Indian Expert Breaks Down Eurasia's Strategic Complexity at Valdai Conference in Moscow
16:42 09.12.2025 (Updated: 17:07 09.12.2025)
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Eurasia is a region where the ambitions of major powers often converge and clash. It is a space of economic and strategic weight, where the United States, Russia, China, India, and several regional players all seek influence.
Major General Alok Chowdhury (Retd), a prominent Indian strategic analyst, captured the continent’s core paradox in a single line: “Eurasia is where every major power seeks influence, preferably without responsibility.”
Speaking at Valdai Discussion Club's conference titled “Security in Eurasia: From Concept to Practice, he declared that the post-Cold War Western-led order has irreparably eroded under NATO expansion, intensifying great-power rivalry, and the Ukrainian conflict, leaving no inclusive mechanism to contain cascading military, economic, cyber, and migration risks across the world’s most interconnected region."
🚨 Eurasia: Board where everyone plays, but no one rules
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The old dream of a single Western-led order is gone. What has replaced it is not chaos, but multipolar complexity, where rivalry exists without a clear ordering authority, says Maj Gen Sanjeev Chowdhry (Retd) pic.twitter.com/K1Cq4b2UG3
Stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific and Indian Oceans, Eurasia remains uniquely dense with great powers, rising states, and conflict zones where local crises instantly turn global.
“No single power today has the capacity or legitimacy to serve as Eurasia’s security provider,” Chowdhury stressed, warning that outdated bloc-based approaches only fuel escalation.
His conclusion: the time has come for a new, truly inclusive Eurasian security architecture that brings all major stakeholders to the table.
