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Models of Regional Leadership in Eurasia: to the New Research Agenda
 
PIIS013122270013264-1-1
DOI10.20542/0131-2227-2020-64-11-114-123
Publication type Article
Status Published
Authors
Irina Busygina 
Occupation: Director, Center for Comparative Governance Studies
Affiliation: National Research University Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg)
Address: 123, Кanala Griboedova Nab., Saint-Petersburg, 190068, Russian Federation
Ivan S. Grigoriev
Affiliation: National Research University Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg)
Address: 123, Кanala Griboedova Nab., Saint-Petersburg, 190068, Russian Federation
Anna A. Dekalchuk
Affiliation: National Research University Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg)
Address: 123, Кanala Griboedova Nab., Saint-Petersburg, 190068, Russian Federation
Yury A. Kabanov
Occupation: Senior Lecturer
Affiliation: National Research University Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg)
Address: 123, Кanala Griboedova Nab., Saint-Petersburg, 190068, Russian Federation
Svetlana Krivokhizh
Affiliation: National Research University Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg)
Address: 123, Кanala Griboedova Nab., Saint-Petersburg, 190068, Russian Federation
Helena Soboleva
Occupation: Senior Lecturer
Affiliation: National Research University Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg)
Address: 123, Кanala Griboedova Nab., Saint-Petersburg, 190068, Russian Federation
Journal nameMirovaia ekonomika i mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia
EditionVolume 64 Issue 11
Pages114-123
Abstract

One of the important tasks in the study of international politics today is the elaboration and empirical verification of new theoretical models for the coexistence of several regional leadership projects, simultaneously implemented by various countries and international organizations. Until now, the existing models, as a rule, have described this kind of leadership at the international arena in fundamentally hierarchical terms: either as a unipolar world with a hegemonic country dominating global politics, or as a bipolar system. These models unambiguously assume that the world either “belongs” to one hegemon, or is divided between two superpowers. In the latter case, there are practically no regions where both leadership projects would be carried out simultaneously, since such a geographical “overlap” would inevitably provoke conflict. Meanwhile, the task of understanding and explaining the internal mechanics of the simultaneous coexistence of several potential leaders on the same geographic territory for a fairly long time remains unsolved. In the modern world, such parallel (joint or competitive) leadership can no longer be regarded as an anomaly or a temporary phenomenon, it becomes a “new normality”, creating additional opportunities for international players, but at the same time imposing more substantial constraints on them. Thus, the relevance of the agenda put forward in the article is determined by a number of circumstances, the most fundamental of which is the crisis of the global governance system and the neoliberal model of globalization. Today, macro-regions become “building blocks” for the multipolar structure of the world, and the role of individual states or their groups, which begin to play a structure-forming role in “their” macro-regions, is increasing. These are potential leaders with special characteristics and special relations with their “followers”. The problem of leadership is most interestingly actualized in the Eurasian region, the internationalization of which is rapidly growing. In this region, several leaders are observed (such as Russia, China, the European Union) who compete for the same followers, offering them different agendas and using a wide range of power tools – from “soft” to “hard” power. It is in Eurasia that the variability of relations connecting the leader and followers is extremely high. In this article, the authors put forward and ground the possibility and necessity of developing a research agenda on regional leadership based on the material of modern Eurasia – the most important world macro-region where three leadership projects are being successfully implemented at the same time, the description and analysis of which in their interconnection go beyond the Eurasian theme only and can help advance our understanding of the nature of multipolarity in modern international relations.

Keywordsregional leadership, international relations, Eurasia, Russia, China, European Union
AcknowledgmentThe article has been supported by a grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR). Project no. 19-014-00030 “Leadership Models in Multipolar World: Comparative Analysis of Strategies of Russia, China and the European Union in Eurasian Region”.
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КОНЦЕПТУАЛИЗАЦИЯ РЕГИОНАЛЬНОГО ЛИДЕРСТВА
ЛИДЕРСТВО В ЕВРАЗИИ: РОССИЯ, КИТАЙ, ЕВРОПЕЙСКИЙ СОЮЗ
ПОЧЕМУ ЕВРАЗИЯ?
ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ НОВОЙ ИССЛЕДОВАТЕЛЬСКОЙ ПОВЕСТКИ
1 Фарид Закария назвал современный период третьим великим тектоническим сдвигом в распределении силы на международной арене1. Это время подъема “остальных” наций (именно поэтому книга, в которой аналитик вводит данную периодизацию, носит название “Постамериканский мир”), причем этот подъем особенно отчетливо проявляется в Азии [1]. Новый период поставил новые фундаментальные научные задачи, одной из важнейших в исследованиях международной политики стало создание и эмпирическая проверка новых теоретических моделей сосуществования нескольких региональных лидерских проектов, параллельно реализуемых различными странами и международными организациями. Существующие на сегодняшний день научные модели, как правило, описывают такого рода конфигурации лидерства на международной арене в принципиально иерархических терминах: это либо модель однополярного мира со страной-гегемоном, доминирующей в глобальной политике; либо биполярная (типичная, в частности, для мировой политики времен холодной войны), где между двумя лагерями, внутри себя организованными иерархически, происходит противостояние, поддерживаемое непроницаемостью границы между ними [2]. В последнем случае регионов, где бы параллельно осуществлялись оба проекта лидерства, практически не существует, поскольку такое географическое “наложение” неизбежно провоцировало бы конфликт (открытый или в редких случаях латентный), который в биполярной модели и является основным механизмом снятия двойственности в системе. 1. По мнению Закария, первым был сдвиг, связанный с концентрацией силы на Западе во времена Ренессанса, а вторым – сдвиг силы в США с превращением их в супердержаву.
2 Однако в настоящее время такое “наложение” потенциальных зон влияния стало не аномалией, но, скорее, правилом, поэтому прежние иерархические модели лидерства оказались не вполне адекватными для понимания природы и траектории развития современного многополярного мира [3]. Действительно, в новейшей литературе, изучающей этот феномен, нынешнее состояние принято характеризовать как гетерархическое, то есть такое, в котором одновременно возможно развитие сразу нескольких проектов лидерства [4]. Несмотря на то что в теории международных отношений (МО) данная тема получила некоторое развитие, систематического эмпирического исследования реализации такой модели параллельного лидерства до сих пор не проводилось: авторы существующих работ задаются по большей части вопросами об индивидуальных стратегиях стран-гегемонов, а также о природе и успешности реализуемых ими проектов лидерства. Между тем несформулированной и нерешенной остается задача осмысления внутренней механики одновременного сосуществования на одной географической территории нескольких потенциальных лидеров в течение достаточно долгого времени, когда такое параллельное (совместное или конкурентное) лидерство не может рассматриваться как аномалия или временное явление, но становится “новой нормальностью”, создавая для международных игроков дополнительные возможности, однако и накладывая ни них более существенные ограничения.

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