Central Asias Economic Rebirth In The Shadow Of The New Great Game

Author : Djoomart Otorbaev
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000848248
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central Asia's Economic Rebirth in the Shadow of the New Great Game written by Djoomart Otorbaev and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes the unique development of Central Asia as defined by its landlocked geography. Particular attention is paid to the achievements and challenges of the region’s post-Soviet economic and political transformation, as well as to its relationship with the participants in the New Great Game – Russia, China and the West. Located as it is in the geographical centre of booming Asia, and with the opportunity to become a key logistics bridge connecting the world’s largest economies, Central Asia is well placed for rapid development. However, the region faces a range of complex problems that are explained and analysed in the volume. The Eurasian powers that encircle Central Asia look certain to become the engines of global economic growth, but how will this affect the region? Will Central Asia join the powerful locomotive of history, or will it remain on the sidelines?

Author : Lutz Kleveman
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802141729
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Great Game written by Lutz Kleveman and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of The Prize, Lutz Kleveman gives us the twenty-first-century chapter on the history, passion, and politics of oil and gas resources, and the struggle to control them in a critical part of the world. Using the concept of the "Great Game" that Rudyard Kipling immortalized in his novel Kim, Kleveman argues that there is now a new Great Game in the region, a modern variant of the nineteenth-century clash of imperial ambitions of Great Britain and Tsarist Russia. Traveling thousands of miles, from Turkmenistan (where statues of the country's leader are made of gold and line the thoroughfares) to the Afghan Hindu Kush, Kleveman met with the principal Great Game actors between Kabul and Moscow: oil barons, generals, diplomats, and warlords. Based on extensive research and travel in the Caucasus, the Caspian, and Central Asia, The New Great Game is a thrilling travel narrative through one of the world's last unexplored frontiers, and a savvy and incisive analysis of the power struggle for the world's remaining energy resources.

Author : Alexander Cooley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199812004
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Games, Local Rules written by Alexander Cooley and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth century was the original "great game." But in the past quarter century, a new "great game" has emerged, pitting America against a newly aggressive Russia and a resource-hungry China, all struggling for influence over one of the volatile areas in the world: the long border region stretching from Iran through Pakistan to Kashmir. In Great Games, Local Rules, Alexander Cooley, one of America's most respected Central Asia experts, explores the dynamics of the new competition over the region since 9/11. All three great powers are pursuing important goals: basing rights for the US, access to natural resources for the Chinese, and increased political influence for the Russians. But Central Asian governments have proven themselves powerful forces in their own right, establishing local rules that serve to fend off foreign involvement, enrich themselves and reinforce their sovereign authority. Cooley's careful and surprising explanation of how small states interact with great powers in this vital region greatly advances our understanding of how world politics actually works in this contemporary era.

Author : Sébastien Peyrouse
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230114350
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China and India in Central Asia written by Sébastien Peyrouse and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at how China and India's growing interests in Central Asia disrupt the traditional Russia-U.S. 'Great Game' at the heart of the old continent. In the years to come, both Asian powers are looking to redeploy their rivalry on the Central Asian and Afghan theatres on a geopolitical, but also political and economic level.

Author : Dianne L. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781482339512
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central Asia: a New Great Game? written by Dianne L. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a new "Great Game" being played out in Central Asia? Boris Rumer argues that the successor states to the Russian and British empires have renewed the struggle for hegemony in the center of the Asian continent. As the world shifts from a bipolar to a multipolar focus, the nations of Asia search for new trans-regional security arrangements. More specifically, the breakup of the Soviet Union and the creation of five Central Asian republics (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan), have complicated the security relations of the Asian states. (See Figure 1.) But, this new struggle is not a repeat of the 19th century "Great Game," by which the Central Asian states are but pawns of great powers as they jockey for power and position. Instead, the Central Asian states themselves are active players in this struggle for power, in a unique geo-strategic position to influence immediate neighbors Russia, China, and Iran, and even beyond into the Indian subcontinent. Once considered a backwater of little importance during the Soviet era, Central Asia could play a pivotal role in Asian politics in the next decade.Enlargement and Engagement set domestic political stability, regional peace, and the maturation of market economies in the five Central Asian states as policy goals of the United States. The key to Asian, especially Central Asian, regional security is economic. A strong, vibrant market economy is a prerequisite for political stability and the growth of democracy. Political stability, however, is itself a key element to economic development; peace in the region, especially in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Kashmir, must be gained before that economic takeoff can occur.Serious political, economic, ethnic, religious, and social challenges confront the five new Central Asian states in this quest for regional security. How each state is able to confront and resolve these problems will determine its ability to emerge as a viable force in this struggle for influence, in this new "Great Game." Instability might seem to provide opportunities for states such as Iran or China to expand their influence, but the risks that such instability would ricochet back on them are too great. Thus, Iran, Pakistan, India, Russia and China each seek, in their own way, to promote stability within Central Asia while expanding their own regional influence.Implications for American security from this struggle derive from the U.S. desire to prevent existing problems within Central Asia from escalating into crises that might engage Iran, Pakistan, India, Russia or China. Therefore, we must first identify those centrifugal forces threatening Central Asia, then review each of these states in turn, to analyze their behavior, identify their regional objectives and state policies in relation to Central Asia, and evaluate the impact of Central Asia upon their own security. Doing so offers a better perspective on our own strategic interests in post-Cold War Asia.

Author : Anoushiravan Ehteshami
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780859894302
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Gulf to Central Asia written by Anoushiravan Ehteshami and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The demise of the Soviet Union, and the emergence of independent republics in its wake, have had profound implications for the regions on its periphery. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Caucasus and Central Asia. The essays in this book explore the complex ways in which these republics have found both independence and a new regional identity in their relations with the neighbouring Middle East. Religion, hydro-carbons, transportation needs and ethnic relations with the Gulf States have been rediscovered by the new republics, the study of which provides the basic subject matter for the book. The interests and activities of other regional powers are not excluded, with particular attention being given to the playing out of Russian, Turkish and American interests in countering the perceived rise of political Islam in the Caucasus and Central Asia.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781349287918
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China and India in Central Asia written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China and India growing interests in Central Asia disrupt the traditional Russian/U.S. "Great Game" at the heart of the old continent. Though for the moment India is unable to equally compete against the Chinese presence in post/Soviet Central Asia, New Delhi is well established in Afghanistan and has begun to cast its eyes more markedly toward the north to the shores of the Caspian Sea. In the years to come, both Asian powers are looking to redeploy their rivalry on the Central Asian and Afghan theaters on a geopolitical, but also political and economic level.

Author : Mohammed E. Ahrari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Great Game in Muslim Central Asia written by Mohammed E. Ahrari and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lutz Kleve Man
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781422353127
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Great Game written by Lutz Kleve Man and published by . This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fearless & exacting portrait of a new battleground in the violent politics & passion of oil: Central Asia. The Caspian Sea contains the world's largest amount of untapped oil & gas resources. Using the concept of the Great Game”, Kleveman argues that now a New Great Game rages in the region, a modern variant of the 19th-century clash of imperial ambitions of Great Britain & Tsarist Russia. Only this time the stakes are raised. Desperate to wean itself from dependence on the powerful OPEC cartel, the U.S. is now pitted in this struggle against Russia, China, & Iran, all competing for dominance of the Caspian region, its resources & pipeline routes. Also involved are the brash new entrepreneurs who have taken control after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Author : Gordon Press Publishers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780849061592
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Great Game in Muslim Central Asia written by Gordon Press Publishers and published by . This book was released on 1997-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: