Geopolitics

“By no means did this revanchist discourse begin under Vladimir Putin’s leadership since 1999 – it started in the 1990s immediately after the end of the USSR.”

“By no means did this revanchist discourse begin under Vladimir Putin’s leadership since 1999 – it started in the 1990s immediately after the end of the USSR.”
https://www.eurozine.com/russias-dreams-of-re-union/

“In the post-Soviet period, increasing attention has been paid to so-called Neo-Eurasianism, whose best-known exponent in Russia and abroad was, and remains, Alexander Dugin. His book The Foundations of Geopolitics (1997) achieved the status of a standard work – despite (or maybe because of) the sometimes bizarre geopolitical fantasies presented there – and was used as a textbook in Russian universities and military academies. Dugin imagined a ‘new Eurasian empire’ or a ‘great Russian empire’ that would become a ‘super superstate’ and according to geopolitical logic, he argued, should ‘strategically and spatially surpass the previous variant (the USSR)’. In Dugin’s view, this new Eurasian empire is to be global in perspective. ‘The Russians’ battle for world domination is not yet over’, he wrote.”