This text establishes the concept of Euro-Asia as the means to discuss the European and Asian countries that are undergoing post-Cold War transformation. Elements of the transitional changes covered include: conflicts and peacekeeping, geopolitical issues and economic realities.

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CHRISTOPH BLUTH Visiting Professor, Centre for Euro-Asian Studies, University of Reading, and Professor of International Studies, University of Leeds SIMON BOOTH Director of Studies, Graduate Centre of International Business, University of Reading JAN FRAIT Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic AMY MYERS JAFFE Energy Research Coordinator, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University MICHAEL KASER Emeritus Fellow, St Antony's College, University of Oxford OUMIRSERIK KASSENOV was the Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Kazakhstan MARTHA BRILL OLCOTT Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Professor of Political Science, Colgate University RICHARD POMFRET Professor of Economics, University of Adelaide LUDEK RYCHETNIK Member of the Centre for Euro-Asian Studies, and former Lecturer at the University of Reading GARETH M. WINROW Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University

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Part 1 The politics of security in Euro-Asia: Euro-Asian conflicts and peacekeeping dilemmas; the "game" of security in Central Asia; a new great game in the Transcaucasus?; the geopolitics of Caspian energy. Part 2 The Euro-Asian economies in transition: modernization, neo-modernization and the transformation strategy; economic transition in the Czech Republic - a real success?; economic misconduct in Eastern Europe; economic transition in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan; Central Asian regional integration and new trade patterns.