New Eurasian Landscape: Competing Spheres of Influence and Regional Autonomy
Russia’s war in Eastern Europe has attenuated Moscow’s dominion over post-Soviet Eurasia and enabled unprecedented regional realignment. States of the Caucasus and Central Asia are consolidating sovereignty to extend external alignments and construct alternative corridors of connectivity. Even as Russian influence endures, emerging partnerships with China, Turkey, and the European Union are reshaping more autonomous, pluralistic Eurasian geopolitical landscape resistant to renewed coercion.