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

Includes index.

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?

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.

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