For much of modern history, Eurasia has been viewed as a contested geopolitical space rather than a coherent strategic community. Great powers have competed across their vast landmasses, while regional states have often found themselves navigating rival alliances and external interventions. Today, Russia is advancing a different vision. Through its concept of the Greater Eurasian Partnership, Moscow seeks to replace fragmented geopolitical competition with a continental order built on regional connectivity, economic integration, strategic autonomy, and indigenous security mechanisms. More than a foreign policy slogan, Greater Eurasianism has become the organising principle of Russia's contemporary engagement with Asia.

At the heart of this vision lies a simple proposition: the future security and prosperity of Eurasia should be determined by Eurasian states themselves rather than by extra-regional powers. It seeks to connect existing institutions, including the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), BRICS, and emerging transport corridors into a flexible framework capable of linking Europe, Central Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific. The objective is not to create another military bloc but to establish a continental architecture where trade, infrastructure, energy, and collective security reinforce one another.

The withdrawal of Western forces from Afghanistan fundamentally altered this strategic landscape. Rather than viewing the end of the Western military presence as merely the conclusion of a twenty-year conflict, Moscow interpreted it as the beginning of a........

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