Central Asia Views From Washington Moscow And Beijing

Author : Eugene B. Rumer,Dmitri Trenin,Huasheng Zhao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315289519

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Central Asia: Views from Washington, Moscow, and Beijing by Eugene B. Rumer,Dmitri Trenin,Huasheng Zhao Pdf

The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 rapidly and irrevocably transformed Central Asia's political landscape. This region of five sovereign states with a population of some fifty million people quickly became a major focus of interest and influence for competing poles of power. The eminent contributors to this volume offer a four-part analysis of the region's new importance in world affairs. Rajan Menon examines the place of Central Asia in a global perspective. Eugene Rumer considers the perspective of the post-9/11 United States. Dimitri Trenin looks at the region from the standpoint of traditional hegemon Russia. Huasheng Zhao provides the view from economic superpower-in-the-making China.

Author : Eugene B. Rumer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 1315289539

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Central Asia by Eugene B. Rumer Pdf

Author : Michael Mandelbaum
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 0876091672

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Central Asia and the World by Michael Mandelbaum Pdf

With the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, its fifteen constituent republics suddenly found themselves sovereign states. Among the new countries are the five republics of Central Asia - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan - that comprise the region to the south of the great Russian heartland. Each of these countries now faces the task of creating its own foreign policy: with one another, with its former imperial ruler to the north, with the Islamic countries to the south, and with the West. In Central Asia and the World, eight experts on the region address the historic power struggles between east and west and north and south that have shaped the region and the prognosis for success in overcoming a turbulent past and an uncertain, divided present. In addition to its continuing strong ties to Russia, Central-Asia's links with its southern neighbors and the potential role of Islam are also examined. The authors advance the case that these countries are critical to the West insofar as they affect Western interests in Russia and the Middle East. The ongoing civil war in Tajikistan and Central Asia's relationship with China are also addressed. The first book to examine the complex issues facing the region Central Asia and the World provides a comprehensive overview of the developing foreign policies of these five new countries, including a look at the internal political, economic, and military issues confronting each country.

Author : Hasan H. Karrar
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774858946

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The New Silk Road Diplomacy by Hasan H. Karrar Pdf

With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, independent states such as Kazakhstan sprang up along China's western frontier. Suddenly, Beijing was forced to confront internal challenges to its authority at its border as well as international competition for energy and authority in Central Asia. Hasan Karrar traces how China cooperated with Russia and the Central Asian republics to stabilize the region, facilitate commerce, and build an energy infrastructure to import the region's oil. While China's gradualist approach to Central Asia prioritized multilateral diplomacy, it also brought Beijing into direct competition with the United States, which views Central Asia as vital to its strategic interests.

Author : David B. H. Denoon
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781479810864

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China, The United States, and the Future of Central Asia by David B. H. Denoon Pdf

The first of a three-volume series on the interaction of the US and China in different regions of the world, China, the United States, and the Future of Central Asia explores the delicate balance of competing foreign interests in this resource-rich and politically tumultuous region. Editor David Denoon and his internationally renowned set of contributors assess the different objectives and strategies the U.S. and China deploy in the region and examine how the two world powers are indirectly competitive with one another for influence in Central Asia. While the US is focused on maintaining and supporting its military forces in neighboring states, China has its sights on procuring natural resources for its fast-growing economy and preventing the expansion of fundamentalist Islam inside its borders. This book covers important issues such as the creation of international gas pipelines, the challenges of building crucial transcontinental roadways that must pass through countries facing insurgencies, the efforts of the US and China to encourage and provide better security in the region, and how the Central Asian countries themselves view their role in international politics and the global economy. The book also covers key outside powers with influence in the region; Russia, with its historical ties to the many Central Asian countries that used to belong to the USSR, is perhaps the biggest international presence in the area, and other countries on the region’s periphery like Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, and India have a stake in the fortunes and future of Central Asia as well. A comprehensive, original, and up-to-date collection, this book is a wide-ranging look from noted scholars at a vital part of the world which is likely to receive more attention and face greater instability as NATO forces withdraw from Afghanistan.

Author : Elizabeth Wishnick
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781584873792

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Russia, China, and the United States in Central Asia by Elizabeth Wishnick Pdf

The monograph then addresses the policy implications for the United States of the shifting regional picture in Central Asia. Despite the fissures within the SCO and the competitive tendencies within the Sino-Russian partnership, the monograph asserts that United States will not have an easy time achieving its aims in Central Asia. American policy goals--

Author : Stephen Blank,Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781584874874

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Central Asian Security Trends by Stephen Blank,Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute Pdf

The war in Afghanistan has added considerably to the strategic significance of Central Asia due to its proximity to the conflict. Moreover, the continuation of the war increasingly involves the vital interests of many other actors other than the U.S. and NATO forces currently there. This monograph, taken from SSI's conference ("Contemporary Issues in International Security") with European and Russian scholars in 2010, provides a comprehensive analysis of the means and objectives of Russia's involvement in Central Asia. It provides Russian perspectives concerning the other actors in Central Asia and how Moscow views the policy significance of those efforts, and a French analysis of the strategic situation evolving there. For obvious reasons: the war in Afghanistan, proximity to major global actors, large energy holdings, and for less obvious reasons, i.e., that possibility that domestic instability in one or more of these states could spread to other Muslim states as we now see in the Arab revolutions of 2011, Central Asia is an increasingly important and interesting region.

