Thesis by Major Seth Horrell, submitted to the faculty of the National Intelligence University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science of Strategic Intelligence.
Eurasianism, a century old theory, has been resurrected and adapted to counter Western values. The movement’s principals, seeking to legitimize its ideals, portray their pursuit of Eurasianist ideology as humanitarian advocacy, ostensibly to aid the 330 million people who speak the Russian language.3 Presented as a Christian, traditional, conservative alternative to liberalism, Neo-Eurasianists promote and embrace Kremlin interventions among the nations they consider uniquely Russian. This thesis seeks to determine the level of influence that the philosophy known as Eurasianism has on Russian national security decision making. It will analyze four subject “streams”—religion, economics, political, and military—that contextualize the discussion of Russia’s contemporary strategic objectives exploring Eurasianism’s influence on those “streams.” The focus of this analysis is to search for indications of where those Eurasianism-related “streams” converge and determine the influence of that nexus upon Russia’s national security.
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