Almost overshadowed by events in the Middle East and South Asia, Islam is playing an increasingly important role in the geopolitics of the Eurasian landmass from the Balkans to the Pacific.
Paul A. Goble, the world’s most prolific expert on the nationalities of the post-Soviet states, is teaching a unique course at IWP this summer on Islam and Geopolitics in Eurasia.
The survey course presents a rare opportunity for student and seasoned expert alike to study a dynamic movement in a part of the world presently obscured by events elsewhere, and the foreign policy challenges they pose for the US and the West generally.