US Policies in Central Asia
Subtitle: Democracy, Energy and the War on Terror
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781138642041
Subjects: Asia, foreign relations; United states, foreign relations, asia; Asia, politics and government
Description: "Democracy promotion, security and energy are the predominant themes of US policy in Central Asia after the Cold War. This book analyses how the Bush administration understood and pursued its interests in the Central Asia states, namely Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan. It discusses the shift in US interests after September 11 and highlights key ideas, actors and processes that have been driving US policy in Central Asia. The author examines the similarities between the Bush and Obama administrations’ attitudes towards the region, and he points to the inadequacy of the personality focused, partisan accounts that have all too often been deployed to describe the two presidential administrations. To understand US Central Asian policy, it is necessary to appreciate the factors behind its continuities as well as the legacies of the September 11 attacks."