Prospects for Strengthening the Geopolitical Contours of the Union State
https://doi.org/10.22394/2073-2929-2025-01-19-31
EDN: JNENYU
Abstract
This work is devoted to the analysis of the results of 25 years of the formation of the Union State.
Aim and tasks. To define the geopolitical dimension of the Union State as an integration project of Russia and the Republic of Belarus. To study the main results of the Union State’s activities over 25 years of its formation. To analyze the main directions of development of the single geopolitical space of the Union State. To assess the geopolitical determinants of the integration association of Russia and the Republic of Belarus.
Methods. Research of publications and other materials on the topic under study based on the geopolitical paradigm, methods of analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, qualitative content analysis.
Results. The study revealed the nature of the geopolitical subjectivity of the Union State in the new geopolitical configuration in Europe.
Conclusions. The Union State is acquiring the image of a full-fledged constructor of the post-Soviet geopolitical space after its erosion. It has become an indicator of the understanding by Russian and Belarusian society of the level of their geopolitical self-identification and awareness of the geopolitical future of their countries in the new geopolitical and geoeconomic architecture of the modern world.
About the Authors
I. F. Kefelia
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (North-West Institute of Management)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Igor F. Kefelia, Professor, Honored Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Leading Researcher, expert of the RAS, Professor of the School, Professor of Department
Higher School of International Relations; Department of social security
Saint Petersburg
V. G. Kogut
Secretariat of the Council of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States
Belarus
Belarus
Victor G. Kogut, Deputy Secretary-General of the Council of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly, Plenipotentiary Representative of the National Assembly of the Republic, PhD in Political Sciences, Associate Professor
Minsk
G. N. Nuryshev
St. Petersburg State University of Economics
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Gennady N. Nuryshev, Professor, Doctor of Science (Political Sciences
Saint Petersburg
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Kefelia I.F., Kogut V.G., Nuryshev G.N. Prospects for Strengthening the Geopolitical Contours of the Union State. EURASIAN INTEGRATION: economics, law, politics. 2025;19(1):19-31. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22394/2073-2929-2025-01-19-31. EDN: JNENYU
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