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America can't wish away its toughest challenger.

Double down on what’s succeeding instead of despairing over what’s not.

And what America should learn from it.

Immanuel Kant’s Perpetual Peace, long considered one of the jewels in the Enlightenment’s crown imagining true, well-founded and lasting peace, provides the philosophical basis of the war that the West is today waging against the World Majority, specifically against Russia, with China also in its sights, in the name of the Rules Based International Order […]

Diplomacy remains a fundamental component of power, a way to convert all types of state resources into influence. Conducting research into diplomacy practices is all the more important today because the crumbling, hegemonic world order is yielding to polycentricity, which has led to increased rivalry between states, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Andrey Sushentsov.

The original, Kantian, if you like, anthropology will be common to everyone. If this is so, we have the grounds for building a new world order, one which is organically acceptable for the entire planet. It remains for us, also in the Kantian way, to hope for this.