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xi, 371 pages : maps ; 25 cm |
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| Summary |
"Eurasia's major powers - China, Iran, Russia, and Turkey - increasingly intervene across their borders while seeking to pull their smaller neighbors more firmly into their respective orbits. While analysts have focused on the role of leaders like Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdoan in explaining this drive to dominate neighbors and pull away from the Western-dominated international system, they have paid less attention to the role of imperial legacies. Jeffrey Mankoff argues that what unites these contemporary Eurasian powers is their status as heirs to vast terrestrial empires, namely the Qing, Safavid, Romanov, and Ottoman dynasties. The collapse of these empires in the early twentieth century left all four states deeply entangled with the lands and peoples along their periphery but outside their formal borders. Today they have all found new opportunities to project power within and beyond their borders in patterns shaped by their respective imperial pasts. Relying on a range of primary and secondary sources and dozens of interviews with scholars, officials, analysts, diplomats, business people, journalists, and others across Eurasia, this book offers the first comparative analysis of the role of imperial legacies in shaping 21st century Eurasian geopolitics"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Russia -- 1. Russian Identity Between Empire and Nation -- 2. Russia's Borderlands and the Territorialization of Identity -- 3. Russia's Near Abroad and the Geopolitics of Empire -- TURKEY -- 4. Those Who Call Themselves Turks: Empire, Islam, and Nation -- 5. On the Margins of the Nation and the State: Turkey's Kurdish Borderland -- 6. The Geopolitics of the Post-Ottoman Space -- Iran -- 7. Iranian Identity and Iran's "Empire of the Mind" -- 8. Iran's Borderlands: The Non-Persian Periphery -- 9. Greater Iran (Iranzamin) and Iran's Imperial Imagination -- China -- 10. Civilization and Imperial Identity in China -- 11. China's Inner Asian Borderlands -- 12. Sinocentrism and the Geopolitics of Tianxia -- Conclusion: A World Safe for Empire? -- Notes -- Index |
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Imperialism -- History.
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Geopolitics -- Eurasia.
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Security, International.
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Eurasia -- Politics and government -- History.
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Geopolitics. (OCoLC)fst00941045
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Imperialism. (OCoLC)fst00968126
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Security, International. (OCoLC)fst01110895
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Eurasia. (OCoLC)fst01245058
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Informational works.
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Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.)
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| ISBN |
0300248253 (hardcover) |
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9780300248258 (hardcover) |
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