More: Eurasia
Flying Under the Radar: Iranian Alternatives to Suez and Belt and Road
As Eurasia’s geopolitical sands shift, Iran is touting a sea and rail hook-up involving Iranian, Russian, and Indian ports that would link the sub-continent...
The Return to the Era of Spheres of Influence in Eurasia
The end of the Cold War brought hope to the West that the world had evolved past the concept of spheres of influence. No...
The Chinese View of Western-Russia Competition
The interrelation of Russia, China, and the West (primarily the US) will largely dictate how Eurasia develops in the coming decades. Will the super-continent...
The ‘Eurasian Corridor’: CPEC – Catalyzing Regional Connectivity and Integration
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) promises not only unprecedented dividends for development and progress of the two partner nations, but it is destined to be...
Alexander’s Dugin’s Neo Eurasianism in Putin’s Russia
The sheer vacuum created in the ideological realm of Russia after it deviated from Communist ideology in the backdrop of Perestroika became a prime...
Russia’s Shift from “Greater Europe” to “Greater Asia”
When the Ukraine crisis broke out in 2014, political analysts pointed
out, quite rightly, that Russia without Ukraine would become more Asian. With
the country’s borders...
Putin’s energy: Which oil and gas projects might push geopolitical confrontation in Eurasia?
The
West does not like the energy policy of Russia. And Putin, as its ideologist. “Aggressive,” “annexing,”
“Russian-style” – labels like these are in spades. But...
South Caucasus’ Role will be overshadowed by the US-Russia Competition Elsewhere in Eurasia
Recent geopolitical
developments in Eurasia indicate that the South Caucasus’ relative importance
could be overshadowed by West-Russia competition over Belarus, Ukraine and
Central Asia. This trend was...
FTA with EAEU, a turning point for Iran’s trade
After several years of negotiations, Iran and Eurasian Economic Union
(EAEU) finally reached a free trade agreement (FTA) in 2018 based on which
about 862 commodity...
Principal Trends in the Development of Eurasian Integration
The development of the Eurasian Economic Union in 2019
was once again marked by deepening integration and the expansion of global
trade and economic relations. Emerging...