form themselves into a free, sovereign, and independent body politic, or state." This framing of the state as a commonwealth derives from the language of 17th-century thinkers like Thomas Hobbes ...

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Belarus saw the EAEU as a strategic tool for economic gains and geopolitical balance, but shifting dynamics have challenged this approach.