THE EURASIAN UNION CONCEPT: POLITICAL OR CIVILIZATIONAL?
Abstract
The author probes deep into the concept of Eurasians, a subject of heated discussions interpreted as an integration attempt in the post-Soviet expanse. He looks at the idea of Eurasians as a civilizational project designed to unify all entities of the geostrategic expanse into a single whole. This multilayered problem cannot be exhaustively analyzed in one or even several dozen articles. Nevertheless, the subject deserves clarification as a target of analysis. The political and economic versus civilizational discourse looks very much like the chicken or the egg dilemma. The author prefers a civilizational discourse, although many will probably disagree with him.
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