"Eurasia: A New Peace Agenda" includes chapters from a distinguished group of Eurasian scholars, journalists, and diplomats. The volume is focused on a new peace agenda grounded in a dialogue among the Eurasia civilizations. Part I deals with the problems and prospects of such a dialogue and its consequences for world peace. Part II focuses on the old dilemmas and new challenges in Eurasian security. The nuclear arms race, religious resurgence, super-terrorism, militarism, imperialism, and confidence building are among the topics. Part III concentrates on globalization and regionalization as...

Globalization has brought different civilizations and peoples into new and closer contact, but this novel intimacy has not always led to greater understanding. On the one hand, the Western infatuation with the East, nurtured and developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, has sometimes been replaced by fear and distaste. On the other hand, the Eastern fascination with Western scientific and technological marvels has at times given way to a loathing of arrogance, materialism, and militarism. Global terrorism is the scourge of our times, while intense anxiety is increasingly bound up...