Moscow’s ambitious Afro-Eurasian grand strategy

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke about his country’s Afro-Eurasian grand strategy in a recent interview with Marina Kim for her New World project that can be read in full here. He envisages the creation of a Greater Eurasian Partnership that brings together the Eurasian Economic Union, the SCO, and ASEAN to establish the economic and transport backbone for a new Eurasian security architecture. The latter is expected to be inclusive and eventually involve Western Eurasia with time.