The Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at CSIS is excited to announce our upcoming event with Dr. Jeffrey Mankoff, discussing his latest book, Empires of Eurasia: How Imperial Legacies Shape ...

Introduction / Hyun Jin Kim and Frederik Juliaan Vervaet -- Part I. Political organization and interactions of Eurasian empires -- The political organization of steppe empires and their contribution ...

OH, EAST is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet. Perhaps that was true when an Iron Curtain ran down the middle of Europe, and Mao Zedong’s China had turned disastrously inward. But ...

Inroduction -- 1. Pastoral nomads and the Empires of the Steppe -- 2. Early China: Prelude to the Silk Roads -- 3. Zhang Qian and Han Expansion into Central Asia -- 4. The Early Han Dynasty and the ...

VLADIMIR Putin's twisted vision of Eurasia as an enormous Russian empire of influence, with Moscow's power covering all of Europe and much of Asia, is helping to drive his bloody war in Ukraine. Putin ...

Russian policy makers are relying on the precedents established by the US military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq to justify Moscow's own push to forge a "liberal empire" in the Caucasus and ...

(05/09/22) Vladimir Putin blames his war in Ukraine on a planned assault on Russia led by U.S-backed neo-Nazis, despite evidence that Putin is ‘now mirroring the ...

Escape From Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity, by Walter Scheidel, Princeton University Press, 670 pages, $35 Walter Scheidel makes a dramatic claim in Escape From Rome: The ...

Last week leaders of the EU and China met at a summit in Beijing to praise “EU-China connectivity”. It is more than an empty phrase, even if European leaders are less clear-sighted about its ...

TARTU, Estonia, April 13 (UPI) -- Moscow is sending a very negative message to Muslims living in the Russian Federation but a very positive one to Muslim leaders abroad in the hopes of gaining their ...