Arquivos de 4 jun 2019

9/11 and the unraveling of American democracy.

American businesses need more foreign capital and know-how.

Can Moscow adjust its foreign policy for a changing world?

On September 10, 2026, the Valdai Club held an expert discussion marking the thirtieth anniversary of the UN General Assembly’s adoption of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). Discussion moderator Ivan Timofeev described the CTBT regime as a major achievement of international law but noted that not all signatory nations have ratified the treaty, resulting in […]

As the international system sees a deep fissure between two distinct camps—the West and “the Rest”—there is little room for a third bloc that would have an opportunity to distance itself from the rivalry. Timofei Bordachev, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club, ponders the absence of a neutral option in a world where the […]

In late May 1938, Mao Zedong began a series of lectures in Yan’an that would become On Protracted War. Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Nanjing had fallen to Japanese imperialist ambitions, while China, as a semi-feudal and semi-colonial country, remained vastly inferior in weapons, industry and military organisation. As the resistance became a major front of […]