After Empire: The Emerging Geopolitics of Central Asia

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When the Soviet Union collapsed, no states were less prepared for independence than the 5 republics of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, & Tajikistan. This book includes papers & discussions presented at a conf. of scholars from the U.S., Russia, Europe, & the Middle East who gathered to examine the region's political, economic, social, & security evolution since 1989. The papers are arranged by themes: the struggle for identity; the roots of Islam in Central Asia: a brief primer; Moscow's security perspective, the commonwealth, & interstate relations; & security implications of the competition for influence among neighboring states.


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Examines the evolution of the new states comprising Central Asia & the Transcaucasus. Incorporates research papers presented at a conference of leading scholars who examined the regions political, economic, social, & security evolution since 1989. As the papers illustrate, the Wests image of Central Asia as a homogeneous belt of Islamic countries with uniform views of the regions future orientation is false. The hyperbolic prognoses of an Islamic implosion threatening to embroil the region in violent insurrections, possibly spreading throughout the former Soviet Union & the Middle East, are false as well.


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