-- Part I. The geopolitics of Eurasia: growing east-west confrontation -- From retrenchment to revanchism--and back again …Introduction: Eurasian integration, central Asia and the new geopolitics of energy / Roger E. Kanet and Matthew Sussex …? Russian grand strategy in the Eurasian heartland / Matthew Sussex -- Is Russia's foreign policy schizophrenic? / Dina …

Central Asia : the end of the transition / Boris Rumer -- Russia and Central Asia : problems of security / Irina … -- Economic ties between Russia and Kazakhstan : dynamics, tendencies, and prospects / Stanislav Zhukov and Oksana Reznikova …

is still an economic powerhouse, it no longer dominates the world economy or geopolitics as it once did. The current turn …