Zhou Ming Li Jiawei

Abstract：The Eurasia has been in troubled times. Among the three crises in Eurasia in 2020，two of them are related to contentious politics. The perspective of national identity is conducive to re-examining the typical characteristics of contentious politics in Eurasia. Through a comparative analysis of Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, the three Eurasian countries where “color revolutions” took place at the beginning of this century, we can find that national identities of Eurasian countries have been constructed at both internal and external dimensions. The consistency of their national identities in construction affects not only the characteristics of the three countries' contentious politics, but also the direction of their respective national. Political development. Western countries habitually classify contentious politics in developing countries as a democratic issue, which conceals the fundamental relationship between contentious politics，national identity construction and the choice of national development road in the Eurasian countries. Therefore, it is of theoretical value and practical significance to clarify the myth of contentious politics. And democracy andto better understand contentious politics and political development of related countries amid changes unseen in a century.