... partner demonstrates in every way possible that your relations are not his priority any longer?”.
In my view, there is only one answer to these questions, and it is fairly obvious. It is time to concentrate on implementing the concept of establishing a Greater Eurasia, the most natural and far-sighted today, combining the capacities of the two largest integration projects coexisting on our continent – the EAEU and the EU.
It is worth noting that the EU is taking certain steps in this direction, promoting the project called “Europe and Asia Connectivity”. But, alas, they take a “parochial view” on this very connectivity and “hog the limelight”,...
... transforming the world’s normative landscape and potentially reconfiguring the global geopolitical chessboard.
However, the idea of Greater Eurasia was born out of — and continues to be rooted in — contradictory impulses. These should encourage the Russian ... ... overwhelmingly hostile. On the other hand, Russia’s failure in 2013 to convince Ukraine to join the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) not only resulted in a full-blown crisis of relations with the West, but also implied that Moscow would have to look beyond ...
... European security order in particular and the ‘European project’ in general, without becoming a serious 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 in its search for an effective new model of socioeconomic development — all the while effectively exhausting the potential of its resource ...
... beliefs into question.
Why Russia’s tilt towards Asia will continue
It might sound counterintuitive, but the only plausible way for Russia to get back to Europe today goes through Asia. If Moscow cannot engage EU in a 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 ...
... (EAEU) as the central unifying structure in the regional Eurasian integration network”. “The bilateral Russia-China relations and their strategic stability provide a decisive influence on the successful confluence of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) with the ‘Belt and Road’, and the future formation of the Greater Eurasian Partnership. For Russia, the priority site in Eurasia is the EAEU.”
Luzyanin writes that “strengthening security and economic cooperation in the Eurasian center is the key task of SCO, which expanded from six to eight permanent member ...
... and technology with Eurasian resources and human capital. Only such an alliance can be competitive in the 21st century. 5. In spite of the possible compromises, the interests of modernization, industrialization and integration of the economies of the EAEU Member-States should be a priorit for the EEC. 6. The Lisbon to Vladivostok concept should be seen not as an alternative, but rather as part of the Greater Eurasian Partnership idea.June 2, 2016 at the plenary session of the SPIEF, Vladimir Putin and Nurzultan Nazarbayev officially announced their far-reaching plans that see the Eurasian Economic Union as one of the centers of the formation of a ...
... 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,...
... 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 and challenges of creating a common economic space between the EAEU and the EU". The presentation contained the results of the three-year international research project IIASA "Challenges and Opportunities of Economic Integration within a Wider European and Eurasian Space". According to a report ...
... 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 Republic of Moldova to obtain observer status at the EAEU and instructed the Eurasian Economic Commission to develop and submit to the next session of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council a position paper on the status ...
