Oil, transition and security in Central Asia
By: Sally N. Cummings (ed.).
Contributors: Cummings, Sally N.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- Asia, Central.; Post-communism -- Asia, Central.; Asia, Central -- Politics and government -- 1991-; Asia, Central -- Economic conditions -- 1991-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Sally N. Cummings; title: Country surveys; title: 1. Independent Turkmenistan: from post-communism to sultanism / Annette Bohr; title: 2. Kazakhstan: managing heterogeneity / Sally N. Cummings; title: 3. Kyrgyzstan: liberalisation and economic reform / Meg Luckins; title: Uzbekistan: ten years of gradualism or stagnation? / Stuart Horsman; title: 4. Tajikistan: independent Tajikistan: ten lost years / Rafis Abazov; title: Politics and society; title: Constitutional change in Central Asia / John Anderson; title: In search of civil society in Central Asia; title: Sergei Gretsky; title: Continuity and change in the societies of Central Asia and the Caucasus: a theoretical approach / Anna Zelkina; title: Turkmenistan: the political elite in an ethnic society / Shokhrat Kadyrov; title: Nation-building and language standardisation in Kazakhstan; title: Pol Kolsto; title: Agricultural restructuring in Kyrgyzstan: the next phase / Malcolm D. Childress; title: The Caspian, oil, pipelines and the environment; title: Caspian oil and gas: how far have we come and where are we going? / John Roberts; title: Perspectives on the political risk system for Western multinational oil company; title: Investment in Central Asia; title: Peter Riches; title: The Caspian states of the former Soviet Union: economic performance since 1998 / Helen Boss Heslop; title: The Caspian sea: the management and politisation of the maritime ecosystem in a period of transition / Stuart Horsman; title: Central Asian water problems: the role of international law / Alan Boyle; title: Security and geopolitics; title: Central Asian military reform: national, regional, and international influences / Roy Allison; title: Russian national interests and its policies in the Caspian geopolitical region / Habibollah Abolhassan Shirazi; title: Some geopolitical peculiarities of Central Asia, past and present / Talga T. Ismagambetov; title: Eurasian manoeuvres / John Erickson.