Putin’s Third Term: The Triumph of Eurasianism?
In the midst of the Russian Federation’s 2012 presidential election, Vladimir Putin expressed his support for the establishment of a functioning Eurasian Union by 2015. This article attempts to demonstrate that this Eurasian push, taken in context together with a number of other policies and progra...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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European Institute of Romania
2013-03-01
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| Series: | Romanian Journal of European Affairs |
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| Online Access: | https://rjea.ier.gov.ro/wp-content/uploads/articole/RJEA_2013_vol13_no1_art.2_0.pdf |
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| Summary: | In the midst of the Russian Federation’s 2012 presidential election, Vladimir
Putin expressed his support for the establishment of a functioning Eurasian Union by 2015. This article attempts to demonstrate that this Eurasian push, taken in context together with a number of other policies and programs pursued by Putin and Dmitri Medvedev, reflects a shift in Russian identity politics towards neo-Eurasianism. In doing so, the potential weaknesses of neo-Eurasianism as an identity framework for the whole of Russian society will be highlighted, indicating that the further centralization of political authority with the core (Moscow) will only
exacerbate grievances in the regions of the periphery. |
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| ISSN: | 1582-8271 1841-4273 |