Eurasianism

UWI documents in the following days some speeches delivered in the congress. Today we publish the presentation of Ihsan Sefa. Sefa is a retired colonel of the Turkish Armed Forces and a member of the Central Committee of the Vatan Party (Türkiye).

Robert Steuckers is a Belgian translator, theorist and writer, who was once close to the New Right more than 30 years ago, and who knows Alexander Dugin, the thinker of neo-eurasism presented by the international press as the most influential ideologist in the circles of power in Russia and whose daughter Daria died in an attack in Moscow. Lionel Baland interviewed him for Breizh-info.

1 month ago, I had the opportunity to meet Maurizio Murelli, publisher and proponent of Eurasianism in Italy (materialized by Duginian thought called “Fourth Political Theory”). Knowing Maurizio Murelli was one of the best acquaintances (in the cultural-political field) of my activism up to the moment I am writing. One of the best, because intellectually we are faced with the same destiny (even though this may seem latent).

Eurasian integration is one of Russia's top geopolitical priorities, while African integration is a priority for African countries. Both concepts were formed within their respective ideological currents: Eurasianism and Pan-Africanism. Despite the outward differences between Eurasianists and Pan-Africanists, there are serious structural similarities between these ideologies, which can be summarised in Arnold Toynbee's 'challenge-response' scheme. In essence, these are problems of similar civilisations, of non-Western civilisations confronting the problems of Westernisation, modernisation, historical memory and the project of a future rooted in tradition.