Putin’s Vision for Eurasian Security Architecture: Multipolarity, Security, and Redefining Order

The Eurasian landmass needs local solutions to its indigenous problems, and needs indivisible security instead of zero-sum security. The Eurasian Security Architecture aims to address this basic need.

The highlights of Eurasian Security Architecture

On 18 February 2025, the Russian Permanent Representative Ambassador Gennady Gatilov to the UN in Geneva, gave a detailed statement on the Eurasian Security Architecture. Moscow intends not to imitate the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) by creating a single military alliance with a definite command and a collective defence commitment. Instead, Moscow wants to use a flexible, modular and networked architecture. Current organizations can communicate and cooperate with one another through multiple mechanisms, bilateral agreements, and agreements to address specific issues. It is thought that Eurasia’s diversity in politics and strategy will not allow Eurasia to be controlled with one type of institution. A continent that contains Russia, China, India, Türkiye, Iran, and the Gulf States along with a significant portion of Europe cannot be brought under a single security system. Thus, a networked architecture may provide a better solution than a rigid alliance system.

The best aspect of the proposal is that it emphasizes the attitude of having regional ownership. Russia describes this attitude as “Eurasian solutions to Eurasian problems,” and believes that it is the responsibility of the countries in Eurasia to control their own security. This attitude is in line with the concerns of many emerging countries about the distribution of authority in the international system. China, India, Türkiye and Iran and many of the countries in the Global South are focusing more on sovereignty, and on achieving strategic autonomy and more opportunities in the international governance. The attractiveness of the Eurasian idea is based on changes in structures that Moscow has not controlled.........

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