📆 ANNOUNCEMENT: On November 29 at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Discussion Club will host a discussion titled: “Russia, the Global South, and the World Majority.”

Amid the fundamental changes in the world order and global economy, the countries of the Global South are playing an increasingly significant role. The development of cooperation between Russia and the world majority requires a deeper understanding and consideration of the interests of these countries.

The Global South countries are increasingly declaring their independent positions and setting goals, while maintaining close ties with the United States, the European Union and the international economic institutions they control. For Russian foreign policy, it is necessary to understand this duality, take it into account in practical interaction with these countries, and also comprehend the significance of this phenomenon and the interests of its participants.

❓What is the phenomenon of the countries of the modern Global South?
❓What real influence do these countries have?
❓How can they influence modern international political and economic institutions?
❓What areas of cooperation with these countries are the most promising for Russia?

The participants in the discussion will try to answer these and other questions.

🎙️ Speakers:

🇷🇺 Lydia Kulik, Head of India Studies at Skolkovo School of Management

🇷🇺 Denis Degterev, Editor-in-Chief, Jounal of the Institute for African Studies RAS, professor HSE

🇳🇴 Glenn Diesen, Professor, University of South-Eastern Norway

Moderator:

🗣 Timofei Bordachev, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club

https://valdaiclub.com/events/announcements/valdai-club-to-discuss-the-global-south-and-the-world-majority/

Working languages: Russian, English.

ℹ️ Information for the media: In order to get accredited for the event, please fill out the form on our web site. If you have any questions about the event, please call +79269307763. 

Links to the live broadcast of the discussion will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the website, X (formerly Twitter), VK, Telegram and Dzen.

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🌏 If the states of Greater Eurasia do not have classical factors of international cooperation at their disposal, then it is very likely that they can be replaced by those common goals that not only meet their current interests, but are also the most historically rooted, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Timofei Bordachev.

The basis for the gradual formation of a community of states of Greater Eurasia will be the opportunity to obtain within it what the countries of this region most strive for – resources for solving national development tasks as the basis for stability and survival of the state. 

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/greater-eurasia-and-the-search-for-new-solutions/

📍 This is the second part of the author’s reflections on the possible foundations of international cooperation in Greater Eurasia.

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🇹🇷 The militarisation of Turkey’s foreign policy during Justice and Development Party rule has been accompanied by the weakening of the role of the Armed Forces and military institutions in the domestic political system.

The approach to the use of military force in Turkey’s foreign policy has become more complex, and at the same time its importance and possible options have increased.

For a long time, Turkey’s military industry has been critically dependent on Western financing, institutions and technology, the fragmentary manifestations and consequences of which persist today.

However, during the AKP period, the Turkish military-industrial complex has gone through two main stages of development: eliminating external dependence and developing the country’s internal potential and introducing a high-tech component of the military-industrial complex and entering the international market, writes Nubara Kulieva, a participant in the Valdai – New Generation project.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/military-aspect-of-turkey-s-foreign-policy/

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⏰ TODAY at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Discussion Club will host a discussion titled: “Russia, the Global South, and the World Majority.”

❓What is the phenomenon of the countries of the modern Global South?
❓What real influence do these countries have?
❓How can they influence modern international political and economic institutions?
❓What areas of cooperation with these countries are the most promising for Russia?

The participants in the discussion will try to answer these and other questions.

Links to the live broadcast of the discussion will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the website, X (formerly Twitter), VK, Telegram and Dzen.

#WiderEurasia #GlobalSouth #WorldMajority

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🎥 LIVE: at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), we are starting a discussion titled: “Russia, the Global South, and the World Majority.”

https://vk.com/video-214192832_456239231

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🗣 On November 29, 2024, the Valdai Club hosted a discussion titled: “Russia, the Global South, and the World Majority.”

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🌍 New Opportunities in a Multipolar World: Russia, the Global South, and the Global Majority

On November 29, 2024, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion titled “Russia, the Global South, and the Global Majority.”

💬 Moderator Timofei Bordachev called the topic both timely and important. According to him, interaction with the countries of the global majority and the Global South is of great importance for Russia in the new system of external relations. In addition, these countries themselves now have a much greater influence on world politics and economics than they did just a few years ago.

💬 Lydia Kulik, Head of India Studies at the Skolkovo School of Management, noted that the countries of the Global South are characterised by their boundless diversity, but they are united by a desire to defend their interests, strengthen their voices in the international arena, and achieve respect for their approaches. They, especially the African countries, expect a more active position from Russia, which they see as the guarantor of a more just world order. The initiatives formulated by Russia during its year as president of BRICS may become an important factor in correcting the imbalance in the global economy and building a fairer world, but their implementation will take time.

💬 "The whole world understands that the future belongs to the Global South, and that there is great competition in working with it, including Africa," said Denis Degterev, Editor-in-Chief of the Jounal of the Institute for African Studies RAS, professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. In particular, Western countries are actively co-opting African elites. At the same time, small African countries have a hard time in the complex modern world, and so they hope to rely on collective mechanisms to protect their interests. According to Degterev, Russia is again acting as a structure-forming actor in world politics, which helps to form collective institutions of global governance capable of working in the interests of the countries of the Global South.

💬 Glenn Diesen, a professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway, emphasised that the rise of the global majority corresponds to the interests of both Russia and the countries of the Global South. Now there is a transition from a unipolar to a multipolar world, and this creates great tension and many conflicts, but at the same time opens up new opportunities for cooperation that the Global South can take advantage of. This also concerns diversification in the economic sphere, in which it is gaining greater political sovereignty. The countries of the Global South are successfully moving to a new level, becoming subjects of the world order, rather than objects. At the same time, in order to retain their subjectivity, they try to avoid bloc politics and cooperate with different centres of influence.

https://valdaiclub.com/events/posts/articles/new-opportunities-in-a-multipolar-world-russia-the-global-south-and-the-global-majority/

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