Eurasia's new frontiers
Subtitle: young states, old societies, open futures
By: Thomas W. Simons, Jr.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780801447433
Subjects: Former Soviet republics -- Politics and government; Former Soviet republics -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- Former Soviet republics
Description: From the Publisher: In Eurasia's New Frontiers, Thomas W. Simons, Jr., a veteran U.S. diplomat/scholar with extensive experience in the Communist and post-Communist worlds, assays the main post-1991 developments in the fifteen successor states to the USSR drat compose Eurasia. He makes a compelling case that the United States can play a large role in shaping the future of this vast and strategic region at less cost than during Soviet times. This can be achieved, however, only if U.S. policy focuses on Eurasia's fledgling individual Nation-states.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : getting beyond Eurasia's DNA; title: The weakness of civil society; title: Politics as elite infighting; title: The politics of economics and sovereignty; title: States, nations, and nationalisms in Eurasia; title: Today's Eurasia and the United States.