This book examines 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.
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).