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Title Central Eurasia in global politics : conflict, security, and development / edited by Mehdi Parvizi Amineh, Henk Houweling
Edition 2nd ed
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 365 pages) : illustrations
Series International studies in sociology and social anthropology, 0074-8684 ; v. 92
International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; v. 92. 0074-8684
International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; v. 92.
Contents The crisis in IR-theory : towards a critical geopolitics approach -- The geopolitics of power projection in US foreign policy : from colonization to globalization / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling -- Caspian energy : oil and gas resources and the global market / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling -- Nation-state building in Central Asia : a lost case? / Pinar Akçah -- Political processes in post-Soviet Central Asia / Shirin Akiner -- The economic and social impact of systemic transition in Central Asia and Azerbaijan / Michael Kaser -- Gendered transitions : the impact of the post-Soviet transition on women in Central Asia and the Caucasus / Armine Ishkanian -- Sino-Indian relations : security dilemma, ideological polarization, or cooperation based on "comprehensive security"? / Kurt Radtke -- The US and the EU in CEA : relations with regional powers / Eva Rakel -- Growing tension and the threat of war in the southern Caspian Sea : the unsettled division dispute and regional rivalry / Hooman Peimani -- The "power of water" in a divided Central Asia / Max Spoor and Anatoly Krutow -- A transnational policy for conflict reduction and prevention in the South Caucasus / Robert M. Cutler -- International challenges and domestic preferences in the post-Soviet political transition of Azerbaijan / Ayça Ergun
Summary This anthology brings together studies of post-colonial, post-Cold War Central Eurasia. This part of the world is in transition from Soviet institutions to independent statehood, nation building, resistance against state expansion, cultural change and the release of market forces. The theoretical framework of the study is called 'critical geo-politics.' The objective of the work is to better comprehend the nature of the post-colonial 'Great Game'. Part I studies US power projection activity in the region. America is extending its World War II transoceanic 'defense perimeter into the fossile fuel rich area between integrating Europe, recovering Russia and industrializing China. Part II details various aspects of state-nation building and soci-cultural and economic change in the region. Part III studies interactions between outsiders, neighbors and Central Asian Republics. Conflict and cooperation in the Caspian region is studied in part IV, with Aral Sea and Azerbijan as cases
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Post-communism -- Asia, Central
Geopolitics -- Asia, Central
Petroleum industry and trade -- Asia, Central
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Diplomatic relations
Economic history
Geopolitics
Petroleum industry and trade
Politics and government
Post-communism
Social conditions
Entwicklungsökonomie
Internationale Politik
Sicherheitspolitik
Geopolitiek.
SUBJECT Asia, Central -- Politics and government -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94001932
Asia, Central -- Foreign relations -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94001928
Asia, Central -- Social conditions -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93005283
Asia, Central -- Economic conditions -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97004732
Subject Central Asia
Kaukasusländer
Mittelasien
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Amineh, Mehdi Parvizi.
Houweling, Henk.
LC no. 2005042153
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