Current Phase of Eurasia Transformation
Keywords:
Central Asia, the Caucasus region (the South Caucasus), Ukraine, Moldova, subregions, evolution models, national security, peripheral-contact area, EurasiaAbstract
Since the collapse of the USSR, Eurasia has been involved into some centrifugal processes of establishing integrated structures and altering the development vector. The system “regional Center – regional Periphery” has been imbalanced. The process of restructuring has been progressively becoming spontaneous. It is possible to enhance the formation of three models of the evolution of the Eurasian region, namely, the hegemony model, the model of intermediate ethno-cultural entities and the model of general civilized community. The relationship with such subregions as Moldova, Ukraine, the Caucasus region (the South Caucasus) and Central Asia is the most complicated and specified for the Russian Federation.
