Looking beyond the 2018 presidential election and assuming that it would return Putin to presidency, the current confederative structure of the Russian state is unlikely to survive yet another of Putin's six-year terms without a substantial upheaval.

The Eurasian Union is a project of confederative union of sovereign states with single economic and political, military and

But such alternatives seemed like they might take too long to emerge, nato was a known commodity, did not need to be institutionalized (such as csce) or invented (such as a new confederative structure for Europe, as Mitterrand proposed).

It was a Europe of states and a directorial Europe, which foreran (in a certain way) Charles de Gaulle's formula." (26) The debates between national and supranational, federative and confederative, union and unity, all found their moment in the European history, being placed in the center and thus preparing the postwar debates that led to the building of contemporary European Union.