Alexandros Petersen

Alexandros Petersen was the author of The World Island: Eurasian Geopolitics and the Fate of the West (Praeger: 2011). A scholar of grand strategy and energy geopolitics, he served as an Advisor to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. He was widely published in The Economist, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, as well as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and the National Interest. He appeared on the BBC, Sky News, CTV and NPR. He was killed in a bomb blast in Kabul, Afghanistan in January 2014.

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Jamestown Analyst Alexandros Petersen Killed in Taliban Attack

01.21.2014 Alexandros Petersen

The Jamestown Foundation is deeply saddened by the sudden and tragic death of Dr. Alexandros Petersen in a bomb blast that occurred last weekend in...

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China and Central Asia in 2013

01.18.2013 Raffaello Pantucci

In the last two years, China has emerged as the most consequential outside actor in Central Asia. As we have described in other writings, China’s...

Publication China Brief Central Asia

China’s Latest Piece of the New Silk Road

01.10.2013 Alexandros Petersen

While the concept of a “New Silk Road” of trade, transport and telecommunications connections across Eurasia was formally endorsed by the US State Department, it...

Publication Eurasia Daily Monitor Central Asia

Shifts in Beijing’s Afghan Policy: A View From the Ground

11.05.2012 Raffaello Pantucci

In a clear but still gradual shift over the past year, Chinese policymakers have changed their stance on Afghanistan from cultivated disinterest to growing engagement....

Publication China Brief Afghanistan