| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 235 pages). |
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text file |
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Contemporary Central Asia : Societes, Politics, and Cultures
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Contemporary Central Asia (Lanham, Md.)
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
The geopolitical consequences of transatlantic energy disunity -- Regions in between : Europe, NATO and the geopolitics of shifting frontiers -- Reimagining Eurasia (with Samuel Charap) -- Getting the EU back into Eurasia (with Raffaello Pantucci) -- The final leg in the race for Caspian gas -- The Nabucco pipeline project is dead -- Alexandros Petersen : interview on Nabucco -- Turkey's multivector energy hub : ignore at your own peril -- Integrating Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey with the West : the case of the East-West transport corridor -- Turkey : the transatlantic energy hub -- BTC security questions persist -- Russia's energy bully takes a fall -- The Molotov-Ribbentrop pipeline -- Turkey : abandoning the EU for the SCO (with Raffaello Pantucci) -- Russia's eastern anxieties (with Raffaello Pantucci) -- The 1992-93 Georgia-Abkhazia war : a forgotten conflict -- Russia invaded Georgia to teach the West a lesson -- Russia's resurgence : risks and rewards -- Azerbaijan and Georgia : playing Russian roulette with Moscow (with Taleh Ziyadov) -- Security and western integration in the Caucasus -- Black Sea security : the NATO imperative -- China's latest piece of the new Silk Road -- Central Asia's new energy giant : China -- Central Asia's most important city is'nt in Central Asia -- China's strategy in Afghanistan -- How the West is totally missing China's geopolitical focus -- China's inadvertent empire (with Raffaello Pantucci) -- Russia, China, and the geopolitics of energy in Central Asia (with Katinka Barysch) -- Did China just win the Caspian gas war? |
| Summary |
This collection features articles, short studies, and interviews by Alexandros Petersen (1984-2014) and constitutes a broad and prescient examination of Eurasian geopolitics. The author analyzes Western relations with the Caucasus and Central Asia, the expansion of Chinese influence, and Russia strategic interests. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Geopolitics -- Eurasia.
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Geopolitics. |
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Eurasia. |
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Eurasia -- Strategic aspects.
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Eurasia -- Foreign relations.
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International relations. |
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Eurasia -- Politics and government.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. |
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Politics and government. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. |
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Diplomatic relations. |
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Strategic aspects of individual places. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Petersen, Alexandros. Eurasia's shifting geopolitical tectonic plates. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2017 9781498525503 (DLC) 2017018557 |
| ISBN |
9781498525510 (electronic book) |
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1498525512 (electronic book) |
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9781498525503 (hardcover) |
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9781498525527 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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