The Strategy of Eurasianism

What is Eurasianism and is it Russian state policy? This video looks at the strategic assumptions and processes of Eurasianism, synthesizing various ideas made over a 90-year period (which some scholars say aren't even the same ideas) to form a general strategic concept that may be driving Putinist Russia's policy.

Nothing here implies my endorsement of Eurasianism (or any other strategic concept).

Last time I posted on Japan's Grand Strategy, I had about 900 subscribers... now there are 12,000 of you + many other viewers and all I can say is: thank you - for watching and commenting, for putting up with the amateurish production values, for hearing me pontificate on issues that far more informed and powerful people have agonized over. There is much to discover and improve on and I hope you'll continue to get something (entertainment, information, derisive laughter) out of this channel...

Ultimate credit needs to go to the scholars/thinkers whose work I merely summarize and interpret.

All errors are my own.

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Laruelle M. Russian Eurasianism. Johns Hopkins University Press 2008.

*Classical Eurasianism*

Bassin M. "'Classical' Eurasianism and the Geopolitics of Russian Identity". Ab Imperio 2003:2, 2003.

Bassin M; Glebov S (eds). Between Europe and Asia. University of Pittsburgh Press 2015.

*Lev Gumilev*

Titov A. 'Lev Gumilev, Ethnogenesis and Eurasianism'. Doctoral Thesis, University of London 2005.

*Neo-Eurasianism*

Dugin A. Eurasian Mission. Arktos 2014.

Dugin A. 'Fascism Borderless and Red'. 1997.

Dugin A. Last War of the World-Island. Arktos 2018.

Istok R, Jakabova Z. 'Geopolitical Conception of Globalization in the Interpration of Alexander Dugin', The Scale of Globalization. University of Ostrava 2011.

Matern F. 'The Discourse of Civilization in the Works of Russia's New Eurasianists'. Post-Communist Studies Programme Research Paper Feb 2007.

*Eurasianism in Practice*

Bassin M; Pozo G (eds). The Politics of Eurasianism. Rowman & Littlefield International 2017.

Kanet R; Sussex M (eds). Power, Politics and Confrontation in Eurasia. Palgrave Macmillan 2016.

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(Map of Asian Language Families)

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(Turkic Language Maps)

(Putin 2014 EEU 'No Harm' to state sovereignty)

(Russian polling reforeigners)

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