Eurasia on the Edge

Richard Sakwa

doi:10.5771/9781498564212

Summary

Eurasia, wherever one draws the boundaries, is very much at the centre of discussions about today’s world. Security across Eurasia is a global concern and has been subject to a range of discussions and debate. However, the current tensions over security and world order, with the growing challenges from Eurasia and Asia, require more intense scrutiny. The goals of the book are to explore the challenges facing the region and to assess how to achieve economic, social and political stability in the Eurasian core.

The book’s chapters are written by prominent experts in the field, and together contribute to the continuing debate by providing policy advice for managing crises in the region. Conflicts inevitably arise in the Eurasian space as global powers, regional powers and individual states jockey for positions and influence. These conflicts need not reach a crisis state provided the foundations of conflict, and the surrounding frameworks, can be better understood. To do this, it is necessary to examine the issue of security in Eurasia from a multi-dimensional perspective that challenges any and all assumptions about Eurasia and global order.

This volume has two overarching goals. The first is to come to a better understanding of key security threats in the Eurasian region from a multi-dimensional – social, political, economic and institutional - perspective. The second is to discuss policies directed to increase mutual security in and around the Eurasian core. Although the crisis of security affects the whole continent, the area covered by the former Soviet Union and its neighborhood is at the epicenter of the current crisis. On the one side, the Atlantic community is consolidating and extending. On the other, various ‘greater Asia’ ideas are in the making. All of Eurasia is in danger of becoming an extended shatter zone, a vast new, shaky ‘borderland’ trapped between two great systems of power and world order.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2018
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-6420-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-6421-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 312
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Chess, Go, and Eurasian Great Games No access
4. Eurasian Security No access
Chapter 1 No access Pages 1 - 6
1. Leading Characters No access
2. Continental Geopolitical Rifts No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Notes No access
5. References No access
1. Eurasia and Managing Regionalism No access
2. Eurasian Regional Arrangements No access
3. Regionalism in Eurasia: Securing the Future No access
4. Notes No access
5. References No access
1. Security Challenges and Regional Integration: Integration-Driven and Exogenous Security Threats No access
2. Examples of Security Risks No access
3. Dilemmas of Integration-Driven Security Threats No access
4. Eurasian Economic Union Institutions No access
5. Collective Security Treaty Organization No access
6. Shanghai Cooperation Organization7 No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
9. References No access
1. The Constructs No access
2. The E-Complex No access
3. Institutional Capacity No access
4. Notes No access
5. References No access
1. SCO at the Crossroads No access
2. Notes No access
3. References No access
1. Border and Borderland Security No access
2. Geopolitical Strategic Security No access
3. Terrorism: the Sword of Damocles No access
4. A Base for Energy Security No access
5. Developing to the West: A Smooth Passage No access
6. Approaches TO Security Management in Eurasia No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
9. References No access
1. The View from Brussels No access
2. The EU in Search of a Global Strategy No access
3. European Union as an Exceptional Power No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. References No access
1. Belt and Road Initiative: A Grand Project of International Economic Cooperation No access
2. Overall Security Outlook of Xi Jinping No access
3. Belt and Road Initiative Examined From the Perspective of Overall Security No access
4. The BRI and China’s Strategic Maneuvering with the United States No access
5. The BRI and Sino-Russian Strategic Coordination No access
6. Conclusion: BRI, the Overall Security Outlook, and Eurasian Security Cooperation No access
7. Notes No access
8. References No access
1. Eurasian Security Challenges No access
2. Great Powers No access
3. But All Is Not Lost No access
4. References No access
1. Setting the Criteria of Success and Risks No access
2. Success for Governments, Businesses, and Households No access
3. General Picture and Risks No access
4. Note No access
5. References No access
1. Essentials of Security Dilemmas: Three Natural Inclinations No access
2. Policies Bound By Security Dilemmas No access
3. Globalization Versus Regionalization No access
4. Economic Development Versus Geopolitics No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
7. References No access
1. State Weakness, Interstate Conflicts, and Failed Intraregional Cooperation in Central Asia No access
2. Water and Energy Conflict as a Key Determinant of Interstate Relations in Central Asia No access
3. Water and Energy Regime in Central Asia in Late Soviet Period: The Seeds of Future Conflicts No access
4. The Energy and Water Issues after the Dissolution of the Soviet Union No access
5. National Policies to Overcome Water-Energy Problem and Their Clash No access
6. Failed Attempts to Establish Regional International Water and Energy Regime No access
7. Conclusion: A New Beginning? No access
8. Notes No access
9. References No access
1. The EU’s Eastern and Central Asian Partnerships No access
2. EU-Programming and Funding For Border and Migration Management No access
3. Intergovernmental Organizations in EU Border and Migration Management No access
4. EU Border and Migration Management in Russia’s “Near Abroad”: Quo Vadis? No access
5. Notes No access
6. References No access
1. Grassroots Globalizations: Between Isolation and Interdependence No access
2. Borders: Geometry of Isolation in the Fergana Valley No access
3. Place 1: Batken Zone (Kyrgyzstan) No access
4. Place 2: Sokh (Uzbekistan) No access
5. Place 3: Vorukh (Tajikistan) No access
6. Waters: Geometry of Interdependence along the Isfara River No access
7. Conclusion: Potential Repercussions for the Eurasian Space No access
8. Notes No access
9. References No access
1. The Geopolitics of the Russian-Chinese Rapprochement No access
2. The Impact of the Ukrainian Crisis No access
3. Donald Trump and the Future of Russian-Chinese Relations No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Note No access
6. References No access
1. Why and what in Eurasia security No access
2. The Great Shift No access
3. Third Time Lucky? No access
4. 3D Security Challenges in Eurasia No access
5. Internal/Domestic Security Challenges: Not So Sweet Home No access
6. Regional Security Challenges—“To Fear Wolves Ahead and Tigers Behind”15 No access
7. Eurasian/Global Security Challenges No access
8. Managing Contradictions No access
9. Notes No access
10. References No access
Index No access Pages 293 - 304
Notes on Contributors No access Pages 305 - 312