The European Union, Eurasian Economic Union and the Belt and Road: Perceptions, practices and risks in Eurasia
conference proceedings with the title “The European Union, Eurasian Economic Union and the Belt and Road: Perceptions practices and risks in Eurasia” is published within the framework of the Jean Monnet Network Project “The EU and the EEU: Between Conflict and Competition, Convergence and Cooperation” (EUCON). The aim of this project co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme is to explore the complexity of relations between the European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union. When the project was launched in October 2020, the global geopolitical context was different. Even though the causes and patterns of today’s conflict between Russia and the West could be observed more and more clearly step by step since the mid-2000s and relations between the collective West and Russia had gradually deteriorated since then, the ties had not yet been broken. 24 February 2022 marks a point of no return in international relations. The Russian attack on Ukraine is a critical juncture of global reach, seriously challenging the liberal world order.
While in 1990, the bipolar world order of East-West confrontation ended abruptly, the final consequences of the current events are not yet fully clear. In this constellation, the previous normbased world order dominated by the West, currently disintegrates into new blocks. The most likely scenario is that the future world will be divided by competition and conflict between the West (led by the USA in primary coordination with Great Britain) and non-liberal authoritarian powers, led by a Russian-Chinese axis of collaboration. However, in this context, China, and not Russia will most likely be the dominant power. At the same time, regional powers such as India, Saudi Arabia,
Indonesia, and Turkey (etc.) will wisely use their new opportunities, in many cases against the immediate interests of the West.
These conference proceedings analyse the global changes from different perspectives. They scrutinize their causes, consequences and risk mitigation strategies from an economic, political, and security policy perspective, dealing with the global, regional, and country level. The analysis period covers both the time before the Ukraine war and the time since.
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