Eurasia on the Edge

Piotr Dutkiewicz is professor of political science and the director of the Center for Governance and Public Policy, at Carleton University, Canada.Richard Sakwa is professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent.Fyodor Lukyanov is research director of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club.

• 1IntroductionRichard Burchill and Fyodor Lukyanov2Strategic Security in EurasiaNikolai Silaev and Andrei Sushentsov3 Regional Arrangements and Eurasian Security Richard Burchill & Ruta Karpauskaite4 Eurasian Integration and its Institutions: Possible Contributions to Security in EurasiaEvgeny Vinokurov & Alexander Libman5 Eurasian Security Constructs and Institutional CapacityLeah Sherwood6 Russia’s Eurasia Moment: Politics, Economics, BusinessTimofei Bordachev7Eurasia: A View from China’s Security Perspective Zhao Huasheng8 The European Union and Eurasia: Europe on the EdgeVincent Della Sala9. China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Eurasian SecurityYong Wang10 Security Issues in Eurasia Richard Weitz11Economic Security in the Eurasian Economic UnionLeonid Grigoryev12Central Asian Regimes: Stability and ReformIvan Safranchuk13 Interstate Relations in Central AsiaAndrei Kazantsev14 Managing Eurasia’s Borders: The European Union and International Organizations in Russia’s ‘Near Abroad’Martin Geiger15Borders and Waters: Compartmentalized Security in the Eurasian Heartland Viktoria Akchurina16Sino-Russia Strategic Understanding and the Changing International System Alexander Lukin17 Conclusion: Security in Eurasia – Further or Closer to the Edge?Piotr Dutkiewicz and Richard Sakwa

Eurasia on the Edge. . . offers a number of perspectives on key security issues in the Eurasian region and examines the efficacy of policies to boost mutual security. . . . the book advocates a top-down, state-centric approach to understanding and managing security that fits with regional understandings of security based on stability through authority. Eurasia on the Edge, then, reflects a certain vision of security in the region, one that is favoured by many of its governments, including Russia and China. The book’s greatest value is offering an insight into these non-Western perspectives on this key part of the world