Opening and Session 1 ‘The Strategic Landscape: An Eastern Perspective’
October 3 in Sochi. This year’s topic is “The Dawn of the East and the World Political Order.” The first session, was dedicated to the presentation of this year’s Valdai Club Report. Opening of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Club Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club Session 1. The Strategic Landscape: An Eastern Perspective. Presentation of the Valdai Club Report The world politics is experiencing fundamental changes. They are not only about the shifting balance of forces or redistribution of financial streams and economic capabilities. Countries, whose political and strategic culture is fundamentally different from the western notions, which have been dominant in the previous centuries, are beginning to play the leading roles on the international arena. The future world order will emerge in an environment of pluralism of ideas, taking into account views and positions of the leading non-western countries. What are these views? What does Russia’s role look like in these systems of coordinates? Speakers: Yuichi Hosoya, Professor of International Politics, Keio University C Raja Mohan, Director, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore Wang Yiwei, Director, Institute of International Affairs and Centre for European Union Studies, Renmin University of China Hasan Basri Yalçın, Director of Strategic Studies, SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research Moderator: Fyodor Lukyanov, Research Director of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club
October 3 in Sochi. This year’s topic is “The Dawn of the East and the World Political Order.” The first session, was dedicated to the presentation of this year’s Valdai Club Report. Opening of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Club Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club Session 1. The Strategic Landscape: An Eastern Perspective. Presentation of the Valdai Club Report The world politics is experiencing fundamental changes. They are not only about the shifting balance of forces or redistribution of financial streams and economic capabilities. Countries, whose political and strategic culture is fundamentally different from the western notions, which have been dominant in the previous centuries, are beginning to play the leading roles on the international arena. The future world order will emerge in an environment of pluralism of ideas, taking into account views and positions of the leading non-western countries. What are these views? What does Russia’s role look like in these systems of coordinates? Speakers: Yuichi Hosoya, Professor of International Politics, Keio University C Raja Mohan, Director, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore Wang Yiwei, Director, Institute of International Affairs and Centre for European Union Studies, Renmin University of China Hasan Basri Yalçın, Director of Strategic Studies, SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research Moderator: Fyodor Lukyanov, Research Director of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club