Cross-border exchanges

Eurasian perspectives on logistics and diplomacy

Pierre Chabal, Esra LaGro, Turtogtokh Janar , Brigitte Vassort-Rousset

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English

PIE - Peter Lang
23 December 2019

Social mobility; Regional government policies; International relations

Series: New International Insights/Nouveaux Regards sur l’International

The main purpose of the book is to examine from numerous and distinct, albeit complementary perspectives how logistics feeds into region-building. The angle of approach is to reach resolutely beyond logistical and material aspects of border-crossing in order to tackle cultural, symbolic, identity-based as well as institutional, legal and political dimensions of the contemporary ‘pooling’ of sovereignties in today’s Eurasia. Thus, constitutive chapters of the book draw from analyses as remote as historical, environmental, diplomatic and cybernetic, to mention but a few. Its main conclusions are that region-building consists largely in concrete changes that affect material aspects of country-to-country dynamics, not just in material-political decisions even if these remain necessary to launch a novel process and to secure it into confidence-building. This blend of logics also involves a multi-scale evolution whereby both local (infra-regional) and regional (supra-national) levels, taken together, make sense. Hence, to probe into one dimension only – the changing nature of borders, both in Europe and Asia, from lines of sovereign divisions to passage-points for exchanges –, induces the bilateral and multi-lateral capacity to ‘innovate’ within long-term historical givens and to turn nationalistic hostility into dynamics of multiplication of shared exchanges and profits. From a methodological requirement, comparing what seems at first, very different – a fully integrating Europe and a newly co-operative Asia – makes it possible, on the face of it, to uncover and decipher dynamics that are similar in their essence (regional, post-war) even if they differ in details (institutional idiosyncrasies, hurdles).

Edited by: Pierre Chabal
Series edited by: Pierre Chabal, Esra LaGro, Turtogtokh Janar, Brigitte Vassort-Rousset
Imprint: PIE - Peter Lang
Country of Publication: Belgium
Edition: New edition
Volume: 12
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9782807613157
ISBN 10: 2807613152
Series: New International Insights/Nouveaux Regards sur l’International
Pages: 386
Publication Date: 23 December 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Pierre CHABAL, alumnus of IEP-Grenoble (PhD, Pol. Sc.) & EUI-Florence, Dr. Habil. (HDR) in IR (Paris IEP), teaches at Le Havre University and Europe-Asia campus of Paris IEP. He published with Peter Lang L’Organisation de coopération de Shanghai et la construction de la ""nouvelle Asie"" (2016) and Concurrences Interrégionales Europe-Asie au 21ème siècle (2015). Jildiz NICHARAPOVA, Dr. PhD in Political Science of the IEP in Aix-en-Pce, France, and professor at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) in Bishkek, where she heads the research department. She co-edited with S. Peyrouse Integration processes and State interests in Eurasia (AUCA & US AID, 2018). Kuralay BAIZAKOVA, Sc. Dr. in History of IR, Prof. and former Dean of Dpt of IR of al-Farabi KazNU; Dir. of Institute for Security and Cooperation Studies (Almaty). She authored The conceptual foundations of the multi-vector foreign policy of Kazakhstan (2017) and The cooperation with NATO in the multi-vector foreign policy of Kazakhstan (2017).