They say America won the Cold War. But as America and the Anglophone world naturally wane and other power centers gain in strength, the cultural, geographical, and sheer mineral resources of Russia ensure it will continue to play an important role. Consolidating its position and capitalizing on its economic transformation, it looks set to confound all who claim that the Soviet Union somehow just fell apart at the very moment when it surpassed the United States militarily. The author suggests that perestroika and glasnost' may have been bold strategic moves to modernize and secure an unwieldy empire, renegotiating relations with its former constituent republics, just in time to take the lead as the United States began to buckle under the strains of over extending.

Out of a roughly 700 million population, the new Eurasian Community has approximately 180 million Russian speakers and 360 million speak a Slavic language — a simple majority. In the afterglow of what has been termed "the unipolar moment," the book examines the potentially dominant role of Panslavism in the next evolution of a sovereign Euroslavia.