🌏 During the first 30 years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the former Soviet republics were like teenagers who graduated school at a time of historical transformation.
As in most cases when classmates meet 30 years after graduation, they learn that nobody turned out to be a massive success or failure, and everyone thinks that they have something to be proud of. Some are sure that they have made it in life and pity their classmates.
Any comparison of the former Soviet republics is bound to be inaccurate, because they are such wildly disparate countries with hardly a common parameter for comparison. They have different foreign policy goals. What is a blessing to some is a curse to others. Sharing its sovereignty with the United States is a dream come true for Estonia. For Russia, this would be a historical catastrophe. How they can be classified?
👉 The authors of a new Valdai report "The Growing Up Romance: Foreign Policy as a Formative Experience for the New States of Eurasia" Andrey Sushentsov and Nikolai Silaev try to answer this question. Watch live presentation of the Report at 11:00 a.m. Moscow Time on our website.
🔗 Coming-of-Age Stories: Foreign Policy as Formative Experience for New Eurasian States
🔵 The Report is published within the framework of a new Valdai Club programme “Modern Diplomacy”.
#ModernDiplomacy #PostSovietSpace #CIS #Eurasia
@valdai_club — The Valdai Discussion Club
As in most cases when classmates meet 30 years after graduation, they learn that nobody turned out to be a massive success or failure, and everyone thinks that they have something to be proud of. Some are sure that they have made it in life and pity their classmates.
Any comparison of the former Soviet republics is bound to be inaccurate, because they are such wildly disparate countries with hardly a common parameter for comparison. They have different foreign policy goals. What is a blessing to some is a curse to others. Sharing its sovereignty with the United States is a dream come true for Estonia. For Russia, this would be a historical catastrophe. How they can be classified?
👉 The authors of a new Valdai report "The Growing Up Romance: Foreign Policy as a Formative Experience for the New States of Eurasia" Andrey Sushentsov and Nikolai Silaev try to answer this question. Watch live presentation of the Report at 11:00 a.m. Moscow Time on our website.
🔗 Coming-of-Age Stories: Foreign Policy as Formative Experience for New Eurasian States
🔵 The Report is published within the framework of a new Valdai Club programme “Modern Diplomacy”.
#ModernDiplomacy #PostSovietSpace #CIS #Eurasia
@valdai_club — The Valdai Discussion Club
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Coming-of-Age Stories: Foreign Policy as Formative Experience for New Eurasian States
During the fiist 30 years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the former Soviet republics were like teenagers who graduated school at a time of historical transformation.