TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weisbrode,Kenneth
ED  - International Institute for Strategic Studies.
TI  - Central Eurasia: prize or quicksand? : contending views of instability in Karabakh, Ferghana and Afghanistan 
T2  - Adelphi paper,
SN  - 0198510705
AV  - U162 A3 W44 p.338
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press for the International Institute for Strategic Studies
KW  - Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, 1988-1994
KW  - Ethnic conflict
KW  - Fergana Valley
KW  - Political stability
KW  - Asia, Central
KW  - Social conflict
KW  - Caucasus
KW  - Civil war
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - Geopolitics
KW  - Conflict management
KW  - Intervention (International law)
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade
KW  - Conflit du Nagorno-Karabakh, 1988-1994
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 1973-
KW  - 1989-2001
KW  - Strategic aspects
KW  - History
KW  - 1991-
KW  - Asia
KW  - nli
KW  - Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan)
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Farghona (Uzbekistan)
KW  - Book
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-96); New area on the map --; Karabakh and the South caucasus --; Ferghana and Central Asia --; Afghanistan
N2  - "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
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0636/2002277380-t.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0723/2002277380-b.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0702/2002277380-d.html
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