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Contents 14
Preface 19
Introduction 23
The geoeconomics of Greater Eurasia 28
Research design 33
1. Theorising geoeconomic strategy for Eurasian integration 45
Introduction 45
What is geoeconomics? 47
Asymmetries and the ‘balance of dependence’ 51
Strategic industries 55
Rationality and liberal delusion of laissez-faire capitalism 57
Bargaining power: regionalism and selective accommodation 64
The geoeconomics of Eurasian connectivity 69
Competing Eurasian connectivity 75
Conclusion 79
Notes 81
2. The rise, decline and potential revival of US geoeconomic power 83
Introduction 83
The rise of US geoeconomics in Eurasia 85
The decline of American geoeconomics 92
Failure to reform after the Cold War: unipolarity by military force 95
The potential for an American geoeconomic revival 104
Bargaining power: from sticks to carrots? 109
Selective accommodation as a wedge strategy 111
Conclusion 115
Notes 117
3. Russia’s failed geoeconomic strategy for a „Greater Europe’ 119
Introduction 119
Yeltsin’s leaning-to-one-side strategy for a Greater Europe 121
Putin’s great power strategy for a Greater Europe 127
Moscow’s embrace of geoeconomics 130
Economic statecraft to escape the energy curse 134
Energy as the main instrument for symmetry in Europe 140
Conclusion 148
Notes 149
4. Russian geoeconomics in a Greater Eurasia 151
Introduction 151
The Geoeconomics of Russia’s new Eurasianism 153
The Russian far east and the imperative of dual integration 158
The physical infrastructure of Russia as a Eurasian state 161
Eurasian energy strategy 162
Energy infrastructure (oil, gas, nuclear, hydro and electricity grids) 163
Transportation infrastructure 168
Mechanisms for cooperation 174
Institutions for a broader Eurasia (SCO and BRICS) 180
Conclusion 183
Note 184
5. Chinese geoeconomics and the Silk Road development strategy 186
Introduction 186
China’s provisional ‘peaceful rise’ 189
China inevitably goes global 192
Asymmetrical and unsustainable interdependence 193
The Silk Road project for a post-Western world 197
The Belt: energy and transportation infrastructure 199
The maritime Silk Road 202
OBOR mechanisms for cooperation 205
Risks to Russia 208
Conclusion 210
6. Russia and China Convergence of the Eurasian core 214
Introduction 214
From fear of geopolitical dominance to a geoeconomic balance of dependence 216
Geoeconomics in Greater Eurasia 220
Convergence of energy, infrastructure and financial policies 224
Energy 224
Transportation infrastructure 226
Financial policy 229
Institutional convergence 232
Conclusion 237
Notes 238
7. Strategic diversity in Northeast Asia Japan and Korea 241
Introduction 241
Japan and Russia at a crossroads 243
The Southern Kuril Islands and US-Japanese ties 245
Japan ‘s interests in Russia ‘s pivot to Asia 251
Russia ‘s interest in reaching a political settlement 254
The end of the status quo: Southern Kurils as a bridge or bastion? 257
Korea and Russia: Eurasian integration for regional stability 259
South Korea and the ‘Eurasia Initiative’ 260
Russia ‘s leaning-to-one-side policy mistake 265
Conclusion 268
8. Connectivity with Southern Eurasia 271
India, Iran and the North-South corridor 271
India 272
Iran 275
The North-South transportation corridor 278
Common institutions with India, Iran (and Pakistan) 284
Southeast Asia: Vietnam as the gateway to ASEAN 286
Southwest Eurasia: economic statecraft with military support 289
Conclusion 295
9. Europe at the periphery of Greater Eurasia 298
Introduction 298
The geoeconomic ascendance of the EU 300
The EU’s geoeconomic decline 304
Conflicting economic development models within the EU 308
Deeper and wider integration in a divisive federalist EU 311
Responding to EE crises: from carrots to sticks 316
The failing geoeconomics of wider Europe 319
The EU’s inability to provide benefits to Russia 322
EU bargaining power in Greater Eurasia 326
Greater Eurasia connectivity as a wedge strategy 330
EU geoeconomic revival through inter-regionalism 334
Conclusion 335
10. Conclusion Towards a new Russian grand strategy 340
Bibliography 350
Index 416