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This paper aims to explore the significant role played by Eurasianism both as a philosophy and as a political project in three Central Asian republics. Debates of political elites and intellectuals in Kazakhstan. Kyrgystan and Uzbekistan over their countries' models of development and policy of regional integration is the focus of this research. This paper tries to clarify the meaning of Eurasianism by comparing it to similar ideologies and ideas such as Asianism. Similarities between Chinese or Japanese Asianism with Russian Euraisianism on the one hand, and the similarities between Korean and Uzbek reactions to these dominant nations' integrationist ideas are highlighted. It is argued that dominant nation Eurasianism (i.e. Russian) is significantly different than the non-dominant nations'case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]