Introduction: Conceptual and Methodological Framework

Summary

The discussions and debate we had around the “Toward a Greater Eurasia: How to Build a Common Future” in the fourth Astana Club Meeting (12–13 November 2018), held while I was working on Systemic Earthquake, contained significant clues with respect to understanding the psychology of the international environment and bringing out the main focus of this book’s methodological approach. The prevailing intellectual currents among participants emerged right from the opening session of this wide-ranging roundtable gathering hosted by the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, and attended by a number of former presidents, prime ministers, and ministers together with a host of academics distinguished for their work on the issue of international order.