ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to assess the systemic pressures towards which Russia appears to be gravitating. It explores the rising political neomodernism in Russia. Neomodernism calls for a resurgence in romanticist nationalism due to the central role of the state to replicate the community. Embracing postmodernism threatens to deconstruct and destroy Russian civilization. Sovereign democracy has evolved towards a more cohesive neomodernist philosophy that aims to reinvent the role of the state and reshape interactions in the international system. The chapter surveys Russia's inclinations towards Eurasian geoeconomics. Eurasia offers greater prospects for Russia to assert its influence over strategic industries, transportation, and energy corridors, and new mechanisms for international cooperation where Russia has a seat at the table and can create a more favourable format for globalisation. The chapter concludes that neomodernism and geoeconomics can make Russian society more competitive and its community more durable.
