Looking West from Russia: The Eurasianist Folly

... fantasies in the entire space of Eurasia, or a greater part of it, have been made more than once. They’ve all failed. Eurasianists who see Russia’s soul in raiders from the eastern steppes have always led their nation to danger and decay.... ... environs, the odds of it taking material shape are close to nought. As for the possibility of creating a pan-European “center of power” over decades to come, I believe that speculations on that score are not utterly groundless. True, amid ...