TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION: INTER-IMPERIAL RELATIONS

PART I: THE WEST'S EAST

1 BRUSSELS: THE NEW ROME

2 THE RUSSIAN DEVOLUTION

3 UKRAINE: FROM BORDER TO BRIDGE

4 THE BALKANS: EASTERN QUESTIONS

5 TURKEY: MARCHING EAST AND WEST

6 THE CAUCASIAN CORRIDOR

CONCLUSION: STRETCHING EUROPE

PART II: AFFAIRS OF THE HEARTLAND

7 THE SILK ROAD AND THE GREAT GAME

8 THE RUSSIA THAT WAS

9 TIBET AND XINJIANG: THE NEW BAMBOO CURTAIN

10 KAZAKHSTAN: "HAPPINESS IS MULTIPLE PIPELINES"

11 KYRGYZSTAN AND TAJIKISTAN: SOVEREIGN OF EVERYTHING, MASTER OF NOTHING

12 UZBEKISTAN AND TURKMENISTAN: MEN BEHAVING BADLY

13 AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN: TAMING SOUTH-CENTRAL ASIA

CONCLUSION: A CHANGE OF HEART

PART III: THE END OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE

14 THE NEW RULES OF THE GAME

15 MEXICO: THE UMBILICAL CORD

16 VENEZUELA: BOLÍVAR'S REVENGE

17 COLOMBIA: THE ANDEAN BALKANS?

18 BRAZIL: THE SOUTHERN POLE

19 ARGENTINA AND CHILE: VERY FRATERNAL TWINS

CONCLUSION: BEYOND MONROE

PART IV: IN SEARCH OF THE "MIDDLE EAST"

20 THE SHATTERED BELT

21 THE MAGHREB: EUROPE'S SOUTHERN SHORE

22 EGYPT: BETWEEN BUREAUCRATS AND THEOCRATS

23 THE MASHREQ: ROAD MAPS

24 THE FORMER IRAQ: BUFFER, BLACK HOLE, AND BROKEN BOUNDARY

25 IRAN: VIRTUES AND VICES

26 GULF STREAMS

CONCLUSION: ARABIAN SAND DUNES

PART V: ASIA FOR ASIANS

27 FROM OUTSIDE IN TO INSIDE OUT

28 CHINA'S FIRST-WORLD SEDUCTION

29 MALAYSIA AND INDONESIA: THE GREATER CHINESE CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE

30 MYANMAR, THAILAND, AND VIETNAM: THE INNER TRIANGLE

31 SIZE MATTERS: THE FOUR CHINAS

CONCLUSION: THE SEARCH FOR EQUILIBRIUM IN A NON-AMERICAN WORLD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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