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Russia in Modern Eurasia: The Vision of a Russian Geographer Cover

Russia in Modern Eurasia: The Vision of a Russian Geographer

Open Access
|Dec 2016

Abstract

It is demonstrated that ‘Eurasianism’ as an interdisciplinary scientific doctrine and an object-focused area of geographical social science is at its root, generally complementary to the methodology of Russian (Soviet) socio-economic (human) geography, and corresponds to its research tradition. The geo-economic, geopolitical and geo-cultural transformation of the post-Soviet ‘Eurasian space’ is analysed. The geo-concept of a multipolar ‘Mega-Eurasia’ is proposed and justified. It is emphasised that the effective participation of Russia as one of the dominants of the Eurasian space is associated with the non-admission of an extremely undesirable, harmful scenario for Russia as well as of its possible marginalisation and limitation to the flimsy framework of the ‘Russian world’. A hypothetically possible commitment to only one of the existing global ‘power centres’ is also considered to be a losing one.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/quageo-2016-0035 | Journal eISSN: 2081-6383 | Journal ISSN: 2082-2103
Language: English
Page range: 71 - 79
Submitted on: Dec 15, 2014
Published on: Dec 22, 2016
Published by: Adam Mickiewicz University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
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© 2016 Alexander G. Druzhinin, published by Adam Mickiewicz University
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