Eurasianism and the Concept of Central Caucaso-Asia

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the Eurasianists presume the creation of “poles of development,” that is, of
economic centers that have a general Eurasian status, as well as a privileged
tax regime. 72
The Eurasianists believe that the countries of the Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS), as well as Serbia, Mongolia, and others, should be
integrated, according to Nursultan Nazarbaev’s terminology, into a
“Eurasian Union” 73 (that is, into a “state-continent” – a Eurasian State) with
a united economy, transportation arteries, united collective security system,
and united system of representative structures. 74 Extending the Russian
borders to include only Ukraine and Belarus is classified as Moderate, that is,
Slavic Eurasianism; while extending the Russian borders to the borders of the
former Soviet Union is considered Extreme, that is, Soviet Eurasianism. 75
There is also a fanciful step-by-step project aimed at forming a so-called
union state of Eurasian Rus. The ambition was to integrate, from 2006 to
2014, not only the CIS countries, but also Albania, Macedonia, Mongolia,
Serbia, Montenegro, and also give the special right of associated membership
to Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Israel, Lebanon, the Baltic countries, Poland,
Syria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Rumania, Turkey, Croatia, the Czech Republic,
the DPRK, and South Korea. 76
For the Eurasianists, the economy should be subordinated to the idea of the
Eurasian State, Eurasian civilization, Eurasian culture. 77 So Eurasianists pay
particular attention to the teachings of the so-called “hetero-orthodox”
economists who regard the economy as a derivative of culture and for whom
historical, cultural-civilizational, spatial, and national factors are of prime
importance in determining the nature of the economy. All the economic
theories of the so-called hetero-orthodox traditions (Eurasianists include such
outstanding economists as Sismondi, List, Keynes, Schumpeter, Schmoller,
Perroux, Gesell, and others among the authors of these traditions) have
72 Ibid., p. 296.
73 Dugin, Evraziyskaia missiia Nursultana Nazarbaeva, p. 86.
74 Dugin, Proekt “Evraziia,” pp. 280-284.
75 O’Loughlin and Talbot, “Where in the World is Russia,” pp. 37-44.
76 Panarin, Informatsionnaia voyna i geopolitika, pp. 539-543.
77 Dugin, “Ekonomicheskie aspekty neoevraziystva,” p. 627.