Key Players and Regional Dynamics in Eurasia

JOHN BERRYMAN Associate Professor in International Studies at the American Institute for Foreign Study, UK: teaches International Relations at Birkbeck College, University of London, UKSTEPHEN J. BLANK expert on the Soviet bloc and the post-Soviet world at the Strategic Studies Institute's of the U.S. Army War College, USAAMIT DAS GUPTA Scientific Collaborator in the Institute for Contemporary History of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of GermanySANDRA FERNANDES Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Minho, PortugalP. TERRENCE HOPMANN Professor of International Relations; Director of the Conflict Management Program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University, USAHEIDI KJÆRNET Research Fellow at the Energy Programme of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)MOHIADDIN MESBAHI Professor of International Relations at Florida International University (FIU), Miami, FlorIda, USA and the Director of Middle East Studies CentreBERTIL NYGREN Associate Professor of Political Science at the Swedish National Defence College and at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, SwedenALBERTO PRIEGO is currently teaching at the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas in Madrid, SpainRICHARD SAKWA Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury and an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of InternationalAffairs, Chatham House, UK

• Introduction Russia in Eurasia: External Players and Regional Dynamics; M.R.Freire & R.E.Kanet PART I: THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE GREATER CASPIAN BASIAN Russia and the CIS Region: The Russian Regional Security Complex; B.Nygren International Rivalries in Eurasia; S.Blank Eurasia at the Heart of Russian Politics: Dynamics of (In)Dependence in a Complex Setting; M.R.Freire PART II: EXTERNAL POWERS, RUSSIA AND EURASIA Russia and the Greater Caspian Basin: Withstanding the U.S. Challenge; R.E.Kanet Competing for Eurasia: Russian and European Union Perspectives; S.Fernandes &  L.Simão Russia and China in Eurasia: The Wary Partnership; J.Berryman India and Central Asia; A.D.Gupta Eurasia between Russia, Turkey and Iran; M.Mesbahi PART III: INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AND NON-STATE ACTORS, RUSSIA AND EURASIA Senseless Dreams and Small Steps: The CIS and CSTO Between Integration and Cooperation; R.Sakwa The Atlantic Alliance in Eurasia: A Different Player?; A.Priego Intergovernmental Organisations and Non-State Actors, Russia and Eurasia: The OSCE; P.T.Hopmann Strategic Resources, Strategic Players: The Role of National versus International Oil Companies in Post-Soviet Eurasia; H.Kjærnet Conclusion; M.R.Freire