Sino-Russian rapprochement and Greater Eurasia: From geopolitical pole to international society?
Can international anarchy be stabilized, if not globally, then at least regionally? Those scholars who give a positive answer usually refer to the North Atlantic community which can be categorized as an international society from the viewpoint of the English school. The emergence of such a community...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/18793665211000057 2024-09-15T18:23:27+00:00 Sino-Russian rapprochement and Greater Eurasia: From geopolitical pole to international society? Lukin, Alexander Novikov, Dmitry 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/18793665211000057 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/18793665211000057 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/18793665211000057 en eng SAGE Publications https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Journal of Eurasian Studies volume 12, issue 1, page 28-45 ISSN 1879-3665 1879-3673 journal-article 2021 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/18793665211000057 2024-07-29T04:25:41Z Can international anarchy be stabilized, if not globally, then at least regionally? Those scholars who give a positive answer usually refer to the North Atlantic community which can be categorized as an international society from the viewpoint of the English school. The emergence of such a community outside the West is traditionally considered hardly possible. However, this article argues that it may already be emerging in Eurasia, with Russia and China being the key drivers of this trend. In the past few years, these two powers have put forward a number of major initiatives aimed at developing transport networks and logistics, and deepening economic and institutional ties between different parts of the continent. These include but are not limited to Eurasian Economic Union, supported by Russia, and China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Together, Moscow and Beijing began to form a new platform for security and economic cooperation “from Kaliningrad to Shanghai”—the community of Greater Eurasia. Based on the analysis of the geopolitical logic of these initiatives, this article suggests that a new, non-Western international society may be forming in Eurasia among the states with different political systems and cultures, but common geopolitical aims and fears. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic SAGE Publications Journal of Eurasian Studies 12 1 28 45 |
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Can international anarchy be stabilized, if not globally, then at least regionally? Those scholars who give a positive answer usually refer to the North Atlantic community which can be categorized as an international society from the viewpoint of the English school. The emergence of such a community outside the West is traditionally considered hardly possible. However, this article argues that it may already be emerging in Eurasia, with Russia and China being the key drivers of this trend. In the past few years, these two powers have put forward a number of major initiatives aimed at developing transport networks and logistics, and deepening economic and institutional ties between different parts of the continent. These include but are not limited to Eurasian Economic Union, supported by Russia, and China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Together, Moscow and Beijing began to form a new platform for security and economic cooperation “from Kaliningrad to Shanghai”—the community of Greater Eurasia. Based on the analysis of the geopolitical logic of these initiatives, this article suggests that a new, non-Western international society may be forming in Eurasia among the states with different political systems and cultures, but common geopolitical aims and fears. |
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