This report is the second collective work produced by participants in the Valdai—New Generation project, bringing together, in a shared intellectual endeavour, a large cohort of young—yet already accomplished—researchers from Russia, China, India, Brazil, Tajikistan, Italy, Colombia, Turkey, and the Republic of Korea. Over the course of a year, all of them prepared and published original commentaries on the Valdai Club’s website, addressing the most pressing issues in today’s world. They subsequently collaborated, as part of five working groups, in drafting the report’s collective chapters.
The authors continue the tradition of the Valdai—New Generation project, presenting themselves as historians of the present, whose task is not to persuade the reader of the correctness of their particular interpretations of key events and phenomena, but rather to offer an opportunity for refl ection based on the fresh perspectives of scholars representing diverse cultural traditions, yet united in their search for truth. The reader is thus given the chance to determine independently which processes are most significant for global politics, economics, and social development, and how to navigate the complex landscape of international life at the outset of the second quarter of the twenty-first century.
Such intellectual freedom becomes especially important in a world where, as the authors of one chapter observe, “the pursuit of security relentlessly reshapes the foundations of prosperity”.
As always, the methodology we have chosen carries its own particular features and limitations—it does not aim to construct a coherent and unified concept of how the new generation of Valdai experts perceives the present or envisions the future.
From the foreword by the academic editor
About the Authors
Priyanshu Agarwal
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Mehrubon Ashurov
Research Assistant, Laboratory for Contemporary Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus, Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS
Christian Baldi
PhD student, RUDN University, Specialist, Department for European and American countries
Maria Bazlutskaya
PhD in Political Science, Executive Director ANO “Coordination Laboratory”
Medha Bhardwaj
PhD Candidate, Centre For Russian and Central Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Beatris Bineva
Consular Specialist at the Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in the Russian Federation
Pavel Devyatkin
Senior Associate, Arctic Institute (USA), Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute (USA), Visiting Lecturer, HSE University
Yize Huang
PhD candidate, Nazarbayev University
Rajoli Siddharth Jayaprakash
Junior Research Fellow, Observer Research Foundation
Yuri Kolotaev
Assistant professor, St. Petersburg State University
Marina Krynzhina
Associate Professor, Department of International Journalism, MGIMO University; Senior Researcher, FRC CSC RAS
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida
Independent Journalist; Master, Brazilian War College
Li Kunlin
PhD, East China Normal University
Nikita Lipunov
Junior Research Fellow, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University
Alena Lisenkova
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University
Hao Nan
Research Fellow, Charhar Institute
Lorenzo Maria Pacini
Associate Professor in Political Philosophy and Geopolitics, UniDolomiti of Belluno
Heramb Podar
AI Policy Fellow, Center for AI and Digital Policy (USA)
Anastasia Pogorelskaya
Associate Professor at the Department of World Politics, Tomsk state university
Mateo Rojas Samper
PhD student, MGIMO University
Liliya Romadan
PhD in Political Science, Institute of African Studies, RAS; member of the Digoria Expert Club
Muhammad Shamsuddinov
Master’s degree from Russian-Tajik (Slavonic) University
Hasibe Tuğçe Taşık
Regional Expert, Center for Energy Strategy Planning and Research (Turkey)
Dong Suk Yoo
PhD student, MGIMO University
Irina Iutiaeva
PhD in Political Science, MGIMO University
Under the general editorship of Timofei Bordachev
The Valdai Discussion Club was established in 2004. It is named after Lake Valdai, which is located close to Veliky Novgorod, where the Club’s first meeting took place.
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