Central Asia: its strategic importance and future prospects

Abstract

Notes on Contributors - Preface - Central Asia's Geopolitical Significance and Problems of Independence: An Introduction Hafeez Malik - The Russian Conquest of Central Asia and Kazakhstan: Motives, Methods, Consequences Seymour Becker - Soviet Reconquest of Central Asia Stephen Blank - Jadid Movement and Its Impact on Contemporary Central Asia Abdujabbar A. Abduvakhitov - Perestroika: Its Impact on the Central Asian Republics and the Future Relations of Moscow with Central Asian Republics Melvin Goodman - Impact of Afghanistan's War on the Former Soviet Republics of Central Asia Victor Spolnikov - Russia's Relations with the Central Asian States Since the Dissolution of the USSR Yuri V. Gankovsky - Central Asia and American National Interests Graham E. Fuller - The Problem of Nagorno Karabagh: Geography Versus Demography Under Colonialism and in Decolonization Tadeusz Swietochowski - Tragedy in the Aral Sea Basin: Looking Back to Plan Ahead? Michael H. Glantz, Alvin Z. Rubinstein, and Igor Zonn - Islam and Political Development of Tajikistan After 1985 Mavlon Makhamov - The Politics of Polarization in Tajikistan Muriel Atkin - Nationalism and Islamic Resurgence in Uzbekistan James Critchlow - New Relationships Between Central and Southwest Asia and Pakistan's Regional Politics Hafeez Malik -Turkish and Iranian Policies in Central Asia Oles M. Smolansky - Central Asia: Emerging Relations with the Arab States and Israel Carol R. Saivetz - Index