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The stark choice between occupation and disarmament.

Tehran’s new strategic calculus.

The costs of democratic drain.

Pakistan’s elites contributed to the cessation of hostilities between the United States and Iran, although the fighting was suspended primarily because neither side proved capable of defeating the other. Islamabad’s efforts therefore acted more as a catalyst for the ceasefire—though the positive role played by the Pakistanis cannot be denied, writes Gleb Makarevich.

This report is the second collective work produced by participants in the Valdai—New Generation1 project, bringing together, in a shared intellectual endeavour, a large cohort of young—yet already accomplished—researchers from Russia, China, India, Brazil, Tajikistan, Italy, Colombia, Turkey, and the Republic of Korea. Over the course of a year, all of them prepared and published […]

The pursuit of rational self-interest, long thought to be the single most important factor determining the behaviour of political actors, may no longer be regarded as such. Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club, describes the “politics of impressions” that has come to define […]