Zhao Huasheng

is Professor at the Institute for International Studies, Fudan University.

1 An early form of the idea of Greater Eurasian Partnership came into being in Putin’s 2015 Annual Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly, when he initiated the idea of establishing an economic partnership between the Eurasian Economic Union and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and ASEAN. At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in June 2016, Putin put forward the concept of Greater Eurasian Partnership. In the 2016 Presidential Address, Putin once again proposed to establish a multi-level greater Eurasian integration model, which is the Greater Eurasian Partnership.

2 Some scholars have systematically examined the Greater Eurasian Partnership in various perspectives. See Li Ziguo, “The Greater Eurasian Partnership: Remodeling the Eurasian Order?” China International Studies, March/april 2017, pp.44-65; Pang Dapeng, “Russia’s Greater Eurasian Partnership,” Academic Journal of Russian Studies, No.2, 2017, pp.5-16.