The papers of the Special Issue have been published in 1_2020
Guest editors:
- Prof. Vladimir Kolosov, Deputy Director and Head of Laboratory at the Institute of Geography of Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the International Geographical Union (2012-2016), Moscow; kolosov@igras.ru
- Prof. Alexander Druzhinin, Director of the North Caucasian Institute of Socio-Economic Studies of the Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-the Don; alexdru9@mail.ru
- Dr. Paul Fryer, Adjunct Professor and Academic Head of "Border Crossing's Master's Degree Programme, University of Eastern Finland; paul.fryer@uef.fi
At present, thanks to the development of economic and cultural ties, and communications, a single continental space called Greater Eurasia is formed. It encompasses all the states neighbouring Russia. In recent years, an understanding of Greater Eurasia as a global political project, opening up new prospects for current geopolitical crisis, has emerged. In this interpretation, Greater Eurasia implies the creation of inter-block trade and economic partnerships, a network of free trade zones and the coordination of regional integration processes throughout the Eurasian continent, including the EEU and the Chinese initiative “One Belt - One Road”. Therefore, a significant relevance is acquiring a study of transboundary natural-environmental and emerging socio-economic regions, the potential impact on environment of major international projects, including new intercontinental transport routes, social and natural factors and restrictions on the development of borderlands, and of the current state and opportunities for cross-border cooperation. In the context of globalization and coordinated integration projects, coastal zones and communications hubs, in which acute conflicts of resource use are often being developed, play a special role.
Deadline: August 1th, 2019
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