Russia–UAE Business Dialogue. The new economics of resilience: polycentricity and interconnectedness.

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The COVID pandemic, the 2022 energy shock, the Red Sealogistics disruptions, the 2025 tariff escalation, and the 2026 destabilizationin the Middle East are five fundamentally different crises that exposed thesame structural vulnerability: overconcentration of supply chains, paymentsystems, and market access infrastructure.

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In a continuous polycrisis, the oldlogic of specialization and efficiency maximization has proved brittle. A newlogic demands distributed architectures: multiple production centres, tradecorridors, settlement currencies, and investment structures.

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What are the keystructural inefficiencies of today's global economy and their consequences?What should an alternative architecture look like? What role can Russia and theUAE play to convert bilateral cooperation into a mechanism of collectiveresilience?

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