Requiem for Europe: A New Era of International Cooperation
As the world order rapidly transitions from the hegemony of the United States and its satellites to a fair polycentric world, Europe is increasingly slipping off to the margins of global processes. Given the crisis of trust in US-centric institutions, norms, and standards, the reasonable international majority will have to create new mechanisms to regulate political and business processes. Countries interested in creating a world that is just and equal for all face many challenges, including restoring the role of multilateral institutions of international cooperation and universal rules of law. This process will inevitably be complicated by opposition from the US and its Western allies, who do not wish to lose their dominant role in international relations. However, their confrontational policy will become increasingly irrelevant as independent centres of world development strengthen. The current generation is no longer ready to tolerate inequality and limited opportunities and is ready to put up a united front in order to protect the national interests of their countries, universal and traditional spiritual and moral values, and cooperation without borders. What factors are influencing international life today and what should be done to ensure mutual respect and constructive interaction with foreign partners as well as the consideration of their interests? What role does the current generation play in building a new world order?
Moderator
Daniil Bisslinger,
Director General, Directorate of the World Youth Festival
Panellists
Khalid Al Mulla,
Head of Research and Development, Al Mulla Group
Vicente Barrientos,
Chairman (President), Coordination Council of the Joint Center for Business Cooperation "BRICS"
Igor Dodon,
Chairman, Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova
Maria Zakharova,
Director, Department of Information and the Press, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Karin Kneissl,
Head, Center G.O.R.K.I. (Geopolitical Observatory for Russia’s Key Issues) SPbU; Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria (2017–2019)
Sergei Pospelov,
Executive Secretary, Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
Nimnual Pyewtchogngam,
Chairman, Committee of the Joint International Chamber of Commerce of the Kingdom of Thailand
Thumelo Ramaphosa,
CEO, Studex Group
Kirill Shamalov,
CEO, Ladoga Menedzhment
Kristofer Duglas Emms,
Head of Brokerage Division, LM Investments