Perspectives on the Caspian Sea Dilemma: A Framing Comment
(2003). Perspectives on the Caspian Sea Dilemma: A Framing Comment. Eurasian Geography and Economics: Vol. 44, No. 8, pp. 617-622.
The Coming of Conflict to the Caspian Sea
Military conflict in the Caspian basin would have costly economic consequences.
Time and Heritage
As a historian studying what can be considered a form of intellectual history, I have slowly come to adopt Michel de Certeau’s observation made at the end of the 1980s that ‘objectifying the past, for the last three centuries, has undoubtedly left unconsidered time within a discipline that has continued to use it as a taxonomic instrument’. To a certain degree, time has become commonplace for the historian who has preserved or instrumentalized it. It is not considered because it is inconceivable, but because we do not think of it or, more simply, we do not think about it. As a historian attempting to pay attention to the time I’m living in, I have thus, like many others, noticed the swift development of the category of the present until it has become obvious that the present is omnipresent. This is what I refer to here as ‘presentism’.