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Contents Preface Introduction Section I: The West¿s East Brussels: The New Rome The Russian Devolution Ukraine: From Border to Bridge The Balkans: Eastern Questions Turkey: Marching East and West The Caucasian Corridor Section II: Affairs of the Heartland Silk Road and Great Game The Russia That Was Tibet and Xinjiang: The New Bamboo Curtain Kazakhstan: ¿Happiness is Multiple Pipelines¿ Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: Sovereign of Everything, Master of Nothing Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan: Men Behaving Badly Afghanistan and Pakistan: Taming South-Central Asia Section III: The End of the Monroe Doctrine The New Rules of the Game Mexico: The Umbilical Cord Venezuela: Bolivar¿s Revenge Columbia: The Andean Balkans? Brazil: The Southern Pole Argentina and Chile: Very Fraternal Twins Section IV: In Search of the ¿Middle East¿ The Shattered Belt The Maghreb: Europe¿s Southern Shore Egypt: Between Bureaucrats and Theocrats The Mashreq: Road Maps The Former Iraq: Buffer, Black Hole, and Broken Boundary Iran: Virtues and Vices Gulf Streams Section V: Asia for Asians From Outside-In to Inside-Out China¿s First World Seduction The Greater Chinese Co-Prosperity Sphere The Inner Triangle Size Matters: The Four Chinas Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
World politics -- 21st century.
Communist countries.
Former communist countries.
Geopolitics.
Globalization.
Balance of power.