Central Eurasia
Subtitle: prize or quicksand? : contending views of instability in Karabakh, Ferghana and Afghanistan
By: Kenneth Weisbrode.
Contributors: International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Series: Adelphi paper,; 338; Adelphi papers ;; no. 338.
Publisher: Oxford University Press for the International Institute for Strategic Studies
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, 1988-1994; Ethnic conflict -- Fergana Valley; Political stability -- Asia, Central; Social conflict -- Asia, Central; Social conflict -- Caucasus; Political stability -- Caucasus; Fergana Valley -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 1973-
Other titles: Contending views of instability in Karabakh, Ferghana and Afghanistan
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [87]-96).