Russia's Geoeconomic Strategy for a Greater Eurasia (Rethinking Asia and International Relations)

Graeme Gill, University of Sydney"This timely and thoughtful volume addresses a major and often neglected phenomenon in the current international system - the emergence of Greater Eurasia. If you want to know about this region and how it may develop, this is the book for you." - Prof. Alexander Lukin, National Research University Higher School of Economics. Richard Sakwa, University of Kent"Glenn Diesen has given us a sophisticated and compelling analysis of Eurasian geoeconomics and geopolitics, and of Russia's central part in this region. "A brilliant analysis of the major shift in the Eurasian b

Eurasian integration offers Russia the opportunity to address this ‘overreliance’ on the West by using the Russia’s position as a Eurasian state to advance its influence in Europe. Moscow’s ‘Greater Europe’ ambition of the previous decades produced a failed Western-centric foreign policy culminating in excessive dependence on the West. Instead of constructing Gorbachev’s ‘Common European Home’, the ‘leaning-to-one-side’ approach deprived Russia of the market value and leverage needed to negotiate a more favourable and inclusive Europe. Offering an account steeped in Russian economic statecraft and power politics, this book offers a rare glimpse into the dominant narratives of Russian strategic culture. Moscow has progressively replaced geopolitics with geoeconomics as power is recognised to derive from the state’s ability to establish a privileged position in strategic markets and transportation corridors. The author offers discussion both on Russian responses and adaptations to the current power transition and the ways in which the economic initiatives promoted by Moscow in its projec

Dr Glenn Diesen is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Western Sydney University and an affiliate at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Dr Diesen specialises in Russia’s approach to European and Eurasian integration, and the dynamics between the two. This includes central topics such as ideology, energy and geoeconomics. He is the author of EU and NATO Relations with Russia, Routledge 2015.