Essential characteristics of Greater Eurasia
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21146/2713-1483-2023-5-1-47-66Keywords:
Greater Eurasia, international integration, political and military cooperation, local civilizations, human civilization, geopolitics, crisis of monopolar world.Abstract
The article is dedicated to the exploring essential foundation of the idea of Greater Eurasia and tries to conceptualize it. It is revealed why political and economic researches of Greater Eurasia are inevitably tend to appeal to philosophical methodology. Historically gathering of huge territory follows one of the three ways: imperial, military or political union and integration. One of the key parts of the article focuses on dispelling the widespread opinion that Greater Eurasia is an integration project. For this purpose, the integration parameters are outlined and comparative analysis with the European union is performed. In the end author outlines the essence of Greater Eurasia as a project of intercivilization defense alliance axiologically confronting the Western civilization project.