What kind of region: Spatial constructs in the populist era .................................... 7
Vsevolod Samokhvalov

The Global Region: a Concept for understanding Regional Processes
in Global Era ................................................................................................................. 15
Maria Lagutina

Strategy Amidst Ambiguity: The Belt and Road
and China’s Foreign Policy Approach to Eurasia ..................................................... 41
Peter Braga and Kaneshko Sangar

Central Asia: construction of the new regional security complex?...................... 69
Akram Umarov

Energy Policy in the Arctic: Yamal LNG in Russian International and
domestic political agenda .......................................................................................... 83
Nina Lavrenteva

Popular Imagery, Competing Narratives and Pan-Slavism:
the Case of Ukraine’s Break-away Regions ...........................................................105
Ivanna Machitidze

NATO in the Black Sea Region: Unpredictability and Different
Levels of Commitment among the Three Coastal Allies.........................................131
Valentin Naumescu

Book Review/Compte rendu
The Intermarium as the Polish-Ukrainian Linchpin of Baltic-Black
Sea Cooperation by Ostap Kushnir (ed.) .................................................................153
Margaryta Khvostova

Presentation of the journal/Présentation de la Revue............................................157