CENTRAL EURASIA - PRIZE OR QUICKSAND? by Kenneth Weisbrode ( 9780198510703 )

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CENTRAL EURASIA - PRIZE OR QUICKSAND?
CONTENDING VIEWS OF INSTABILITY IN KARABAKH, FERGHANA AND AFGHANISTAN

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ISBN 10:

0198510705

ISBN 13:

9780198510703

Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

30 September, 2000

Series:

Adelphi Series No. 338

Pages:

120

Description:

Critically examines the fundamental assumptions behind the regional policies of major power governments. While this paper does not dismiss the many internal causes of instability, it focusses on the significance of the region to outside powers and the role those powers have played on the ground and in the symbolic realm.

Synopsis:

This paper argues that the major powers have played a central role in fomenting a logic of regional rivalry that has prevented Central Eurasia from developing the critical foundations of co-operation that are necessary to produce the kind of post-Soviet stability one finds in Europe. While the paper does not dismiss the many internal causes of instability, it chooses to focus on the significance of the region to outside powers and the role those powers have played, both on the ground and in the symbolic realm. It does so by tracing the involvement of major powers in three particularly rich areas of instability - Karabakh, Ferghana and Afghanistan. Each case illustrates divergences between rhetorical policy and actual interests, and shows how the former have hindered the latter.

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4 Maps

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Imprint:

Oxford University Press

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Returnable

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