... at least a couple of years, if not a couple of decades.
However, imagine for a second that a miracle happens, and the Ukrainian problem is off the table. Would it open a way for a common understanding of the European future and for a consorted EU–Russia effort at building a shared Greater Europe? Most likely, it would not. The Ukrainian conflict, as important as it is, should not overshadow more fundamental divisions between the East and the West; these divisions are not likely to disappear any time soon.
Andrey Kortunov:
Europe and Russia: Four Scenarios for the New Cycle
Diverging visions of the European future
Even during the honeymoon of the Russian-EU cooperation in early 2000s Moscow ...
... Force Position Paper Released
A group of prominent Members and Supporters of the Pan-European
Task Force on Cooperation in Greater Europe
,
including former foreign and defence ministers and senior officials from Russia, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Poland, Germany, Italy and Finland
has joined forces to appeal to the leadership of the countries in the Euro-Atlantic area to
halt the downward spiral in West-Russia relations and manage its risks better through developing a more stable and sustainable security relationship
.
Noting ...
... when Vladimir Putin came to power. They existed long before. But for the longest time, all of us – East and West – tried to smooth them out, tune them down, or even ignore them completely.
The West has always seen the construction of Greater Europe as the expansion of existing western institutions towards the East. That’s why negotiations on Russia–EU cooperation had little to do with finding reasonable compromises. Rather, they were little more than Europe attempting to force Russia to adopt the “rules of the game”. Russia had to play by Europe’s rules, because these ...
Recent developments both in Ukraine and Syria show that international community is making effort to come to terms with Russia on these two stumbling blocks but there is still a lot to be done. European Leadership Network Director
Ian Kearns
has ... ... Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok will either be rehabilitated as part of an improvement in relations between Russia and the West because in my analysis Russia needs the rest of Europe for economic interactivity, capital investment, specific technology ...
Eurasianists who see Russia’s soul in raiders from the eastern steppes have always led their nation to danger and decay. Progress and prosperity have come under leaders who looked West.
KARL MARX once described a situation where the weapon of criticism gives way to criticism by weapon. It’s a remark ... ... proceeded and is still going on, not along the border between Russia and the rest of Europe but inside each individual country of Greater Europe. For instance, there is a discussion of the cultural and civilizational sources of Europeanism—it is worth ...
