... analysts – at least in Russia – have gone even further and maintain that this new global split has been historically predetermined and unavoidable, being based on ‘objective’ realities. It is often argued that the Atlantic and the Eurasian civilizations have opposed each other from the days immemorial, that ‘land’ powers have always and will always be different from ‘maritime’ powers, that the ‘global continent’ (Eurasia) is the eternal counterweight ...
The fourth global roundtable on the theme “Strengthening energy security and improving governance institutions – Opportunities for cooperation with Eurasia”, which was organised by the
BMW Foundation
with the assistance of the
Earth Security Group
analytical centre, took place from 11-14 June 2015 in Lusławice, Poland.
The discussion was devoted to problems related to Eurasian energy security ...
Twenty years ago Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote that "America's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained," although he viewed this condition as "temporary" (Zbigniew Brzezinski "
The Great Chessboard
", p. 18, in Russian). The geopolitical guru’s prediction about United States’ loss of ...
The Valdai International Discussion Club prepared the analytical
Report titled “Toward the Great Ocean – 3”
. This document evaluates the prospects of Eurasian economic integration in the course of implementation of the “Silk Road Economic Belt” project. A group of experts from the Valdai Club including the representatives of the Higher School of Economics, the Moscow State Institute of ...
On April 13, the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai International Discussion Club has held a conference in Berlin, entitled
Europe and Eurasia: moving toward a new energy security
model
. More than 150 experts discussed the radical changes unfolding in world politics and global energy markets in the 21
st
century.
The conference was opened by Andrei Bystritsky, Chairman of the Board ...
On December 4, 2014, Savoy Hotel in Moscow was the venue of seminar “Eurasia from Different Angles” held by the Russian International Affairs Council and Council of Foreign and Defense Politics (CFDP).
Director of Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies
Timofey Bordachev
and Research Fellow
...
... more resources, and would make its strategic rear in the north even more secure as it deals with the issues south and east of its shores. The result is that the unique position that the United States has held since the 1990s as the dominant power in Eurasia is now history. Symbolically, the Pentagon's quiet departure last month from the Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan closes the book on that era.
Source:
Carnegie Moscow Center
On October 18, 2013 an international conference on “
Global Cooperation in the Era of Eurasia
” took place in Seoul under the auspices of the
Korea Institute for International Economic Policy
. RIAC Director General
Andrei Kortunov
addressed the meeting with a speech on contemporary security issues in Northeast Asia.
The conference ...
In Russia, Eurasia is usually assumed to mean the post-Soviet space. The integration project Moscow has been actively promoting over the past four years is even called the Eurasian Union. However, the interpretation of Eurasia as the territory of the former Russian ...
