... peer dialogue alone or through EAEU, it has to join a more powerful coalition, which will have more leverage in dealing with Brussels. In other words, the concept of Greater Europe should become and is already becoming for Russia a part of a larger Greater Eurasia concept. The idea of Russia’s pivot to Asia has a long history; they tried to implement it in various periods of history and in several different formats. The results have been mixed; in sum, despite a number of success stories, Russia ...
It does not matter to the rest of the world if Russia has unrealistic dreams about Greater Eurasia and its place in it. It is Russia who will suffer from them
While Russia generally has good bilateral relations with its Asian neighbors, some of Russia’s ideas for future developments are based on fantasy. The most unreal idea is ...
October 10, 2017 in the "Holiday Inn Moscow Lesnaya" hotel an international scientific and practical round table "Greater Eurasia: Challenges and Prospects" was held. The event was organized by the Eurasian Sector, CCEIS, Higher School of Economics. The moderator of the discussion was the head of the sector Yuri Kofner.Representatives from countries such as ...
... East through Syria. Namely, the German government may argue that it represents the views and interests of the large number of Syrian refugees that now reside in the country. A German pivot to the Middle East would be a step towards the consolidation of Greater Eurasia via a Southern corridor.
The context: a new world order is emerging
Elena Alekseenkova:
EU Towards Creating Its Own Eurasian Strategy
The US-dominated world order that grew out of the collapse of the Soviet Union is breaking down: political ...
... trade ties and defence technology transfers – a causal bonanza which modern India woefully ignored in its strategic calculus. Ultimately, the RIC (Russia, India and China) nations may "weaponize" their gold holdings to ring-fence the Greater Eurasian economy from surging exogenous risks. China and Russia are coincidentally among the top three gold producers in the world while China competes with India in terms of annual gold consumption. The myriad potentials of a RIC-based geo-economic ...
... Impact;
Trade Policy Regimes;
Non-Tariff Barriers and Technical Regulations;
Futures of Energy in Eurasia in a Global Context;
Development of Transport and Infrastructure in Eurasia;
Labor Market and Migration across the Eurasian Continent;
EU-EAEU in Greater Eurasia: Long-Term Agenda for Economic Cooperation.
More than 200 recognized scientists, experts, stakeholders and policy-makers from numerous countries and organizations, especially from the EU and EAEU member states, but also from the USA, China,...
On 16 May 2017, Jurij Kofner, director, Center for Eurasian Studies, research fellow, IIASA (Vienna, Austria) gave a presentation at the young experts school "International Cooperation of the Eurasian Economic Union" that took place from 15 to 19 May 2017 at the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in Moscow. The joint organizers of the young experts school were the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) and the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC). The report was titled - "Prospects...
_ Yuri Kofner, director, Center for Eurasian Studies, research fellow, IIASA. Moscow, 14 August 2017.IntroductionOn April 3rd, 2017 the Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Tigran Sargsyan and the President of the Republic of Moldova Igor Dodon signed in Chisinau a Memorandum of Cooperation and Understanding. [1] At the following summit of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in Bishkek on April 14th, 2017 Heads of the Member States of the EAEU welcomed the intention of the...
... War.
Hardly any mainstream Western writer or geopolitical expert is gaming out a worst-case scenario that eerily parallels Erdogan’s Pan-Turkic/Neo-Ottoman fantasies which stretch from the Balkans to Xinjiang – right through the heart of Greater Eurasia. This is redolent of a nuclear game theory denouement worthy of the legendary Herman Kahn himself!
The Nuclear Blackmail
Right after the “coup”, Ankara terminated power supply to the US/NATO Incirlik airbase and quarantined ...
... Obama’s own rhetoric:
“…Asia-Pacific region will continue its economic integration, with or without the United States. We can lead that process, or we can sit on the sidelines and watch prosperity pass us by.”
There you have it. Greater Eurasian autarky is the West’s biggest fear and its existential death knell.
Yet, instead of global accommodation, the West is raising the stakes in the game of international double standards. A US judge can order Iran to pay $10 billion ...
