Bøger af Nick Megoran

Mackinder argued that control of a 'pivot' or 'heartland' of Eurasia, including Central Asia, would prove key to the balance of global power. This idea has had profound effects on foreign policy debates, which are discussed in this timely volume

Nick Megoran explores the process of building independent nation-states in post-Soviet Central Asia through the lens of the boundary between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, using a combination of political, historical, ethnographic, and geographic frames to shed new light on this process.