The paper deals with the formation of ‘Eurasian concepts’ in Japan (called here ‘ Eurasianism ’) among academicians at the turn of the 20th - 21st centuries, including the considered by us definition of the ‘Eurasianism’, the explanation of the rise of a new Eurasian academic school in the Post-Cold-War decades and the dissemination of common concepts of Eurasia, spread in texts and utterances by academicians and politicians. In the paper it is aimed to present the most pervasive terms of Eurasian concepts in Japan in its political, cultural, economic dimensions, such as ‘Political Eurasian concept’ and three approaches within ‘Academic Eurasian concept’ (Great Eurasian Powers, Eurasian boarder studies, Central Eurasia cultural studies). The focus of our analysis is ideas provided by contemporary Japanese researchers in the field of politics, economics and area studies. The beginning of the rise of these ideas dates back to the 1990s when the new Eurasian region appeared on the political map of the world with
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)276-291
JournalВестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Востоковедение и африканистика
Volume12
Issue number2
StatePublished - 2020

    Research areas

  • boarder studies, Eurasian studies, GREAT powers, Great Silk Road, Inoue Yasushi, Iwashita Akihiro, великие державы, великий шелковый путь, евразийские исследования, Ивасита Акихиро, Иноуэ Ясуси, исследования границ

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