Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. A Note on Transliteration xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Russia
7. 1. Russian Identity Between Empire and Nation 23
8. 2. Russia’s Borderlands and the Territorialization of Identity 44
9. 3. Russia’s Near Abroad and the Geopolitics of Empire 60
10. TURKEY
11. 4. Those Who Call Themselves Turks: Empire, Islam, and Nation 89
12. 5. On the Margins of the Nation and the State: Turkey’s Kurdish Borderland 107
13. 6. The Geopolitics of the Post-Ottoman Space 123
14. Iran
15. 7. Iranian Identity and Iran’s “Empire of the Mind” 153
16. 8. Iran’s Borderlands: The Non-Persian Periphery 169
17. 9. Greater Iran (Iranzamin) and Iran’s Imperial Imagination 189
18. China
19. 10. Civilization and Imperial Identity in China 213
20. 11. China’s Inner Asian Borderlands 231
21. 12. Sinocentrism and the Geopolitics of Tianxia 251
22. Conclusion: A World Safe for Empire? 269
23. Notes 277
24. Index 343