...Alexander Libman; Anastassia Obydenkova This article serves as an introduction to the special issue devoted to historical continuities in Eurasia and different conceptualizations of the communist legacies. It highlights the main research challenges the special issue deals with and how they fit...

... International relations Statehood De facto states Eurasia There is a paradox underlying the international engagement of de facto states and their representative offices abroad: On the one hand, lack of recognition complicates their opportunities for international engagement. On the other hand...

... by the Regents of the University of California 2020 energy natural gas EAEU Sino-Russian relations Eurasia Despite early skepticism, China’s relations with the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) have developed positively and led to a formal agreement just four years after the EAEU’s...

... The Regents of the University of California Kalmyks Nomads Nation-destroying Russia Eurasia Nation-destroying Russia Eurasia ities f stat residing within its territorial borders. The claims to the right of nomadic nationhood, sovereignty, and territoriality are not the amics of nomadic e process...

...Henry E. Hale What impact have Eurasia’s 2003–2005 “colored revolutions” had on the state of democracy and autocracy in the region? The logic of patronal presidentialism, a set of institutions common to post-Soviet countries, suggests that the revolutions are at root succession struggles more than...

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...A.P. Tsygankov This essay assumes the significance of spatial imagination in shaping the political and cultural boundaries of the post-Soviet Eurasia and reviews the newly emerged geopolitical arguments in Russia. Rather than perceiving Eurasianist views in Russia as relatively homogeneous, I argue...