Arquivos de 14 out 2025

Monica de Bolle, an expert in Brazilian economic policy, makes an authoritative argument that Brazil’s economic problems will persist no matter the outcome of the country’s presidential election. A Flávio Bolsonaro administration would fare no better than Lula when it comes to reducing debt and delivering growth—and Bolsonaro’s illiberal policies could make the economic picture […]

Barry Posen, a professor at MIT, is one of America's leading experts on international security. He argues that the United States military is breaking down because it has been overused and overextended over the last 30 years, and that the only way to repair it is for Washington to exercise much more restraint.

Dmitry Adamsky, an expert on Russian security and Russian nuclear deterrence strategy at Harvard and Reichman Universities, examines a large-scale shift in Russia’s strategic thinking over the past year, centered around the view that Europe, rather than the United States, is now Russia’s primary geopolitical rival and adversary, and looking at the consequences of this […]

On October 23, the Valdai Discussion Club’s Moscow venue hosted a discussion titled “Russia and Africa: In It for the Long Haul?” Participants discussed the sustainability of Russian-African cooperation, its prospects for the next fifteen to twenty years, and the conditions necessary for the transition from political agreements to long-term practical projects.

On 28 October at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Moscow venue of the Valdai Club will host a presentation of the report “The Unfreedom of Navigation?” dedicated to the implementation of international maritime law norms in modern conditions.

If industrial capitalism alienated the product of physical labour from workers, today the largest tech companies are alienating the “product” of their very existence in the form of behavioural data and social interactions. Profiting from this data facilitates the concentration of capital and the transformation of Big Tech corporations into monopolies of previously unimaginable scale, […]