Traditional West vs. Global East By "Vestnik Kavkaza"

 

Traditional West vs. Global East By "Vestnik Kavkaza"Today is the last day of the Davos economic forum. This year, the Russian delegation was headed by Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, and was composed of Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, ex-Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, businessmen and executives. A separate discussion in Davos was devoted to the economic slowdown in BRICS countries and the decline of investors' interest in them.According to RBC, Arkady Dvorkovich was the only participant at the forum who did not put the blame for domestic economic problems on such external factors as the economic crisis. "Russia is suffering from a poor business environment and cannot have a GDP growth of more than 2% based on the investments we have," Dvorkovich admitted.However, according to a member of the Russian Council on International Affairs, Gleb Ivashentsov, BRICS is increasingly becoming not only a major economic, but also a global political force. This naturally forces the West to counteract, seeking to retain hegemony: "Today, BRICS is not only an economic block or economic union. BRICS is a very big political force. We see that the confrontation between the West and the East has become more acute in the world today. The West, which is increasingly losing its economic positions, is trying to fight the onset of the East. And BRICS is not only the East, it is the global East, because it unites developing, emerging economies on four continents. The significance of the BRICS in the world economy is growing all the time, because already in the next few years, the combined GDP of the BRICS is expected to surpass the combined GDP of the big seven. But the West -the traditional West - does not allow the global East in the face of BRICS to develop fully. That is why BRICS seeks to act in the monetary sphere, attempts to develop its own economic strategy, and acts in almost all areas of democracy at an international level, for example, by providing the UN with a leading role in international affairs, ensuring equality and justice in international political and economic relations."An expert of the National Research BRICS committee, professor of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Federation and leading researcher at the IMEMO (of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Andrei Volodin, believes that we are witnessing a large-scale redistribution of spheres of influence, a reformatting of the world. He noted that "developed" countries which have traditionally had the greatest influence in the world, are strongly resisting inevitable changes, are trying to "preserve" the current situation in which the world has essentially been unipolar. "The golden billion, as it is sometimes called, strongly opposes the fact that it has been replaced by a new, more comprehensive world order, which encompasses all the major and minor countries of the world."According to the expert, BRICS as the source of a different point of view, which is different from the western point of view and which is backed by considerable economic and political influence, has proved its viability and will contribute to the further "de-westernisation" of the world."There are BRICS skeptics, and this is perfectly normal, because every society needs discussions. We have called BRICS a format for a very long time. A format, according to the logic of world history, needs to develop into something more serious and permanent. Some of the decisions taken at the summit of BRICS in Fortaleza demonstrate that an alternative global financial system is being created, which is not against the Western system, but which will work in parallel with it. The Indian experience is very useful in this regrad. There is IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa), in the framework of which the concept of a new, alternative world order has been developing for a long time. And even if we look a little deeper into history, it is fashionable to recall the ideas of Jawaharlal Nehru. So, I think Russia will do everything possible in order to move step by step, bringing the new world order closer, in which the West-centric world, which objectively ceased to exist, will gradually give way to a polycentric world."

 

 

By "Vestnik Kavkaza"

Today is the last day of the Davos economic forum. This year, the Russian delegation was headed by Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, and was composed of Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, ex-Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, businessmen and executives. A separate discussion in Davos was devoted to the economic slowdown in BRICS countries and the decline of investors' interest in them.
According to RBC, Arkady Dvorkovich was the only participant at the forum who did not put the blame for domestic economic problems on such external factors as the economic crisis. "Russia is suffering from a poor business environment and cannot have a GDP growth of more than 2% based on the investments we have," Dvorkovich admitted.
However, according to a member of the Russian Council on International Affairs, Gleb Ivashentsov, BRICS is increasingly becoming not only a major economic, but also a global political force. This naturally forces the West to counteract, seeking to retain hegemony: "Today, BRICS is not only an economic block or economic union. BRICS is a very big political force. We see that the confrontation between the West and the East has become more acute in the world today. The West, which is increasingly losing its economic positions, is trying to fight the onset of the East. And BRICS is not only the East, it is the global East, because it unites developing, emerging economies on four continents. The significance of the BRICS in the world economy is growing all the time, because already in the next few years, the combined GDP of the BRICS is expected to surpass the combined GDP of the big seven. But the West -the traditional West - does not allow the global East in the face of BRICS to develop fully. That is why BRICS seeks to act in the monetary sphere, attempts to develop its own economic strategy, and acts in almost all areas of democracy at an international level, for example, by providing the UN with a leading role in international affairs, ensuring equality and justice in international political and economic relations."
An expert of the National Research BRICS committee, professor of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Federation and leading researcher at the IMEMO (of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Andrei Volodin, believes that we are witnessing a large-scale redistribution of spheres of influence, a reformatting of the world. He noted that "developed" countries which have traditionally had the greatest influence in the world, are strongly resisting inevitable changes, are trying to "preserve" the current situation in which the world has essentially been unipolar. "The golden billion, as it is sometimes called, strongly opposes the fact that it has been replaced by a new, more comprehensive world order, which encompasses all the major and minor countries of the world."According to the expert, BRICS as the source of a different point of view, which is different from the western point of view and which is backed by considerable economic and political influence, has proved its viability and will contribute to the further "de-westernisation" of the world."There are BRICS skeptics, and this is perfectly normal, because every society needs discussions. We have called BRICS a format for a very long time. A format, according to the logic of world history, needs to develop into something more serious and permanent. Some of the decisions taken at the summit of BRICS in Fortaleza demonstrate that an alternative global financial system is being created, which is not against the Western system, but which will work in parallel with it. The Indian experience is very useful in this regrad. There is IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa), in the framework of which the concept of a new, alternative world order has been developing for a long time. And even if we look a little deeper into history, it is fashionable to recall the ideas of Jawaharlal Nehru. So, I think Russia will do everything possible in order to move step by step, bringing the new world order closer, in which the West-centric world, which objectively ceased to exist, will gradually give way to a polycentric world."