V International Conference
'The World Majority in New Realities: the Regional Dimension'

Conference Opening Ceremony

Plenary report 'Russia's Policy on the World Majority'

Sergey A. Karaganov, Professor, Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Academic Supervisor of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Dmitry Trenin, Research Professor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University, Leading Researcher at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Coffee Break

Section 1. 'Middle East Countries and the New Financial and Economic World Order: the Region's Potential, Prospects of Interaction With the Russian Federation'

Moderator: Andrey Baklanov

Central topics:

• New world order: how the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries see it, perception of Russian approaches
• Multilateral formats: prospects for interaction of regional states with BRICS, SCO, EAEU
• Trans-regional ties, formation of a new geopolitical space - Asia - Middle East, on the activities of the international expert group on this subject.
• Prospects of interaction of the MENA region countries with the Russian Federation, tasks of the scientific community

Section 2. 'Western Politics and Institutions in New Reality'

Moderator: Alexey Gromyko, Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa

Central topics:

• Economic policies of Western countries and energy co-operation with the World Majority Countries
• National and memory politics in search of identity
• National and regional security strategies in response to the challenges of the reshaping of the world order
• The European Parliament as an institution of Western integration and its future
• The EU's latest foreign policy initiatives in relations with non-Western countries

Section 3. 'Modern Regional Studies: Methodological Issues'

Moderator: Evgeny Kanaev

Central topics:

• Regional studies on the professional chart;
• Regional studies vs other professional training areas (International Relations, World Economy, Asian Studies etc.): a comparison of competences;
• Specific scientific and disciplinary methods of regional studies: Is the synergy of trans-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary methods sufficient?
• Regional studies: prospects for inclusion in the nomenclature of scientific specialties for awarding academic degrees;
• Approaches to regional studies methodology in different countries: what can russian specialists learn?

Coffee Break

Section 4. 'South Asia: Foreign Policy and Economic Priorities'

Moderator: Olga Solodkova

Central topics:

• India's economic growth
• India's foreign policy in South Asia
• Pakistan's growing role in international relations

Section 5. 'Consolidation or Fragmentation of the "World Majority"? Experience of South-East Asia'

Moderator: Evgeny Kanaev

Central topics:

• The ASEAN Community Project 2025: should we expect an extension? 
• ASEAN-centric multilateral dialogue: maintaining or losing relevance to the region and the world?
• ASEAN and its dialogue partners in the face of escalating international tensions

Section 6. 'North-East Asia (China, North and South Korea, Japan, Mongolia): Regional Asymmetries, Challenges and Security Resources'

Moderator: Sergey Luzyanin

Central topics:

• Russia's Pivot to the East: East Asian dimension
• Specifics of regional and global rise of the People's Republic of China
• Security issues in the region: challenges and threats
• Korean Peninsula: opportunities and deadlocks of denuclearisation
• Russia-Mongolia-China Triangle: Geopolitical and economic aspects.