... expansion of Western alliances.
The economic and political turn to the East has been slow. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, although it has expanded, is in half-slumber, and for almost a year one there have no results of the agreement to pair the Silk Road Economic Belt project and the Eurasian Economic Union. Russian policy remains targeted at the past and this is one of its worst problems. We are still correcting mistakes of the past. The Russian elite has not yet devised a national development strategy, including a proper foreign policy, that would be targeted ...
... main responses to these new circumstances. Potentially, a successful integration might reduce transaction costs between member states and thereby make their economies more efficient. Greater cooperation with China marked another important dimension of Russia's policy. Plans to connect the Silk Road Economic Belt with projects for Eurasian economic integration could make China an important variable in this whole process.
Until Russia’s relations with the West deteriorated, Eurasian integration played second fiddle to its relations ...
... thorny and requires a delicate resolution. As the concentration of militants in northern Afghanistan grows, as more natives of Russia and Central Asia including the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan join the Islamic State, as there are signs of destabilized ... ... will be able to use to address the acute dilemmas. Providing security is also a key condition for carrying out China’s Silk Road Economic Belt project across Central Eurasia.
The discussion also covered the issue of interrelation between the EEU ...