Author : Bates Gill,Matthew Oresman
Publisher : CSIS
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 089206434X

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China's New Journey to the West by Bates Gill,Matthew Oresman Pdf

Author : Peter Ferdinand
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032300058

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The New Central Asia and Its Neighbours by Peter Ferdinand Pdf

In Central Asia, hope and anxiety have alternated since the collapse of the Soviet Union. On the one hand the peoples of Central Asia are now closer to being masters of their destiny than at any time this century. On the other hand the civil war in Tajikistan is a constant reminder of the fragility of ethnic relations in the region as a whole. Meanwhile other states, especially neighbouring ones, look on nervously.

Author : David Denoon
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781479844333

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China, The United States, and the Future of Central Asia by David Denoon Pdf

The first of a three-volume series on the interaction of the US and China in different regions of the world, China, the United States, and the Future of Central Asia explores the delicate balance of competing foreign interests in this resource-rich and politically tumultuous region. Editor David Denoon and his internationally renowned set of contributors assess the different objectives and strategies the U.S. and China deploy in the region and examine how the two world powers are indirectly competitive with one another for influence in Central Asia. While the US is focused on maintaining and supporting its military forces in neighboring states, China has its sights on procuring natural resources for its fast-growing economy and preventing the expansion of fundamentalist Islam inside its borders. This book covers important issues such as the creation of international gas pipelines, the challenges of building crucial transcontinental roadways that must pass through countries facing insurgencies, the efforts of the US and China to encourage and provide better security in the region, and how the Central Asian countries themselves view their role in international politics and the global economy. The book also covers key outside powers with influence in the region; Russia, with its historical ties to the many Central Asian countries that used to belong to the USSR, is perhaps the biggest international presence in the area, and other countries on the region’s periphery like Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, and India have a stake in the fortunes and future of Central Asia as well. A comprehensive, original, and up-to-date collection, this book is a wide-ranging look from noted scholars at a vital part of the world which is likely to receive more attention and face greater instability as NATO forces withdraw from Afghanistan.

Author : Daniel Markey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 9780190680190

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China's Western Horizon by Daniel Markey Pdf

Under the ambitious leadership of President Xi Jinping, China is zealously transforming its wealth and economic power into potent tools of global political influence. But China's foreign policy initiatives, even the vaunted "Belt and Road," will be shaped and redefined as they confront theground realities of local and regional politics outside China. In China's Western Horizon, Daniel S. Markey, a scholar of international relations and former member of the U.S. State Department's policy planning staff, previews how China's efforts are likely to play out in its own "backyard:" theswath of Eurasia that includes South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Drawing from his extensive interviews, travels, and historical research, Markey describes how perceptions of China vary widely within states like Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Iran.The region's powerful and privileged groups often expect to profit from their connections to China, while others fear commercial and political losses. Similarly, statesmen across Eurasia are scrambling to harness China's energy purchases, arms sales, and infrastructure investments as a means tooutdo their strategic competitors, like India and Saudi Arabia, while negotiating relations with Russia and America. On balance, Markey anticipates that China's deepening involvement will play to the advantage of regional strongmen and exacerbate the political tensions within and among Eurasianstates. To make the most of America's limited influence in China's backyard (and elsewhere), he argues that U.S. policymakers should pursue a selective and localized strategy to serve America's aims in Eurasia and to better compete with China over the long run.

Author : Emilian Kavalski
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814466684

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New Central Asia, The: The Regional Impact Of International Actors by Emilian Kavalski Pdf

This book focuses on Central Asia's place in world affairs and how international politics of state-building has affected the Asian region, thus filling the gaps in ongoing discussions on the rise of Asia in global governance. It also attempts to generalize and contextualize the “Central Asian experience” and re-evaluate its comparative relevance, by explaining the complex dynamics of Central Asian politics through a detailed analysis of the effects of major international actors — both international organizations as well as current and rising great powers.

Author : Sahibzada Muhammad Usman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781666913019

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Different Approaches on Central Asia by Sahibzada Muhammad Usman Pdf

This book explains Central Asia's different perceptive, especially in the economic, security, and energy fields. The book also clarifies the influence of America, Russia, Europe, and China on Central Asian countries. Central Asia and international players' current association depends on geographic, political, economic, and security factors. Central Asia sits at the center of the Asian continent, a region rich in history and culture. This region benefits from a mixture of national identities that have been developed carefully for many decades. Central Asia consists of five former Soviet nations, as it is currently defined: Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan. This book discusses several issues involves in Central Asia.

Author : European Society for Central Asian Studies. International Conference
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 3825883094

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Central Asia on Display by European Society for Central Asian Studies. International Conference Pdf

Despite its geostrategic importance and its easier accessibility since the dissolvent of the Soviet Union, Central Asia has nevertheless remained a white spot on the map of western scholarship and public awareness. Bringing together papers presented at the VII ESCAS-Conference, this volume aims to shed light on the historical, political, cultural and socio-economic development of this region. Scholars from within and outside Central Asia discuss a wide range of topics, covering historical processes and events on the one hand and present developments of regional and global concern on the other.

Author : Michael E. Clarke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136827068

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Xinjiang and China's Rise in Central Asia - A History by Michael E. Clarke Pdf

This book provides an account of how Beijing's evolving integrationist policies in Xinjiang have influenced its foreign policy in Central Asia since the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949, and how the policy of integration is related to China's concern for security and to its pursuit of increased power and influence in Central Asia.