Overview
Explores the concept of Eurasianism and its historical revival
Collects a wide range of international scholars to explore the shifting dynamics between Russia, China and central Asian states
Provides context for Russian foreign policy
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book defines Eurasianism, a political idea with a long tradition, for a new century. Historically, Eurasia was depicted as a “third continent” with a geographical and historical space distinctively different from both Europe and Asia. Today, the concept is mobilized by the Russian foreign policy elite to imagine a close relationship with China and indirectly inspires the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative. A Russian-Chinese partnership forms the core of a new Eurasian region, yet Turkey, India, Hungary, Central Asia and the other parts of the supercontinent are also embracing Eurasian concepts. This book is of interest to scholars of Russian and Chinese foreign policy, to economists, and to scholars of political thought.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Glenn Diesen is Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN). His research focus is Russia’s Greater Eurasia Initiative as a geoeconomic and conservative concept. Diesen’s latest books are EU and NATO relations with Russia: After the collapse of the Soviet Union (2015); Russia’s Geoeconomic Strategy for a Greater Eurasia (2017); The Decay of Western Civilisation and Resurgence of Russia: Between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft (2018); Russia in a Changing World (2020); Russian Conservatism: Managing Change under Permanent Revolution (2021); and Great Power Politics in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Geoeconomics of Technological Sovereignty (2021).
Alexander Lukin is Head of Department of International Relations and International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism at National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University). He is the author of The Political Culture of the Russian Democrats (Oxford University Press, 2000), The Bear Watches the Dragon: Russia’s Perceptions of China and the Evolution of Russian-Chinese Relations since the Eighteenth Century (M.E.Sharpe, 2003), Grasping Russia with your Mind (with Pavel Lukin, Ves’ Mir, 2015, in Russian), Pivot to Asia: Russia’s Foreign Policy Enters the 21st Century (Vij Books India, 2016), China and Russia: The New Rapprochement (Polity, 2018), Russia: A Thorny Transition from Communism (Vij Books India, 2019), as well as numerous articles and policy papers on international relations, Russian and Chinese politics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Return of Eurasia
Book Subtitle: Continuity and Change
Editors: Glenn Diesen, Alexander Lukin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2179-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2178-9Published: 25 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2181-9Published: 26 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-2179-6Published: 23 July 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 313
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Relations, Philosophy, general, Political Theory, Asian Politics