Since the USSR’s dissolution, Russia has experienced a continuous debate about its national identity and great power status. To create an alternative national idea, the Kremlin has adapted its Eurasianist rhetoric to ideological demands of the public as well as strategic implications of anti-globalist foreign policy. However, its moves can be largely explained through political opportunism.
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While both the relations between China and Russia as well as the Central Asian states are largely depending on energy investments from the Chinese side, the economic and political background varies. This analysis assesses the various obstacles to a sustainable cooperation between the countries.
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Die kasachische Hauptstadt Astana hat seit der Unabhängigket von der Sowjetunion eine ganz eigene dynamische Architektur entwickelt, doch ein Ende des politisch-ideologischen Bau-Booms in der Steppe ist absehbar.
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