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The ‘civilizational’ and particularly ‘Eurasianist’ discourse has recently become a firmly integral part of the official political rhetoric in such countries as Russia, Kazakhstan and, perhaps to a lesser extent, Belarus. In fact, the words seem to match the deeds: the proposed Eurasian economic integration appears to be a decisive step in implementing this discourse, and seems to fit quite well with the theorizing of Samuel L. Huntington, who suggested that the most likely scenario for the reconstitution of international relations after the collapse of the Soviet Union would be a rise in the role of civilizational identities.
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Shkaratan, O. (2015). The Eurasian Vector of Russia’s Development. In: Lane, D., Samokhvalov, V. (eds) The Eurasian Project and Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137472960_2
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