Alexander Dugin

Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin is a Russian political philosopher, geopolitical theorist, and one of the most influential ideological figures in post-Soviet Russia. Born in Moscow in 1962, Dugin became the founding architect of Russia's neo-Eurasianist intellectual movement. He is the founder of the International Eurasian Movement and has authored more than sixty books spanning political theory, philosophy, sociology, and geopolitics.

His most influential works — "Foundations of Geopolitics" (1997) and "The Fourth Political Theory" (2009) — advance a vision of a multipolar world order that challenges what he characterizes as the unipolar Atlanticist hegemony. "Foundations of Geopolitics" has been used as a textbook in Russian military academies, and "The Fourth Political Theory" proposes an ideological alternative to liberalism, Marxism, and fascism, rooted in Heideggerian philosophy and civilizational thinking.

Dugin remains a prolific writer and commentator, maintaining active Substack and social media presences, and participating in international conferences on geopolitics and multipolarity. He holds doctorates in Sociology and Political Sciences and previously served as Head of the Department of Sociology of International Relations at Moscow State University.