The Russian World and Neo-Eurasianism
Journal: Czech Journal of International Relations
Year: 2017

Borders, sovereignty and power in the post-Soviet space occupy the center of the Russian geopolitical discourse, which has been striving for the whole quarter century from the collapse of the USSR for its political reconceptualization and reterritorialization. Two key civilizationist concepts, the Russian World and neo-Eurasianism, play prominent roles in the Russian formal, imagined and practical geopolitics. The two concepts have different geneses and accents but also many identical characteri