The New Geopolitics of Eurasia and Turkey's Position.(Book Review)

From: Middle East Quarterly | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Baran, Zeyno | Copyright information

The New Geopolitics of Eurasia and Turkey's Position. By Bulent Aras. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2002. 110 pp. $24.50.

The geopolitics of the Eurasian region and Turkish policy are important subjects, and this book would have made a good contribution had it been published in 1998. However, most of the data and analysis it contains now are severely outdated. In fact, most of the references date back to the mid- 1990s, leaving the reader with a sense that The New Geopo...

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