...Jamie Coomarasamy The essay summarizes a recent reporting trip by the author to Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan for the BBC, during which he examined the reasons for and observed the practical impact of China’s growing influence in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia. The author provides...

...Emilian Kavalski This essay examines the domestic logic informing the creation of Bulgaria's foreign policy. It contextualizes inferences made from Bulgaria's diplomatic attempt to “play the EU” during the visit by the Bulgarian minister of foreign affairs to Central Asia in September 2007...

... is a member of the editorial advisory board of Mediterranean Quarterly . The Crisis in Central Asia, NATO, and the International Community Alessandro Minuto-­Rizzo International security is a problem concerning everybody, in the same way that energy...

...Roland Flamini Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo: The Road to Kabul: The International Community and the Crisis in Central Asia (Italian). Bologna, Italy: Il mulino, 2009. 192 pages. €16.00. ISBN 978-88-15-12736-5. Ronald Flamini is a Washington-based writer specializing in foreign affairs. His most...

...Subodh Atal Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2003 Subodh Atal is a Washington, D.C.–based analyst, specializing in South and Central Asian Affairs. Central Asia Geopolitics and U.S. Policy in the Region: The Post–11 September Era Subodh Atal...

...Gregory Hall; Tiara Grant Increasingly, Central Asia, and specifically the Caspian Sea Basin (CSB), is becoming a crowded place, as government officials and oil interests from European Union countries, the United States, Russia, China, Iran, Turkey, and elsewhere (including increasingly energy...

... are suspicious of China’s strategic intentions and addressing China’s own knowledge and capacity deficits in dealing with the governmental and nongovernmental actors in the Central Asia, South Asia, and Middle East regions. Minghao Zhao is a research fellow at the Charhar Institute, a Chinese international...

... security activities are on the rise in the region, especially in the form of joint military maneuvers with nonregional actors such as the United States and U.S. military presence in various local countries. The most important factor to give rise to the New Middle East is Central Asia’s emergence...

... and Central Asia as well as on Islamic fundamentalism. MQ 12.1-03 Candar/Fuller 1/23/01 1:32 PM Page 22 Grand Geopolitics for a New Turkey Cengiz Candar and Graham E. Fuller Turkey is at the center of American geopolitical...

... Press, 2014); Adeeb Khalid, “Central Asia between the Ottoman and the Soviet World,” Kritika 12, no. 2 (2011): 451 – 76; Adeeb Khalid, “Backwardness and the Quest for Civilization: Early Soviet Central Asia in Comparative Perspec- tive,” Slavic Review 65, no. 2 (2006): 231 – 51; Francois Georgeon...

... new policies to cope with the new security challenges in North Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. However, there is ironically a missing link in this list of confl icted areas: the Black Sea itself. With the reunifi cation of Europe and post–11 Septem- ber perceptions...

... Weitz: Russian-Turkish Relations  63 of the new Russian Federation feared a strengthening of pan-­Turkism among the Turkish peoples of Central Asia, with a corresponding decrease in Mos- cow’s influence in the region. From the Turkish perspective, the Russian gov- ernment’s initial reluctance...

... and concessions. As post-­historical as any Brussels-­ based EU paper pusher, the Obama administration appears to have written off Eastern Europe as a significant political theater.1 Mead’s assessment applies not only to Eastern Europe but also to the Cauca- sus and Central Asia. Similarly...

... with greater confidence, fortified by its recent political stabil- ity and economic growth. The space where this confidence finds reflection in foreign policy is the former Ottoman territory of the Middle East and the Balkans along with South Caucasia and Central Asia, with which Turkey has...

... with the US military occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan; the growth of anti-­Western terrorist networks in the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia; and the lack of political will to resolve some of the long-­standing ethnic conflicts in the Balkans. The political opportunities currently presented...

... Reviews  97 Alessandro Minuto-­Rizzo: The Road to Kabul: The International Community and the Crisis in Central Asia (Italian). Bologna, Italy: Il mulino, 2009. 192 pages. €16.00. ISBN 978-­88-­15-­12736-5. Reviewed by Roland Flamini. If the North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations had known...

... 2013 Ustun and Kanat: US-Turkish Relations  89 whereas possible cooperation in Central Asia will demonstrate the feasibility of extending that cooperation into other regions of the world. During his first overseas visit...

... of the day, energy security in the EU demands choices that will depend not necessarily on the economic cost but on serving the principle of diversification of routes and suppliers. gas and oil Central Asia interdependence bilateral relations Copyright 2017 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2017...

... speaking, that role is derived from its strategic location at the margins of the European continent between the “problem area” of the Balkans and the Black Sea region, and on a direct line to the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, and Central Asia. The Balkans Romania...

... and political security of China.24 Iran was in Zhang’s vision the key partner for China in the region, as it possessed a unique dual role as an oil hub and security guarantor of the Persian Gulf and Central Asia. China’s special relation with Teheran was not only important for its regional geopolitical...