequences have been dominating the headlines. Cyberspace turned out to be an efficient means to bring people together and to exert their will, which governments have to reckon with.

Julien Nocetti, Elena Chernenko