2017 History Institute "What is Eurasia? And Why Does It Matter?"

Michael Reynolds, Senior Fellow, FPRI; Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

presenting

Tsar and Sultan: Eurasia Between Russians and Turks

For much of the last several centuries, Eurasia has been divided between several great civilizations: Russian, Turkic, Persian, Chinese, and others. This session will focus on the interaction of Turkic and Russian groups in central and western Eurasia. It will note that cultural and religious divides often did not overlap with political boundaries, and will explore Eurasia's multicultural and multiethnic borderlands before the founding of modern nation states.