The Future of Eurasia: In the Vice between Transatlanticism and Chinese Expansion?
Journal: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Year: 2021

During his third term (2012-2018), Russian President Vladimir Putin stuck to the idea of Eurasia as an autonomous political, geographic and economic place between the Transatlantic alliance and emerging Asia. The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was initially devised as a vehicle of preserving the political, economic and social connections between the majority of former Soviet republics that comprised the territory of Soviet Union and historical realm of Russian Empire. However, the CIS