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[Agron Alibali]

"Zones of Conflict; US Foreign Policy in the Balkans and the Greater Middle 
East" by Vassilis K. Fouskas has just been published by Pluto press, London 
(Seven chapters-List of Abbreviations-Two maps-Bibliography-Index-182 
pages. ISBN: 0 7453 2029 5 paperback and 0 7453 2030 9 hardback - 
www.plutobooks.com).

The book offers a sustained analysis of US policy objectives after the Cold 
War in the Balkans, Central Asia and the Middle East. It also looks 
systematically at the hegemonic antagonism between key EU states, Russia, 
China and the US for the strategic control of Eurasia and its oil and gas 
producing zones.

Praises for the "Zones of Conflict"

"Finally, an excellent counterblast to Zbigniew Brzezinski, written with 
verve and intelligence", Donald Sassoon, Professor of Comparative European 
History, Queen Mary, University of London

"An interesting interpretation of US policy in what the author describes as 
the Eurasian region of the Balkans and the Greater Middle East", Stevan K. 
Pavlowitch, Professor Emeritus of Balkan History, University of Southampton

"Thanks to the 'Zones of Conflict' we have a refreshing new interpretation 
of post-Cold War American foreign policy that challenges basic assumptions 
of the American foreign policy establishment", Van Coufoudakis, Dean 
Emeritus and Professor Emeritus, Indiana, University-Purdue University, 
Fort Wayne and Rector Intercollege, Nicosia, Cyprus

"[Fouskas] is looking at both an interesting and under-theorised part of 
the world and the role of the US within it", Ray Bush, Senior Lecturer in 
Politics, University of Leeds

The author, Vassilis K. Fouskas, is the founding Editor of Journal of 
Southern Europe and the Balkans, Senior Research Fellow in European and 
International Studies at Kingston University, London, and a Leverhulme 
Fellow (2002-03).




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