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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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 -- 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Geopolitics--Asia, Central.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DK859.M251.C468 1996