Central Asia : its strategic importance and future prospects /

Central Asia : its strategic importance and future prospects / [print] edited by Hafeez Malik. - first paperback edition. - New York : St. Martin's Press, (c)1996. - xi, 337 pages ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Central Asia's geopolitical significance and problems of independence The Russian conquest of Central Asia and Kazakhstan Soviet reconquest of Central Asia The Jadid movement and its impact on contemporary Central Asia Perestroika Impact of Afghanistan's war on the Former Soviet republics of Central Asia Russia's relations with the Central Asian states since the dissolution of the Soviet Union Central Asia and American national interests The problem of Nagorno-Karabagh Hafeez Malik -- Seymour Becker -- Stephen Blank -- Abdujabbar A. Abduvakhitov -- Melvin Goodman -- Victor Spolnikov -- Yuri V. Gankovsky -- Graham E. Fuller -- Tadeusz Swietochowski (cont) Tragedy in the Aral Sea basin Islam and the political development of Tajikstan The politics of polarization in Tajikstan Nationalism and Islamic resurgence in Uzbekistan New relationships between central and southwest Asia and Pakistan's regional politics Turkish and Iranian policies in central Asia Central Asia: emerging relations with the Arab states and Israel. Michael H. Glantz, Alvin Z. Rubenstein, and Igor Zonn -- Mavlon Makhamov -- Muriel Atkin -- James Critchlow -- Hafeez Malik -- Oles M. Smolansky --




Geopolitics--Asia, Central.

DK859.M251.C468 1996