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Forging a New Security Order in Eurasia: China, the SCO, and the Impacts on Regional Governance
Bei**g played a critical role in establishing the SCO in the aftermath of the break of the former Soviet Union in response to the emerging...
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Exploring Opportunities and Limitations of Kazakhstan’s Multilateral and Bilateral Cooperation in Renewable Energy within Central Asia: A Comprehensive Analysis
Global energy architecture changes under the influence of energy transitions and geopolitical events, which actualize the task of strengthening...
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Conclusion
At the time of writing this book, European security architecture is undergoing fundamental transformations triggered by the brutal Russian invasion...
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The Kazakh Model? Dynamics of Regime Succession in Eurasia
Following the retirement of Nursultan Nazarbayev in March 2019 and the development of dual rule in Kazakhstan, some analysts speculated that this...
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Central Asia in Eurasia: Its Role in History
Traditionally, Eurasia’s inner areas have remained almost unnoticed in the huge continent’s complex and multi-faceted history, when compared, of...
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From ‘the global’ to ‘the local’: the future of ‘cooperative orders’ in Central Eurasia in times of complexity
Living in times of increasing complexity is hard; it becomes even harder with the realisation of diminishing control. How do we adapt our governance...
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Greater Eurasia: From Geopolitical Pole to International Society?
The last few years have seen a radical shift that could change the entire structure of international relations. In general terms, it is the...
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New World Order and Small Regions The Case of South Caucasus
The book provides a comprehensive understanding of the unfolding geopolitical changes in the South Caucasus in the age of increased great power...
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Sad Delusions: From Greater Europe to Greater Eurasia
In recent years there has been much talk of the return of a bipolar structure to international order, with the dominance of the United States...
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Land Corridors, Multimodal Connections and Mobility in India’s Northwest
This chapter examines the significance of India’s transcontinental connections by focusing on land corridors to its Northwest. It begins with an...
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“Threats for Peace and Security: Asia vs. West”
Iran with thousand years of civilization is situated in the most strategic geopolitical location in the Middle East. With 5894 km of land borders and...
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The European Union Discovers Geopolitics
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine structurally changed the geopolitical situation on the European continent, turning Ukraine into a border state...
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Global Governance of the Polycentric World: Actors, Architecture, Hierarchy of Issue Areas
Global governance is one of the most contested concepts today. In the last two decades, it has changed on many grounds—as an ideology in the context...
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The Tragedy of US–Russian Relations: NATO Centrality and the Revisionists’ spiral
This chapter adds to the debate on NATO expansion in two ways that depart from standard practice. First, it makes explicit the theoretical models...
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European democracy’s Response to the BRI
In this chapter, I will argue that the 2013 Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been neither a curse nor a blessing for democracy. Instead,...
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Understanding National Security: The Promises and Pitfalls of International Relations Theory
This chapter surveys how some of the main international relations theories can assist in understanding national security problems. First it...
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Finding Compatibility Between Eurasian Partnership and Indo-Pacific Security: And Indian Perspective
India’s engagement with continental Eurasia is woven into its history, culture, literature, legend and mythology. Over many periods between the sixth...
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EU–China Security Relations
The chapter explores how European states have developed a ‘post-modern’ perspective on military security that has been embedded in the EU’s Common...
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Enemy at the Gates: NATO in the Black Sea
This chapter analyzes hard power/military/naval aspects of Russian foreign policy, the second pillar of Russian policy, “spheres of influence” Cold...
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Facing China in Eurasia: The Russian Perspective
The XXIst century is witnessing a historically unprecedented approximation between Russia and China. In 1997, both countries initialled a strategic...