| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
New security challenges |
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New security challenges series.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: Including the Other Sides of Afghanistan; Stephen Aris and Aglaya Snetkov -- 2. Regional Dynamics of the Soviet War in Afghanistan and its Aftermath; Artemy M. Kalinovsky -- 3. Afghanistan's Attitudes towards the Region; Amin Saikal -- 4. Pakistan: Security Perspectives on Afghanistan; Shaun Gregory -- 5. Negotiating its Way In: India in Afghanistan; Rudra Chaudhuri -- 6. Underestimated and Ignored. Iran's Current Afghanistan Policy between Soft Power and Hard Measures; Andreas Wilde -- 7. The Other Power: Security and Diplomacy in Sino-Afghanistan Relations; Marc Lanteigne -- 8. Russia in Afghanistan: Enduring Interests, Domestic Challenges and Regional Strategies; Marl̈ne Laruelle -- 9. Towards conflict resolution in Afghanistan: The perspective of the bordering Central Asian Republics; Farkhod Tolipov -- 10. The Kazakh and Kyrgyz Sides of Afghanistan: So Near and Yet So Far; Emilbek Dzhuraev and Shairbek Dzhuraev -- 11. An institutionalized 'regional solution'? Regional organizations in the regional space surrounding Afghanistan; Stephen Aris -- 12. From Arc of Crisis to Arc of Opportunity? -- The Political Economy of Regional Economic Cooperation; Michaela Prokop -- 13. The Fight against Drug Trafficking: Mechanisms of Regional Cooperation and their Limits.; Sebastien Peyrouse -- 14. Conclusion; Stephen Aris and Aglaya Snetkov |
| Summary |
Afghanistan has been a primary topic on the international security agenda for most of the last three decades. In light of the ongoing US and NATO drawdown in operations and transfer of responsibility to Afghan authorities, the relationship between Afghanistan and its neighbouring states and regions has once again become paramount to stability in the wider region and beyond. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the perspective and approaches to Afghan security taken by the states bordering and in close proximity to Afghanistan, and the transnational dynamics that interconnect these states with Afghanistan and one another. On this basis, it examines the nature of the regional dimension to Afghan security, and assesses prospects for and likely nature of a regional mechanism for managing Afghan security and stability following the US and NATO withdrawal. Including case studies from Pakistan, Iran, China, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and proximate regional powers, namely India and Russia, this timely book will appeal to scholars across international relations, security studies and Asian studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Publisher supplied information |
| Subject |
National security -- Asia
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Geopolitics -- Asia
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International relations -- Afghanistan.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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Geopolitics
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International relations
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National security
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International relations -- Afghanistan.
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Politics and Government.
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| SUBJECT |
Afghanistan -- Relations
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| Subject |
Afghanistan
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Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Snetkov, Aglaya, editor
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Aris, Stephen, 1980- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781137330055 |
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1137330058 |
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9781137330048 |
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113733004X |
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