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The article looks at the thought of Aleksandr Dugin who emerged as a Russian intellectual of Neo-Eurasianism after the collapse of the Soviet Union. At first, Dugin was a geopolitician synthesizing the European tradition of geopolitics and the legacy of Russian classical Eurasianism, and provided a dichotomous framework in which Russia competed with America over international leadership around the world. Secondly, Dugin was a historian who suggested his own peculiar interpretation of Russian turbulent periods, particularly in relation to ‘the rule of Mongol’ and ‘the Time of Trouble’. Thirdly, Dugin proposed Neo-Eurasianism as an alternative ideology of liberalism which America advocated for its Atlanticism and thus should be overcome for a new order. Finally, Dugin established his ideological foundation centering on Russian identity with the influence of Martin Heidegger, German philosopher. According to Dugin, Heidegger’s concept of ‘Dasein’ could be differently transfigured and reinterpreted in the Russian context. To sum up, Dugin’s Eurasianism consisted of vast knowledge of four fields such as geopolitics, Russian history, political thought, and philosophy. However, he became denounced as a far-right political philosopher because he argued for extreme Russian nationalism and exerted political influence during Putin’s regime in the early 2000s. Dugin was also condemned as an extension of European New Right movement due to his theoretical and actual connection with it. Yet his effort for criticism on US-led international order, revelation of hypocrisy of liberalism, and overcoming of European modernity should be appreciated in due manner as it sheds a light on global important questions which remains unsolved till now.