CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING NEO-EURASIANISM AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING NEO-EURASIANISM AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Summary/Abstract: CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN THOUGHT. WE NOTICE THAT MANY OF THE EVENTS WITH A NEOEURASIAN IDEOLOGICAL SUBSTRATUM OCCUR FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM AND WITH THE COMING TO POWER OF VLADIMIR PUTIN. IT SEEKS TO POSITION RUSSIA AS THE UNDISPUTED GEOPOLITICAL PIVOT BETWEEN THE WEST AND THE EAST. THE PAPER PRESENTS SOME STATEMENTS MADE BY THE RUSSIAN PRESIDENT, EVALUATED BY THE IDEOLOGUE ALEXANDER DUGHIN, AS MARKING THE BEGINNING OF A NEW GEOPOLITICAL APPROACH. CERTAIN RECENT MOMENTS IN THE POLITICAL AND MILITARY FIELD OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION SUPPORT THE HYPOTHESES OF THIS PAPER, REFLECTING VERY WELL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CONCEPT OF NEO-EURASIANISM. IN THE AUTHOR'S OPINION, THE EMERGENCE OF NEO-EURASIANISM IN RUSSIA IS DETERMINED BY THE NEED TO DEFINE AND CONSOLIDATE THE SPHERES OF INFLUENCE. IT IS MAINLY MOTIVATED BY ETHNOCENTRIC SENTIMENTS TO EXTEND ITS SPHERE OF INFLUENCE BEYOND POLITICAL BORDERS AND TO FOSTER FEELINGS OF PROTECTION AND SECURITY. NEO-EURASIANISM MEANS THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FOREIGN POLICY CONSENSUS BASED ON POLITICAL CULTURE AND NATIONAL AWARENESS.

• Details
• Contents