MCC GeoPod: Discovering the Valdai Club - Summary of the 2025 Meeting

This year topic of the Valdai Discussion Club was around the theme of “The Polycentric World: Instructions for Use,” aimed to go beyond merely describing a multipolar world and instead explore how to live in and navigate it.

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The Club brought together more then 140 global participants to debate how international institutions, state behavior, and power dynamics must adapt in a rapidly changing, multipolar era.

Guest speaker: Dr. Misa Djurkovic, Head of MCC-MKI Center for Geopolitics

Moderator: Klementina Kozma, Research Fellow of MCC-MKI Center for Geopolitics