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May 28, 2013

The 20th century was dominated by three visions of Eurasian geopolitics: ‘The World Island,’ ‘Containment,’ and ‘Prometheism.’ “The World Island: Eurasian Geopolitics and the Fate of the West” posits a fourth vision of Eurasian geopolitics: the 21st-century Geopolitical Strategy for Eurasia. Through an original and comprehensive analysis and synthesis of the ideas of Sir Halford […]

May 28, 2013

What do City speculators, Gulf oil sheikhs, Chinese entrepreneurs, big-name financiers like George Soros and industry titans like Richard Branson buy when they go shopping? Land. Parcels the size of Wales are being snapped up across the plains of Africa, the paddy fields of Southeast Asia, the jungles of the Amazon and the prairies of […]

April 20, 2013

China is rising. But how should the West – and the United States in particular – respond? This could be the key geopolitical question of the twenty-first century, according to strategic expert Hugh White, with huge implications for the future security and prosperity of the West as a whole. The China Choice confronts this fundamental […]

April 18, 2013

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has developed into a key regional security group in Asia, its member states representing no less than “half of humanity”. Alarmists believe that the SCO is making itself into a NATO of the East, thus posing a long-term threat to the West. Moreover, several members are key players in economic […]

March 2, 2013

In this new edition of his acclaimed book, Olivier Roy examines the political development of Central Asia, from the Russian conquests to the ‘War on Terror’ and beyond.During the anti-Gorbachev coup in August 1991, most communist leaders from Soviet Central Asia backed the plotters. Within weeks of the coup’s collapse, these very same leaders – […]

February 2, 2013

The updated edition of Secret Affairs covers the momentous events of the past year in the Middle East. It reveals the unreported attempts by Britain to cultivate relations with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt after the fall of Mubarak, the military intervention on the side of Libyan rebel forces which include pro-al-Qaeda elements, and the […]

December 5, 2012

Geopolitics and Empire examines the relations between two phenomena that are central to modern conceptions of international relations. Geopolitics is the understanding of the inter-relations between empires, states, individuals, private companies, NGOs and multilateral agencies as these are expressed and shaped spatially. This view of the world achieved notoriety as the scientific basis claimed by […]

October 20, 2012

Croatia, Between Europe and the Balkans addresses the key developments in economics, politics, international relations and social policy in the state over the last decade. It places these developments in their historical context, and shows how current policy dilemmas are structured within the conflicting pressures which historically have pulled Croatia between a European, a Mediterranean […]

October 20, 2012

For nearly 60 years–from its uprising against British rule in the 1950s, to the bloody civil war between Greek and Turkish Cypriots in the 1960s, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the 1970s, and the United Nation’s ongoing 30-year effort to reunite the island–the tiny Mediterranean nation of Cyprus has taken a disproportionate share of […]

October 8, 2012

Situated between Greece on the south, the former Yugoslavia on the north and east, and the Adriatic Sea on the west, Albania is the country the world forgot. Throughout this century, Albania has been perceived as primitive and isolationist by its neighbors to the west. When the country ended fifty years of communist rule in […]

Category: Demographic Sociology

The World Island: Eurasian Geopolitics and the Fate of the West (Praeger Security International)

The Landgrabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns The Earth

The China Choice: Why We Should Share Power

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Eurasian Geopolitics: New Directions, Perspectives, and Challenges

The New Central Asia: Geopolitics and the Creation of Nations’

Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion with Radical Islam

Geopolitics and Empire: The Legacy of Halford Mackinder (Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series)

Book: “Croatia: Between Europe and the Balkans (Postcommunist States and Nations)”

Book: “The Cyprus Problem: What Everyone Needs to Know”

Book: “Albania: From Anarchy to Balkan Identity”

Israel - Gaza conflict - a short retrospective of the

Libya hit by apocalyptic floods

شهادات صادمة لمهاجرين والسلطات التونسية

The Senegalese authorities investigate videos of armed civilians during the protests

A site in Zawiya city has been bombed with the use of drones

Libya hit by apocalyptic floods

The Senegalese authorities investigate videos of armed civilians during the protests

A site in Zawiya city has been bombed with the use of drones