🌎 Today’s developments around the world are reminiscent of a global civil conflict, and humanity must develop new tools to address them.

This was emphasized by Andrey Bystritskiy, Chair of the Board at the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club, during his speech at the Global South Media and Think Tank Summit held in São Paulo on November 10-11 and themed “Development and Revitalization: A New Journey for the Global South.”

The summit aimed to contribute to the voices of the countries of the Global South being heard more prominently on the world stage. 

https://valdaiclub.com/events/posts/articles/how-to-prevent-a-global-civil-war/

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⏰ TODAY at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club will host an expert discussion dedicated to the Russia-DPRK Treaty and the security situation in Northeast Asia.

❓How exactly will the provisions of the Treaty between Russia and the DPRK be applied?
❓Will they entail additional sanctions for both parties?
❓How do neighbouring countries – China and South Korea – view the signing of the Treaty?
❓How will this affect the situation in the region?

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.

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🎥 LIVE: at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), we are starting an expert discussion dedicated to the Russia-DPRK Treaty and the security situation in Northeast Asia.

https://vk.com/video-214192832_456239230

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🗣 On November 27, 2024, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion dedicated to the Russia-DPRK Treaty and the security situation in Northeast Asia.

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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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🇷🇺🇰🇵 Bilateral Dynamism: New Comprehensive Russia-DPRK Partnership Treaty

On November 27, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion on the Russia-DPRK Treaty and the security situation in Northeast Asia. The moderator of the discussion was Ivan Timofeev, Programme Director of the Valdai Club.

💬 Dmitry Kiku, Deputy Director of the Department for Control over External Restrictions of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, called the Russia-DPRK Strategic Comprehensive Partnership Treaty a continuation of the bilateral treaties and agreements that existed between the Soviet Union and the DPRK, as well as between the DPRK and the Russian Federation, in particular, the 1961 treaty. The new treaty continues a series of international documents demonstrating that Russia and its allies have begun to practically implement the policy of counteracting illegitimate sanctions.

💬 Georgy Toloraya, Head of the Centre of Russian Strategy in Asia at the Institute of Economics, RAS and Senior Researcher, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia, RAS, pointed out that the emerging reports on the presence of DPRK troops in the Special Operation Zone do not mean that the provisions of the Russian-North Korean treaty (Article 4) devoted to military assistance were invoked, since these reports have not received any official confirmation. The expert also noted the presence of a number of aspects of the treaty that are given less attention. We are talking, for example, about cooperation in the peaceful nuclear energy sector, possibly including the construction of a nuclear power plant.

💬 “It has always been clear to Russian experts on Korea that in the eyes of the United States, the DPRK is, in a sense, a testing ground for sanctions,” noted Ilya Dyachkov, Associate Professor of the Department of Japanese, Korean, Indonesian and Mongolian Languages at MGIMO university. He considers the lifting of unilateral restrictive measures against Pyongyang unlikely. Whatever the North Koreans do, it has not led to a softening of sanctions by either Seoul or by Washington.

💬 Anton Khlopkov, Director of the Centre for Energy and Security, stressed the importance of building strategic contacts with the DPRK without excessive regard for the reaction of other states. “We have noticeably delayed the adoption of an updated fundamental document that would regulate bilateral cooperation,” he believes, pointing out that North Korea is one of the few countries in the modern world that can afford to maintain an independent foreign policy, and therefore relations with it should have an appropriate legal basis and a basis in trade and economics.

💬 Xu Bo, Professor at the Northeast Asia Research Centre of Jilin University, is convinced that since the signing of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty, Russian-North Korean relations have entered a new stage. He proposed to consider these relations primarily not from the point of view of the Ukrainian crisis, but in the context of Russia’s strategic turn to the East, within the framework of which Russia is strengthening relations with all countries of the Asia-Pacific region.

💬 Konstantin Asmolov, Leading Research Fellow at the Korean Studies Centre at the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, noted that speculation around Article 4 of the new treaty overlooks the fact that within its framework, military assistance is possible if one of the parties finds itself in a state of war, which is not identical to any armed conflict and is marked by a declaration of war. At the same time, he considers Article 3 to be more significant, as it speaks of consultations, which in themselves are a serious deterrent. It implies that in a situation of impending conflict, Moscow and Pyongyang will coordinate strategy together.

https://valdaiclub.com/events/posts/articles/bilateral-dynamism-new-comprehensive-russia-dprk-partnership-treaty/

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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

#WiderEurasia #GlobalSouth #WorldMajority

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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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🌐 Without the participation of the global majority, including the countries of the Global South, it is impossible to establish normal relations in the world.

Western countries have taken a course on dividing the world into “bad” and “good”, and this is a very dangerous trend.

Indonesia and Russia, like many other countries, want to live in an open world where there are common rules for everyone, said Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club, speaking at the Conference on Indonesian Foreign Policy (CIFP) on November 30, 2024. This year’s event is titled “Can Middle Powers Calm the Storm and Fix the World?”

https://valdaiclub.com/events/posts/articles/andrey-bystritskiy-speaks-at-the-conference-on-indonesian-foreign-policy/

📍 The Conference on Indonesian Foreign Policy (CIFP) is an annual forum organized by the Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia (FPCI) since 2015. CIFP is a meeting place for representatives of political and expert circles from Indonesia and the world. 

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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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