This is a major new study of the successor states that emerged in the wake of the collapse of the great Russian, Habsburg, Iranian, Ottoman and Qing Empires and

This is a major re-evaluation of Soviet foreign policy in the Eurasian borderlands from the Revolution to the Cold War.

Winner of the Norris and Carol Hundley Award Winner of the U.S.–Russia Relations Book Prize A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year The Cold War divis

A major new account of the Eurasian borderlands as 'shatter zones' which have generated some of the world's most significant conflicts.

This book examines the deterioration of relations between the USSR and China in the 1960s, whereby once powerful allies became estranged, competitive, and incre