Title The long game on the Silk Road : US and EU strategy for Central Asia and the Caucasus / S. Frederick Starr, Svante E. Cornell

Published Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018] ©2018

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Description 1 online resource Contents The Long Game On The Silk Road; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Setting the Scene: Central Asia and the Caucasus, 1991-2016; 3. Western Activity and Achievements in the Caucasus and Central Asia; 4. A Deeper Look: Shortcomings of Western Policy; 5. Structural Problems and their Solutions; 6. Updating and Upgrading Strategic Assumptions and Practices; 7. The Way Ahead; Authors; Index Summary "This book argues that American and European policies toward Central Asia and the Caucasus suffer from both conceptual and structural impediments. It traces the framework of Western policies to the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, which resulted in the stovepiping of relations into political, economic, and democracy categories - and in often uncoordinated or contradictory policies. While the authors embrace the goal of promoting human rights and democracy, they argue that the antagonistic methods adopted to advance this goal have proven counter-productive. They propose that Western governments work with the regional states rather than on or against them; and that instead of focusing directly on political systems, policies should focus on developing the quality of governance and help build institutions that will be building blocks of rule of law and democracy in the long term. The authors also argue that Western leaders have largely failed to grasp the significance of this region, relegated it to a subordinate status and thus damaging western interests. The development of sovereign, economically strong, and effectively self-governing states in the Caucasus and Central Asia is an important goal in its own right; the book stresses the importance of a region where the development and preservation of secular statehood could become a model for the entire Muslim world."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 20, 2018) Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. Diplomatic relations SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- Asia, Central Asia, Central -- Foreign relations -- United States United States -- Foreign relations -- Caucasus Caucasus -- Foreign relations -- United States Europe -- Foreign relations -- Asia, Central Asia, Central -- Foreign relations -- Europe Europe -- Foreign relations -- Caucasus Caucasus -- Foreign relations -- Europe Subject Central Asia Caucasus Europe United States Form Electronic book Author Cornell, Svante E., author ISBN 9781538114650 1538114658

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