prize or quicksand? : contending views of instability in Karabakh, Ferghana and AfghanistanWeisbrode, Kenneth.creatorInternational Institute for Strategic StudiestextbibliographyBookHistoryenkOxfordNew YorkOxford University Press for the International Institute for Strategic Studies2001monographiceng

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96 pages : maps ; 24 cm."A decade after the demise of the Soviet Union, the newly independent states to Russia's south remain poor and remote from the developed world. Living standards have fallen throughout the region, while the energy wealth envisioned in the mid-1990s never materialised. Most governments have grown more corrupt and less stable. Responsibility for this state of affairs rests partly on an exaggerated and misplaced view, particularly popular among influential Western analysts, that the region is a natural, or even desirable, setting for imperial conflict. This view has skewed the policies of local actors away from much needed cooperation with one another and with more powerful neighbours. The major powers with interests in Central Eurasia - particularly the US - need to re-examine their fundamental assumptions about the region and what they want from it. Until they do, neither peace nor development will be possible and conditions will only deteriorate."--Jacket.New area on the map -- Karabakh and the South caucasus -- Ferghana and Central Asia -- Afghanistan.Kenneth Weisbrode.Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-96).a-af---ac-----e-urk-- fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vB9Pg4rdgGV6J74f8Xm Since 1900 fast Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, 1988-1994Ethnic conflictFergana ValleyPolitical stabilityAsia, CentralSocial conflictAsia, CentralSocial conflictCaucasusPolitical stabilityCaucasusCivil warAfghanistanGeopoliticsCaucasusGeopoliticsAsia, CentralConflict managementAsia, CentralConflict managementCaucasusIntervention (International law)Petroleum industry and tradeAsia, CentralPetroleum industry and tradeCaucasusConflit du Nagorno-Karabakh, 1988-1994Petroleum industry and tradeIntervention (International law)GeopoliticsConflict managementCivil warEthnic conflictPolitics and governmentPolitical stabilitySocial conflictFergana ValleyPolitics and government20th centuryAfghanistanPolitics and government1973-AfghanistanPolitics and government1989-2001Asia, CentralStrategic aspectsCaucasusStrategic aspectsAsia, CentralHistory1991-Asia, CentralHistory1991-Asia, CentralStrategic aspectsAsiaFergana ValleyCaucasusAsia, CentralPolitics and government1991-CaucasusPolitics and governmentNagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan)Politics and governmentCaucasusForeign relationsNagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan)Foreign relationsFarghona (Uzbekistan)Foreign relationsAfghanistanForeign relationsU162 A3 W44 p.33801985107052002277380http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0636/2002277380-t.htmlhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0723/2002277380-b.htmlhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0702/2002277380-d.htmlhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0636/2002277380-t.htmlhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0723/2002277380-b.htmlhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0702/2002277380-d.htmlDBI02031220240607092259.0ocm47053821 eng