The Eurasian Project and Europe ― Regional Discontinuities and Geopolitics

Considering the Eurasian project from a variety of historical, philosophical, political, economic and geo-political perspectives, this volume traces the birth, evolution and re-birth of Eurasian regionalism. It examines the historical and philosophical background of Eurasia and addresses the discursive construction of the Eurasian concept in the contemporary period, contrasting and comparing with the formation of the European Union.

Looking afresh at the politics and economics of Eurasian integration in a global context, this book offers a highly topical assessment of the region's presence in the ideological agendas and nation-building programmes of its member states – Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus – and its geo-strategic relevance in world politics.

David Lane is currently an Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, previously he was Professor of Sociology at Birmingham University. His most recent work is The Capitalist Transformation of State Socialism: The making and breaking of state socialist society and what followed. He has written widely on socialism and post socialism, as well as on elites and classes. His current interest is in employment and unemployment.

Dr. Vsevolod Samokhvalov, studied international relations in Odessa (Ukraine), Athens (Greece) and Cambridge (UK). He held a number of appointments in European think-tanks and universities in Belgium, France, Greece and Romania. He was also BBC correspondent for Cyprus and Greece, and Eurasian Affairs analyst for New Europe Weekly in Brussels. His forthcoming book is 'Russia, Europe, Greatness and the Black Sea: Constructivist Analysis of Russian-European interaction in the conflict resolution in the Black Sea region'.