Strategy&Future

Ridvan Bari Urcosta and Marek Budzisz of Warsaw based Strategy&Future talk to Sergei Guriev, Professor of economics at the Instituts d’études politiques in Paris (Sciences Po), about the future of Russian economy, on Alexei Navalny and Sputnik V.

The Last 21 Years: (2)012

The Last 21 Years: (2)011

Europe is part of “Western civilisation”, to which, apart from Europe itself, it is customary to include all its (regrettably, usually evolved as a result of rape) “children”: primarily North America, with the United States as a global power, and Latin America, with Brazil growing in importance in the global puzzle, as well as the area of ​​Australia and Oceania.

On 4th January 2010, the Burj Khalifa opened in Dubai. At 828 metres, it was the world’s tallest building. In fact, all of the world’s seven-tallest buildings were now located in Asia: Taipei 101 (508 metres, 2004); World Financial Center, Shanghai (492 metres, 2008); International Commerce Centre, Hong Kong (484 metres, 2010); Petronas Towers 1 and 2, Kuala Lumpur (452 metres, 1998); and Zifeng Tower, Nanjing (450 metres, 2010). “We are entering a completely new era of world history,” said Kishore Mahbubani at a lecture at the St. Gallen Symposium. “You’re seeing the end of what I call Western domination of world history but I hasten to add that the end of Western domination of world history is not the end of the West.

Poland in Great Power Competition – Jacek Bartosiak, Nicholas Myers and Zbigniew Pisarski debate the video presentation describing the interactions Poland had with US, China and Russia in 2019-2020.

The phrase “up in the air” perfectly captures the world at the beginning of 2009 (and, arguably, ever since). So, we have this from Cambridge English Dictionary: “If a matter is up in the air, it is uncertain, often because other matters have to be decided first.” This from Collins Dictionary: “If you say that a decision or a situation is up in the air, you mean that it has not yet been completely settled or planned.” And this from the Macmillan Dictionary: “if a plan is up in the air, you have not yet decided what will happen.”

Ridvan Bari Urcosta and Marek Budzisz talk to Professor Vladislav Inozemtsev, a Russian economist and director and founder of the Center for Post-Industrial Studies in Moscow, Senior Associate (Non-Resident) at CSIS, on Putin’s Russia, Navalny, Sputnik-V, Russian Economy and the future of Poland.

Taipei 101 — named after its 101 floors — opened on 31st December 2004, having earlier in the year been recognised as the world’s tallest skyscraper at 509.2 m (spire), 449.2 m (roof height). Under President Chen Shui-bian of the nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), who was re-elected in March 2004 after a four-year term, the Republic of China (Taiwan) had begun to distance itself from the PRC.