Andrea Turi ha intervistato Leonid Savin, analista geopolitico, caporedattore di Geopolitica.ru, fondatore e caporedattore del Journal of Eurasian Affairs, capo dell’amministrazione del “movimento eurasiatico” internazionale, autore del libro La nuova arte della guerra (Idrovolante Edizioni). La seguente intervista è servita per la redazione dell’articolo L’Asia nel mondo postpandemico pubblicata sul sito della rivista Eurasia. Andrea Turi interviewed Leonid Savin, geopolitical analyst, editor-in-chief of Geopolitica.ru, founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Eurasian Affairs, head of the administration of the international “Eurasian movement”, author of various books. The following interview was used for the drafting of the article Asia in the post-pandemic world published on the Eurasia magazine website. Mr. Savin thank you for your willingness to participate in this sort of round table on the future of Asia in the international scenario after the pandemic emergency. We will mainly deal with the Russian Federation with you. First, however, I ask you: what world do you imagine after the CoronaVirus? From geopolitical point of view current pandemic of COVID-19 is just one more element in the frame of the reconfiguration of the world order. And it seems very effective if to speak about economies, trade chains, industrial sector, etc. Many are aware about the new horizons of the international system and collapse of liberalism. Unfortunately we see just now that few oligarchs (mostly in the US) have rise of the wealth during the lock-down when whole nations over the globe have suffered of the decrease. Should we recognize it as clear pattern of globalization? Probably yes. And plutocracy will survive so we can’t speak about end of the capitalism or neoliberal hegemony after coronavirus. Anyway I hope that during this crisis some business groups and national entities in many countries who are followers of the idea sovereign powers have experienced well and started (or will start) necessary actions. In other hand after restrictions and efforts of the governments of different countries there will be more suspicious atmosphere both inside the countries and for outsiders. Lets remember how France grabbed sanitary masks sent as transit via this country. Local communes, especially those effected by pandemic or/and state control will try to regain own rights and freedoms. Not forget about followers of religions who see the coronavirus pandemic as certain sign. These efforts will lead to new international nets of solidarity as well new type of borders inside our minds. Another important lesson is rise of counter-consumerism. Many people understood that they were engaged and framed by contemporary capitalist system but human is something more than just user of services and eater of products (in all senses). Lets see how it will be developed. Let’s talk about Russian Federation. How will Russia emerge from this emergency instead? I mean on the economic, social, political and for what concerns its international image. I think and sure that Russia started to deal with pandemic in late term. But better later than never. Regime of lock-down manifested some vulnerabilities of the health care system as well as...
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As we know, dialectical materialism indicated that: materials determine the consciousness, social existence determines social consciousness. Thus, the reality of life will actually formulate the program and content of our training. Anghen said: the requirements of reality is as valuable as dozens universities’ teachings. This is truly correct to Vietnam. It was the real life requirements of the society that has spurred the renewal process in Vietnam, not because any single university introduced this idea. Training based on mandatory requirements and provide rooms for training institutions to adjust and change the programs, methodologies, objectives as well as subjective… will make universities more adaptable. Training based on the needs is also facilitating the competition among training institutions: To response to the demand of the society, the demand of those enterprise in need of employees … there will be more human resources providers, therefore, a higher quality of human resource will be available. According to a study the quality of education in Vietnam is not homogeneous1: quality of schools and teachers is not homogeneous in different training institutions. Even in the same university, quality of lecturers also differs from one to another. The selection of students has different difficulties. So what we need to do is to create competition in education sector. Recently, training based on society’s demand in Vietnam has been raised and discussed exactly. Since 2008, the Government, the Ministry of Education and Training, the Universities have organized many seminars on this topic. This is an important national issue. However, the definition of training based on society’s demand remains a big unanswered question. How universities could know the demands of the society for each profession in order not be exceeding or in a shortage situations ; what type of human resource would the society need and how is their qualities… are still the problems need to be further discussed. Although there are different opinions, however, most agree that as Vietnam has switched to socialist-oriented market economy, the training based on society’s demand becomes more urgent than ever, and play a vital role in our country’s education. From economic point of view, as the he society is transitioning from old-fashioned agriculture to modern industrial production, the demand for knowledge and management is increasing high, the training based on the society’ and economy requirements are becoming necessary than ever. As the country moved into the market mechanism, the universities have started a policy of the training based on what the social needs, not on what the school posses. However, what and how much the society needs remain unknown even to the Ministry of Education and Training. Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan said that in Vietnam the forecasting and estimation have not done quite well, there is not been a good strategy on human resources, the provision of labors is imbalanced. One thing should be noted is that training based on the demands of different sectors even not yet be touched upon. Therefore, workshops on this issue is needed. Reality...