Theme

Russia and Eurasia

‘Eurasia’ is a term that covers the former Soviet republics. This is a conflict-ridden area of major importance, not least as regards energy supplies.

The Russian Federation is the dominant country in this region, which includes the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, as well as the trans-Caucasian republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. After the break-up of the Soviet Union, many conflicts have erupted in this area: Abkhazia and South Ossetia battling for independence from Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan seeking control over Nagorno-Karabakh – and Russia and Ukraine in conflict over the Crimean peninsula.

Russia’s foreign policy is a central theme in NUPI’s research on Russia and Eurasia. Also important are energy and economic issues, given Russia’s standing as a major producer of oil and gas. Other priority research fields are ethnicity, nation-building, nationalism and national identity, as well as democracy and human rights.

Source: Store Norske Leksikon and NUPI.

News about Russia and Eurasia

PODCAST: – Putin has no magic mind control powers
24 Jan 2020
- - Endre Stangeby
By blaming Vladimir Putin for everything that we dislike in the West, we will fail to address the real issues, according to Mark Galeotti, author of the book We Need to Talk About Putin.

Diplomati og utenrikspolitikk Security policy Nasjonalisme Russia and Eurasia
Has the West forgotten about Chechnya?
6 Dec 2019
- - Marie Furhovden
PODCAST: Ramzan Kadyrov’s reign in Chechnya has cast a wave of fear and oppression across this Russian republic. What does that mean for the people living there, and for those who have fled the region in fear? And why don’t we talk more about this in the West?

Conflict resolution Human rights Russia and Eurasia Europe
New CADGAT Data Reviews on 261 Belt and Road (BRI) Projects in Central Asia
28 Aug 2019
- - Roman Vakulchuk
One of the main observations from the research is that nobody really knows what a BRI project is and what it is not.

Russia and Eurasia Asia Styring Regional integrasjon Economic growth Internasjonale investeringer Utenrikspolitikk

All news about Russia and Eurasia (total 30)

Publications about Russia and Eurasia

Publication : Academic article
Renewable energy and geopolitics: A review
2020
- - Roman Vakulchuk
- - Indra Overland
This article reviews the literature on the geopolitics of renewable energy. It finds that while the roots of this literature can be traced back to the 1970s and 1980s, most of it has been published from 2010 onwards. The following aggregate conclusions are extracted from the literature: renewable energy...
Security policy Cyber Utenrikspolitikk Russia and Eurasia Energy
Publication : Report
Russia and Europe in memory wars
2020
- Alexei Miller
Russia and Europe are in a state of memory war. How did this come about? Is there a way out of this situation? In order to answer these questions, this report enquires into the dynamics of memory politics in Europe, and then takes a closer look at Russian memory politics.
Russia and Eurasia
Publication : Academic article
Russia in world trade: Between globalism and regionalism
5
- - Arne Melchior
The article examines Russia’s participation in world trade and trade policy, using trade data for 1996–2017 and simulations of a numerical world trade model where Russia is divided into domestic regions. Since the mid-1990s, Russia’s foreign trade has grown much faster than the world average. This was...
International economics Trade Regional integrasjon Russia and Eurasia