Большая Евразия в условиях новой «холодной войны»: вызов или возможность?

Международные процессы. 2023. Т. 21. № 4. С. 171–190.

Novikov D., Горенкин К. А.

The Greater Eurasian Partnership project, put forward back in 2016, has become one of Russia's key
initiatives to build its version of a broad regionalism covering a significant part of the continent. The
launch of the Special Military Operation and the deepening of the Russian-Western confrontation has
created and continues to create huge structural changes in the global and regional international system.
It also brings serious adjustments to Russia's foreign policy, its objective capabilities and subjective
perception of its initiatives. The aim of this study is to determine the prospects of the Greater Eurasia
concept under the changing geopolitical conditions of 2016-2022. It provides a brief overview of the
conditions in which Eurasian regionalism developed during the period under review; traces the
development of the Greater Eurasia concept in Russian official and expert discourse, shows how the
ideological content of the initiative developed, how the initially widely interpreted concept crystallised;
considers the achievements in the implementation of the concept, among which the most prominent is the
"narrative expansion" on various international platforms, including not only within the framework of the
EAEU promoted by Russia, but also within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union. In order to
fulfil the objectives of this study, the authors relied on the analysis of statements of public figures of the
Russian Federation and other states at international events and publicist literature, analytical articles in
scientific journals and press, official documents and statements of international organisations. The main
conclusion of the study is the ambiguity of the situation in which the concept of Greater Eurasia has found
itself under conditions of increasing geopolitical confrontation and the relatively modest results of its
implementation in recent years. At the same time, one cannot help but notice that the increasingly
complex conditions can be an incentive for the evolution and concretisation of the concept, as well as the
adaptation of the foreign policy leadership's approach to its implementation. Thus, we can say that despite
the difficult conditions, the concept can still claim to be a great future.

Keywords: международная безопасность, международное сообщество, внешняя политика России, ШОС, Большая Евразия, евразийский регионализм, геостратегия

Publication based on the results of: Conceptualization of cycles of geopolitical and geo-economic patterns (2024)