Abstract China's President Xi Jinping's Central Asian tour in fall 2013 marked Beijing's
unprecedented (re) turn to Central Asia as a lynchpin of the “Silk Road Economic Belt” of the …

For centuries trade and connectivity, more than conflicts and divisions, have defined the
Eurasian space. Much more, they have been the constituting elements of an early …

The Eurasian region continues to disintegrate, and neither Russia nor the West has been
able to arrest the destabilizing dynamics. Evidence of rising instability throughout the region …

As the twenty-first century progresses, struggle for the control of Central Asia is growing, as
rising China increases its economic and political clout while Russia is trying to regain its lost …

This article aims to highlight the major historical and geopolitical characteristics of Central
Asia. Various geopolitical currents highlight the prominence of Central Asia under the …

This book explains cooperative and confrontational regional orders in the post-Cold War
era. Applying a push-and-pull framework to the evolution of regional orders, the book's …

This note reviews the implications of the political crisis around Ukraine and of the economic
crisis in Russia on the development of Eurasian regionalism and, in particular, the future of …

ABSTRACT A binary, geopolitical narrative of a new “Great Game” for power in Central Asia
may be too simplistic. It remains unclear what regionalisation trends will become embedded …

Россия ставит формирование полицентричности в качестве одной из главных своих
задач на международной арене, но без сотрудничества с основными мировыми и …

Twenty years passed after the dissolution of the USSR and the re-birth of Russian
Federation and Central Asian states in the world arena in such a unipolar world. Since the …