About the Book: Eurasia Twenty Years After
The volume focuses on Eurasia during the last two decades, which mark both the
disintegration of the Soviet Union and the appearance of fifteen new independent
states in the global arena. On the one hand, twenty years of the collapse of the
Soviet Union generated debates over the causes and consequences of the collapse.
On the other hand, there have been discussions on what the last two decades
meant for the emerging states, the individual and the community. The ways in
which the newly independent states perceive themselves-i.e. as sovereign
entities or as cosmopolitan spaces with pan-Iranian/pan-Turkic/pan-Mongol
linkages sharing