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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810913703321

Autore

Petersen Alexandros

Titolo

Eurasia's shifting geopolitical tectonic plates : global perspective, local theaters / / Alexandros Petersen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4985-2551-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Contemporary Central Asia Societies, Politics, and Cultures

Disciplina

327.5

Soggetti

Geopolitics - Eurasia

Eurasia Strategic aspects

Eurasia Foreign relations

Eurasia Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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?