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Prometheism was a Polish geopolitical tradition associated above all with Józef Piłsudski and the interwar Promethean movement. It sought to weaken Russian imperial power, first in the Russian Empire and later in the Soviet Union, by supporting the political aspirations and independence movements of non-Russian peoples living under Moscow’s rule. The name comes from the Greek myth of Prometheus, whose theft of fire for humanity came to symbolize enlightenment, defiance of tyranny, and resistance to oppressive authority. In its historical form, Prometheism was closely linked to Piłsudski’s broader vision of an Eastern European and Eurasian order in which the peoples situated between the Baltic, Black, and Caspian Seas would not remain subordinated to imperial domination. For Promeuraz, Prometheism serves not as a partisan program, but as an intellectual reference point for studying empire, regional diversity, national movements, center–periphery relations, and the political futures of Eurasia.

Promeuraz approaches Eurasian Studies by shifting attention from interstate relations alone to the nations, regions, peoples, and sub-state political communities that often shape Eurasian geopolitics from below. Much of modern international relations treats states as the primary actors of world politics; Promeuraz seeks to put the “nation” back into international relations by examining how regional identities, national movements, demographic change, exile networks, cultural politics, and center–periphery tensions influence broader struggles over power, sovereignty, and imperial inheritance. Our work is deliberately interdisciplinary, combining political science, sociology, history, demography, philology, and cultural analysis. We reject methodological orthodoxy in favor of research questions that require both qualitative interpretation and quantitative evidence, pursuing work that is at once theoretically grounded and policy-relevant.

Promeuraz is a research-focused think tank and publishing initiative rather than a political or activist organization. We bring together academics, journalists, students, and independent researchers interested in the regional, national, historical, and geopolitical transformations shaping Eurasia. Our work is guided by the conviction that a free and democratic Eurasia requires serious study of the regions and peoples too often treated as peripheral to great-power politics. Through reporting, analysis, and long-form research, Promeuraz seeks to provide rigorous and reliable insight into Russia’s regions, national movements, exile politics, center–periphery relations, and the wider post-imperial future of Eurasia.