Central Eurasian Studies: A Political Project

There is a project in academia of Central Eurasian Studies, but I'm talking about a political project in the world that takes Eurasianism, Eurasia, to justify authoritarian regimes. And so we want to be careful not necessarily to validate the political projects that are associated with them. It celebrates illiberal democracy, as they call it, demonic power. So I'm very cautious in using the term Eurasia. Now point number three. How do I teach the region? What is it that I tell students? Let me just check for time here. There's no clock on the wall. Yeah. All right, thanks, Al. Point number three has spent not very much time on,.