Jeju Peace Institute

Since the inauguration of the Park Geun-hye Adminstration, Korea’s key external policies include the ‘Korean Penisula Trust-Building Process’, the ‘Northeat Asia Peace and Cooperation Initiative’, and the ‘Eurasia Initiatve’. Of those policies, the Eurasia Initiative not only aims to build a regional cooperative network covering the two Koreas and the other Northeast Asian countries but also pursues the creation of a new single economic block that will directly link the Korean Peninsula with Russia and Europe. It is the country’s major international strategy to reach beyond Northeast Asia. Therefore, the Eurasia Initiative encompasses a vast geographical expanse. Moreover, it is characterized by its attempts to transcend the confines of the country’s traditional security concerns. To that end, a comprehensive understanding of all the regions involved in the initiative is crucial.

This paper focuses on the observation of the different approaches of Korea, Russia and the EU included in the geographical category of the Eurasia Initiative to various concepts from their unique traditional, ideological and strategic perspectives. It is an effort to contribute to deepening the understanding of the present and future of ‘Eurasia.’

In its conclusion, this research stresses the fact that successful strategies for the Eurasia Initiative require a balanced understanding of Eurasia from the abovementioned three perspectives.​