Outstanding quotes from SPIEF 2019: Forum participants on international relations

The report by the EDB Centre for Integration Studies presents an analysis of the impact that international freight traffic barriers have on logistics, transit potential, and development of transport corridors traversing EAEU member states.

The report by UNCTAD examines how recent policy trends and practices, mainly those under the African Continental Free Trade Area, will impact prospects for more inclusive growth, given increasing inequalities both between and within countries in the region and the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This information report was prepared by IRIAS and the Institute for Economic Strategies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) following the international strategic foresight session The Economy of Trust as the Key Driver of Integration in Greater Eurasia, held as part of SPIEF 2018. The foresight session was focused on forming an economy of trust as the key driver of integration in Greater Eurasia.

The fifth issue of the annual report, prepared jointly by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of International Studies of the Fudan University, offers the shared vision of Russian and Chinese experts in international affairs for continued collaboration between Russia and China in 2018 and the first quarter of 2019.