From the 1830s onward, Baedeker guidebooks delivered the world to intrepid travelers. Learn how the 1914 Handbook for Russia presented the towns, coast, and countryside of Georgia, as well as the famous mountains to the north, to the European gaze.
Join our visiting scholars as they explore China’s, India’s, and Russia’s economic and political activity beyond their borders — from "hostile" investment in Central Europe to broad geopolitical engagement in the South Caucasus.
Kyrgyzstan’s populist mobilization in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic can be better understood as a story of re-politicization of a depoliticized polity.
