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 ...

There is a tendency for historians to study Japan within the limited regional context of East Asia—China, Korea, and Japan. Sugiyama Kiyohiko illustrates how a broader, Eurasian perspective can shed ...

The ghosts of empire are haunting Eurasia. President Xi Jinping’s China is seeking to reclaim the power and privileges of the great dynasties that once bestrode Asia. President Vladimir Putin is ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article reviews a collection of twenty-six studies on Eurasia in Late Antiquity, edited by Nicola Di Cosmo and Michael Maas (2018). Aside ...

Ferenc Csirkés is an expert on linguistic, religious, and political identities in early modern Eurasia. He is the 2022-23 Jack and Nancy Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar at The Faculty of Arts ...

A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Stitcher, TuneIn and Tumblr. Asian players are proving to be conceptually and bureaucratically better positioned in the 21 st ...

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 ...