Eurasia’s third revisionist power, Iran, has its own imperial tradition: It is the descendent of both the Persian Empire and the Pahlavi dynasty, which ruled until 1979.

Recent DNA analysis from remains excavated at sites in Hungary's Carpathian Basin has cracked open the mystery of the origins ...

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 ...

In other words, empires don’t have friends – they have either enemies or dependencies,” said Mr. Torbakov, the Eurasia scholar, or exist in what Russian strategists term “imperial or ...

Compounding the empire’s problems was a succession of natural disasters, famines, and plagues (among which we can count Europe’s Black Death) that swept Eurasia in the fourteenth century ...

The Xiongnu (209 BCE -- 98 CE) and Mongol (916-1125 CE) empires that bookend this period had especially large impacts on the demographics and geopolitics of Eurasia, but due to a lack of large ...

A century after the Armistice that ended World War I on the Western Front, much of the world remains haunted by the legacies of that conflict, as Jeffrey Mankoff, deputy director and senior fellow ...