About the Book

The book attempts to address problems associated with resuscitation of the Eurasian paradigm, which has resulted in renewed debates and discussions about a space that though imagined as a 'heartland' has tended to be represented as a periphery. There have been reappraisals about culture and identity that relate not only to the present but also re-contextualizes the past. There is increasing recognition of the need for new methodological terminologies that take note of these alternative perspectives in the present context. The book presents an opportunity not only for reflecting and reviewing existing ideas but also reformulating and conjoining them in ways that better reflect the reality of the region.

About Author

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

Contents

Preface
1. Endangered Heartland: Russian Central Asia between Domestic and External Geopolitics
Vladimir Boyko

2. Towards a New Paradigm of International Relations: The Implications of Central Asian Geopolitics
Farkhod F. Tolipov

3. Virtual Regionalism and Protective Integration in Central Asia
Roy Allison

4. Eurasian Doctrine of Kazakhstan: Historical, Social and Political Parametres
Sattar F. Mazhitov

5. Central Asia, Siberia and Asian Russia: Theoretical Approaches and Methodological Reappraisals of Connotations and Terminology
Evgeny Vodichev

6. The Roles of Small Regions in Intercultural Relations and Conflicts: The Bökey Horde, Gorno-Badakhshan and Abkhazia1
Uyama Tomohiko

7. Authority as Accomplishment: Intergenerational Dynamics in Talas, Northern Kyrgyzstan1
Judith Beyer

8. Muslim Travelers from Russia to the Ottoman Empire: Some thoughts on a Research Agenda
Norihiro Naganawa

9. Creation of the Composite Draft of the Buryat Heroic Epic 'Geser' in the Context of the Project of Nation Building
Marina N. Baldano

10. A Passage from India: Rahul Sankrityayana's Intercultural Quests
Jeta Sankrityayana

11. Linguistic Security during the Period of Acceleration of Economic and Socio-cultural Globalisation and Self-identification of Nationalities
Maria Gritsko

12. The Role of Language in Forming Modern Society in Kazakhstan
Anna Yessengaliyeva

13. Language Socialisation and the Benefits of Bilingualism Today
S.A. Meiramova

14. Tajikistan in a Changing Eurasia: Reorientation?
Dr. Muzaffar Olimov and Dr. Saodat Olimova

15. Post-Soviet Migration of Mongolian-Kazakhs to Kazakhstan
Sharad K. Soni

16. New Russian 'Middle East Concept' in Eurasia
P.L. Dash

17.Energy: : The New Vector in Alliances in Eurasia
Sreemati Ganguli

18. Central Asia and Caucasus: New Paradigms
Abdolmajid Eskandari

19. Competing Geopolitical Interests and Conflicts in the Caucasus
Ajay Patnaik

20. Central Asia: Challenges of Regional and International Cooperation
Mirzokhid Rakhimov

21. Problems of Regional Organisations in Countering Non-traditional Threats in Central Asian Countries and its Neighbours
Oybek N. Makhmudov
Contributors
Index

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