The anniversary political forum will take stock of five years of work. The international discussion platform Astana Club is convening for its fifth meeting. The next gathering of 50 of the world's top politicians, recognised Eurasian intellectuals and leading experts in international relations is scheduled for 11-12 November 2019 in the capital of Kazakhstan. As usual, the event will be organised by the Institute of World Economics and Politics and the Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Elbasy. The agenda covers pressing security issues and the strategic future of Greater Eurasia. Over five sessions, Club members will discuss the most acute problematic trends in the development of the states and peoples of Eurasia, identify new opportunities for regional cooperation and outline the contours and scenarios of the future. Conceptually, all discussions will focus on the main question: building a new architecture of cooperation in Greater Eurasia. The choice of this topic is driven by the large-scale destruction and degradation of the global institutions that have ensured stability in international relations over the past 70 years. Moreover, the peak of this destruction falls precisely on the current period, as reflected in the collapse of strategic agreements on nuclear security, growing protectionism in the global economy and the escalation of sanctions. Climate deterioration has emerged as a new global threat that has already affected every nation without exception. As a result, strategic uncertainty is growing as to how sustainable our development will be. All these issues call for an honest and open discussion. Participants and the general public will also be presented with the second edition of the analytical ranking "Top 10 Risks for Eurasia in 2020", produced by the Institute of World Economics and Politics. The foresight analysis presented in last year's first edition of the risk ranking proved to be in high demand in practice, and IWEP is preparing a new publication for the next Club meeting. The ranking is the result of research by IWEP experts with the participation of 40 leading international experts. International interest in the Astana Club stems from the fact that this Kazakh discussion platform, established in 2015, has in a short time become a truly global platform that brings together all the key stakeholders of Eurasia to develop common approaches to the most complex issues of our time. In this sense, the Astana Club is a vivid expression of Kazakhstan's multi-vector foreign policy. Over its entire history, more than 200 speakers from 40 countries have taken part in the Club's work, including the USA, China, Russia, Germany, Turkey, the UK, France, Japan, South Korea and others. Over its five-year history, the Astana Club's speakers and headliners have included such well-known politicians and experts as José Manuel Barroso, Mohamed ElBaradei, Ahmet Davutoğlu, Václav Klaus, Hamid Karzai, George Friedman, Ian Morris, Robert Kaplan and many others. The First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Elbasy Nursultan Nazarbayev also takes part in the annual meetings of the Astana Club. It should be noted that the discussions at Astana Club meetings have become an important platform for shaping and promoting the "Greater Eurasian discourse". Each meeting of the Club is devoted to a particular aspect of the newly emerging phenomenon of "Greater Eurasia", which encompasses all the states of Asia and Europe within the Eurasian megacontinent and addresses their interaction in politics, economics and security. The very first meeting of the Astana Club, held in November 2015, examined the geoeconomics of Eurasia. The second meeting discussed the opportunities and challenges of the forthcoming transformations across Eurasia. The third meeting of the Club in 2017 was held under the theme "Greater Eurasia - 2027: Confrontation or Partnership". In 2018, the experts' work at the fourth meeting of the Astana Club centred on the main theme, formulated as "Towards Greater Eurasia: How to Build a Common Future?". The theme of the Club's fifth meeting will be "Greater Eurasia: Towards a New Architecture of Global Cooperation". The Club's expert discussions will focus on the current escalation of the confrontation between the USA, China and Russia, the rise of trade protectionism and populist sentiment, and a new round of escalation in many of the world's hot spots. Particular attention will be paid to shaping the future architecture of cooperation in Eurasia and to finding answers to key global security challenges, such as the global nuclear missile arms race.