... to wit, that for a quarter-century Russia has not been able to insert itself adequately into the European (EU) and Atlantic (NATO) structures as a full participant or equal partner. One can debate who bears responsibility for this failure, but the fact ... ... stakeholder in the project. This, in turn, predetermined the country’s turn toward Asia.
Andrey Kortunov:
One More Time on Greater Europe and Greater Eurasia
The second explanation is a systems one. Over this same quarter-century, Russia has not succeeded ...
... substantiated their proposals for establishing a union of the unions, uniting Russia, the European Union and European third countries in a broader integration project, or integration... .... Naturally, they have taken advantage of the wealth of ideological knowledge about Greater Europe. After all, these ideas are not something abstract, speculative, and... ... unanimously put the CE at the top of the list.
However, almost from the very beginning of NATO’s and the EU’s efforts to take the dominant position in the European...
... decided that nothing could get in the way of a Greater Europe being created. Russia, in spite of its internal turmoil in the 1990s, started pursuing an active policy of rapprochement with the rest of Europe. Documents were signed on cooperation with the European Union and NATO and Russia joined the Council of Europe. In the early 21st century, the outlines of a Greater Europe were emerging from Vladivostok to Lisbon.
2. At a certain point, it might have seemed that Greater Europe was only a few steps away. Agreement was reached on the four common spaces within which it was to be created and road maps had been ...
