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EURO-ASIA AT THE CROSSROADS

GEOPOLITICS, IDENTITIES AND DIALOGUES

Year: 2011

Bibliography: viii+236pp

ISBN: 9788175416000

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About the Book

The volume is a critical enquiry into the ways in which space is imagined, represented as well as resisted in geopolitical struggles and in everyday life. It attempts this enquiry through a number of articles that examines these issues in Europe and Asia and touches upon the intricate interplay between the 'geo-economics of hope' and the 'geopolitics of fear'. The insertion of a hyphen between 'Euro' and 'Asia' underlines the importance of differentiating the concept from the overwhelmingly military strategic connotation of the term 'Eurasia' or Eurasia as a geo-strategic space. A hyphenated relationship between Europe and Asia underlines the necessity of understanding Euro-Asia as pre-dominantly a socio-economic as well as political-cultural space of continental proportions. This is also a reminder that both 'Asia' and 'Europe' are highly heterogeneous places sharing the same continent.

The central argument of the book is that at the dawn of the 21st century the continent of Euro-Asia finds itself at crossroads, a historic juncture from where various alternative futures are possible. Consequently, wide-ranging alternative imaginations of the identities of places and peoples inhabiting and sharing this vast and diverse continent are also possible. Underlying the contention is the assumption that in the absence of such alternative visualizations of Euro-Asian dialogues anchored in the politics of autonomy and aiming at social transformation, gender justice and ecological-human security may not be possible.


About Author

Jyrki Kakonen is Jean Monnet Professor, Tallinn University, Emeritus Professor, University of Tampere and Former director of Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence, University of Tampere, Finland.

Sanjay Chaturvedi is Professor of Political Science and Honorary Director, Centre for the Study of Mid-West and Central Asia, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

Anita Sengupta is Fellow, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata.


Contents

Acknowledgements v

Introduction
Jyrki Kakonen and Sanjay Chaturvedi
1. On the Metageography of Euro-Asia
Pekka Korhonen
2. Euro-Asia: Cartographic Representations and Imaginations
Rudolf Wastl
3. The Geopolitics of Domination and the Clash of Imaginations in Central Eurasia: Continuity and Change
Sanjay Chaturvedi
4. Geostrategic Perspectives on Eurasia: Towards Multilateralism in Central Asia
Anita Sengupta
5. Turkey's Search for Identity: A Eurasian and Islamic Country
Ayla Göl
6. September 11, the Colour Revolutions and the Birth of Sovereign Democracy
Daragh McDowell
7. Region as a Space of Interacting Autonomies
Ranabir Samaddar
8. The Paradox of Cosmopolitan-Eurocentrism in the Rise the West
John M. Hobson
9. The EU in the Eurasian Space: An Alternative to the USA?
Jyrki Kakonen
10. Conceiving the Project of Eurasia through EU-India Cooperation
Rajen Harshe
Conclusion
Sanjay Chaturvedi and Jyrki Kakonen
Bibliography
Contributors
Index


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