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Review. Black Sea, by Neal Ascherson, is reviewed.

This is an examination of the awareness of environmental and social justice issues in the former Soviet republics - from the Western-style democracies of the Baltic region to the totalitarian regimes of Central Asia - and the resulting activism in those states.

Review.

Post-Soviet countries have emerged as a contested linguistic space, where disagreements over language and education policies have led to demonstrations, military conflicts and even secession. This collection offers a comparative analysis of language and education policies and practices in post-Soviet countries

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 Walking on the Edge -- 2 Regionals Unfolding in the Former Soviet Space -- 3 Research Questions and Research Plan -- References -- Chapter 2 Region-Building in the Former Soviet Space -- 1 The Former Soviet Space as a Region -- 2 Fragmentation and Reintegration -- 3 New Avenues for Thinking About the Post-Soviet Region (and Why We Need Them) -- 3.1 To Deconstruct -- 3.2 To Spin -- 3.3 To Comprise -- 3.4 To Compare -- 4 The Way Forward -- References -- Chapter 3 The Paradox of Russian Hegemony -- 1 Russia: Region-Builder and Region-Shaper? -- 2 Hegemony by Default, Hegemony by Improvisation -- 3 Hegemony and Its Objectors: An Unstable Equilibrium -- 4 Paradoxical Russia: Problematic Exceptionalism -- 5 The Way Forward -- References -- Chapter 4 Post-Soviet States and Post-Soviet Regions -- 1 Parallel "Creative" Paths: The Region and the State -- 2 Inside-Out and Outside-In Facets of Co-constitution -- 3 Why Study Foreign Policy (Comparatively) -- 4 How to Study Foreign Policy (Comparatively) -- References -- Chapter 5 The Inside-Out Facet: State Identity and Regional Imaginaries -- 1 Main Features of Georgian Foreign Policy -- 2 Main Features of Kyrgyz Foreign Policy -- 3 Main Features of Moldovan Foreign Policy -- 4 Georgia and the Region(s) -- 5 Kyrgyzstan and the Region(s) -- 6 Moldova and the Region(s) -- 7 Comparative Analysis -- References -- Chapter 6 The Outside-In Facet: Regional Models of Governance Transfer? -- 1 The Transfer of Standards to Post-Soviet Regimes: Towards a Model of "Regional Clusterisation" -- 2 Sovereignty-Shaping Bureaucracy-Boosting Regionalism -- 3 Regional Arenas and the Fundamentals of the State -- 4 Regionalisation of Internal Security Objectives -- References