РОССИЙСКИЙ ПОДХОД К СУВЕРЕНИТЕТУ И ЕГО РОЛЬ В КОНЦЕПТЕ СООБЩЕСТВА БОЛЬШОЙ ЕВРАЗИИ

Abstract

Over the last twenty years Russian approach towards sovereignty has underwent significant changes and has become more rigid and defined. After numerous attempts to integrate into the West, Russia began to acquire its own identity, but no longer as an appendage of Europe, which was not supposed to be reckoned with as an equal, but as a central Eurasian power, acting not only as a balancing county between East and West, but also as the security provider in the Eurasian region. In this regard, the article examines how the Russian approach towards sovereignty fits into the concept of the Greater Eurasian community. From this point of view, the Greater Eurasian Partnership, which is a continuation of Moscow’s policy of revising the world order that has developed after the end of the Cold War, has not only geopolitical and geo-economic aspects, but also cultural and normative ones: the emergence of a community of countries where relations are built on mutual respect for the sovereignty of each other. It is sovereignty, according to the authors, that underlies both the concept of Greater Eurasia and other Russian foreign policy initiatives in this direction.