Central Asia And Regional Security

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While security concerns have assumed salience across the globe, Afghanistan’s proximity to Central Asia has meant that security or perceptions of insecurity dominate the strategic discourse in the region. Issues that stand out include the challenges that the Central Asian states will face in terms of stability, ethnic tensions, radicalization of youth, destabilization of commodity flows and energy security and the impact that these could have on Central Asian society. However, security cannot just be defined in terms of security at the borders. It needs to be defined in ‘cosmopolitan’ terms through an array of issues like movements across borders, radicalism within states, the sharing of water, and various multilateral attempts at combating insecurity. This volume is an attempt to focus on some of these issues that reflect on perceptions of security principally from Indian and Uzbek positions. It examines shifts over the last two decades, from debates on the geopolitical importance of the region from a great game perspective to the salience of new engagements within the international arena.

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Author : Mr P L Dash
Publisher : KW Publishers Pvt Ltd
Release : 2014-02-15
File : 310 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789385714528


Regional Security And The Future Of Central Asia

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The breakup of the USSR created a Central Asian security complex or sphere of influence consisting of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, this security complex has tended to distance itself from a Russian-centered approach to foreign relations, has rejected involvement with a Turkey-oriented sphere of influence, and has shifted toward an Iran-oriented security complex. A major reason for these developments has been the activities of the three rival powers—Iran, Turkey, and Russia. As Peimani explains, these states have strong long-term interests in the region; earlier rivalries, which were dormant under Soviet rule, have reawakened since the breakup of the USSR. While Russia attempts to reincorporate Central Asia into its security complex, Iran and Turkey seek to include it in their spheres of influence. The rivalry among these states will largely determine the future development of the region and the individual states.

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Genre : History
Author : Hooman Peimani
Publisher : Praeger
Release : 1998-06-25
File : 176 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015047093474


Central Asian Security

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This volume is the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the strategic reconfiguration of Central Asia as Russia has become more disengaged from the nations in the region and as these nations have developed new relations to the south, east, and west. The international implications are enormous because of the rich energy sources—oil and natural gas—located in the Caspian Sea area. The authors assess a variety of internal security policy challenges confronting these states—for example, the potential for conflict arising from such factors as a mixed ethnic population, resource scarcity, particularly in relation to water management, and an Islamic revival. They also examine the security policy content of relations between the Central Asian states and regional and international powers—specifically the stakes, interests, and policies of Russia, China, Iran, Turkey, and the United States. These internal challenges and the evolution of relations with external powers may result in new cooperative relationships, but they may also lead to destabilizing rivalry and interstate enmity in Central Asia. It is important to identify new patterns of relevance for future security cooperation in the region, but the potential for a new security system or for new institutions to manage security in the region remains uncertain. These issues are explored by a team of prominent specialists from Western Europe, the United States, Russia and China.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Roy Allison
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release : 2004-05-13
File : 300 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0815798539


Afghanistan And Central Asia

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Papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop entitled as "NATO, the Fight against International Terrorism in Afghanistan and Security Situation in Central Asia since 9/11," held at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey between April 10-11, 2011.

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Genre : History
Author : Oktay F. Tanrisever
Publisher : IOS Press
Release : 2013
File : 256 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781614991786


Regional Security In Central Asia

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Genre : Political Science
Author : S. Neil MacFarlane
Publisher : Kingston, Ont. : Centre for International Relations, Queen's University
Release : 1995
File : 102 Pages
ISBN-13 : NYPL:33433049454758


The Security Foreign Policy And International Relationship Of Kazakhstan After Independence

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Genre : Asia, Central
Author : Murat Turarovich Laumulin
Publisher :
Release : 2002
File : 220 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015057582770


The Regional Security Puzzle Around Afghanistan

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Western military presence wanes in Afghanistan and a transformed security environment challenges borders and stability in Central Asia. This book examines how the tensions relating to the reorganization of external military presence interact with regional states’ ambitions and challenge the borders already contested by numerous dividing lines. It studies a complex political landscape across which radical Islam connected with international terrorism is feared to spread as the international mission initiated in the wake of the 9/11 attacks winds down.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Helena Rytövuori-Apunen
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Release : 2016-05-23
File : 340 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783847409120


Exploring Regional Security South And Central Asia

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Contributed articles.

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Genre : Asia, Central
Author : Bhaskar Chakrabarty
Publisher :
Release : 2003
File : 288 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015061109792


Regional Security In The Asia Pacific

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The September 2001 terrorist attacks shocked the world. But what did they change? In this book Asia specialists from academe and policy think tanks assess the impact of 9/11 on the Asia Pacific. Drawing on unique fieldwork, access to a wide range of documents and inside expertise, the authors consider how old geo-strategic and cultural fault lines have been overlaid with new security threats from state and non-state actors. With chapters on specific countries and regions, defense policies, terrorism, and current and potential conflict zones, this collection critically examines the Asia Pacific region's post-9/11, as well as post-Iraq war, security architecture.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Marika Vicziany
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Release : 2004-03-25
File : 296 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1781959900


Critical Approaches To Security In Central Asia

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Central Asia remains on the periphery, both spatially and in people’s imaginations. When the region does attract international attention, it is often related to security issues, including terrorism, ethnic conflict and drug trafficking. This book brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplines including geography, anthropology, sociology and political science to discuss how citizens and governments within Central Asia think about and practise security. The authors explore how governments use fears of instability to bolster their rule, and how securitized populations cope with (and resist) being labelled threats through strategies that are rarely associated with security, including marriage and changing their appearance. This collection examines a wide range of security issues including Islamic extremism, small arms, interethnic relations and border regions. While coverage of the region often departs from preconceived notions of the region as dangerous, obscure and volatile, the chapters in this book all place emphasis on the way local people understand security and harmony in their daily lives. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of Central Asian Studies as well as Security Studies and Political Science. The chapters were originally published in the journal Central Asian Survey.

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Genre : History
Author : Edward Lemon
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2020-05-21
File : 310 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780429656903