, inrelations with its weak allies, inevitably faces the challenge ofits own egoism, writes Valdai Club

International institutions still represent a compromise between the power capabilities of their participants and the need for relative civilisational interaction between them, writes Timofei Bordachev, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club. Institutions cannot be effective or on their ow

There are global challenges inthe world, but there are nouniversal answers. Weare entering anew historical era— the world ismaterially connected, and inthis sense, global, but ideologically polymorphic and non-universal.

Only someone completely apathetic would not agree that the modern world order is deep in crisis. The US, the main backer of global liberalism, is witnessing the decline of its prestige.

Talking about tradition, national identity, patriotism is both easy and difficult. It is easy – because everyone gradually got used to the speeches on this topic.

The Ukrainian elites have shaped their foreign policy interest— attracting Western countries totheir side and turning Ukraine into abulwark against Russia. Instead offocusing oninternal development, Ukraine isstriving atall costs toattract the attention, and better the resources ofthe West for conf

TOKYO — The United Nations-backed global vaccination effort is offering additional doses of coronavirus vaccines to North Korea, one of few countries yet to start inoculating residents after a delay in a distribution program slated to begin this summer. Support our journalism.... arrow-right The Gavi Alliance, the part of the Covax initiative that aims to deliver vaccines to the world’s most vulnerable people, said last week that it has allocated nearly 3 million doses of the Chinese-made Sinov

The Eurasian integration project is truly unique. For the first time in history several countries that were once part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union are trying to peacefully establish a new association.

Since the mid-20th century the world’s economic architecture has largely been taken for granted, partly due to the rising role of developed economies and the mounting impulses of economic openness promoted by international institutions. Throughout the past decade, however, the current system of gov

If we assume that the main task of the social sciences is to provide a theoretical understanding of the events taking place in the world, then the past year and a half since the start of the coronavirus pandemic has provided sufficient time to start doing this. The specific nature of the social sci