... nationalism which is already at almost hysterical level. It will not help Poroshenko’s main rival in next year’s Ukraine presidential election, Julia Timoshenko. She will be forced to match Poroshenko’s escalating Russophobia.
The forthcoming G20 Summit will be marred by this incident. The expected focus was to be on US-China trade tensions. G20 was to be an opportunity for other members to urge moderation by both sides and for their current trade tensions to be addressed in a multilateral WTO context, rather than by reciprocal sanctions and counter-sanctions.
The Kerch incident introduces ...
On July 10 Valdai International Discussion Club organized an expert discussion on the outcomes of G20 Summit.
On July 10 Valdai International Discussion Club organized an expert discussion on the outcomes of G20 Summit.
Fyodor Lukyanov, Member of RIAC, Academic Director of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club,...
Relations between Russia and the United States, as well as between Russia and US-oriented European countries, further deteriorated following the G-20 summit in Brisbane due to the crisis in Ukraine. This poses the question for analysts as to how this situation might affect Moscow’s Middle East policy and the existing forms of cooperation with the West on regional issues, namely: the Middle East quartet of international mediators; the negotiations of the five permanent members of the UN Security...
... topic centers on new sources of long-term investment funding. Here the discussion is spearheaded toward the role of government, in particular public-private partnerships (PPP), foreign direct investment (FDI) and reforming the financial regulators.
The G20 invariably touches on reforms to international financial institutions, and this year is no exception. It is a well-publicized fact that the G20 summit in Seoul in November 2010 approved plans to reform the IMF governance system and quotas. However, it remains largely just a talking point, as nothing has happened at the national level either in Europe or in the United States. It is rather ...
