The U.S. Role in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 224
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Olga Oliker
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Published: 2003-04-02
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 0833048341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the region of Central Asia and South Caucasus, what is the potential for armed conflict, and how might such outbreaks escalate to a level that could involve U.S. forces? The authors evaluate the key political, economic, and societal faultlines underlying the likelihood of conflict in the region, assessing their implications for regional stability and for U.S. interests and potential involvement over the next 10 to 15 years.
Author: Robert Ebel
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2000-11-28
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0742578321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis timely study is the first to examine the relationship between competition for energy resources and the propensity for conflict in the Caspian region. Taking the discussion well beyond issues of pipeline politics and the significance of Caspian oil and gas to the global market, the book offers significant new findings concerning the impact of energy wealth on the political life and economies of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan. The contributors, a leading group of scholars and policymakers, explore the differing interests of ruling elites, the political opposition, and minority ethnic and religious groups region-wide. Placing Caspian development in the broader international relations context, the book assesses the ways in which Russia, China, Iran, and Turkey are fighting to protect their interests in the newly independent states and how competition for production contracts and pipeline routes influences regional security. Specific chapters also link regional issues to central questions of international politics and to theoretical debates over the role of energy wealth in political and economic development worldwide. Woven throughout the implications for U.S. policy, giving the book wide appeal to policymakers, corporate executives, energy analysts, and scholars alike.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rajan Menon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1315501724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive exploration of the international environment examines not only traditional political-military concerns but also economic, ethnic, and environmental issues and the role of crime, terrorism, the drug trade, and migration in the security environment of Russia and its neighbours to the south. This approach takes account of both the internal and external aspects of security problems and their interplay. The participation of international authors facilitates the consideration of each problem from all relevant points of view.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9780160565397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gary K. Bertsch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-08
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 113668445X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world's second largest reserves of petroleum lie beneath the land-locked Caspian Sea, making the Caucasus of vital importance to both regional and global economic and security interests. This book brings together experts from the US, Russia and the Caucasus to examine the issues of conflict, foreign policy tradeoffs, and security in the region. It takes into account the geopolitical factors, Western and Russian involvement, and the interaction between domestic and external pressures. Crossroads and Conflict looks at the challenges faced by these countries and examines the possibilities for future peace and prosperity in the region.
Author: Stephen Blank
Publisher: Strategic Studies Institute
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Clinton administration has proclaimed a strategy to engage and enlarge the democratic community of states. By virtue of their strategic location adjacent to Russia, the Middle East, and Europe s periphery, and their large-scale oil and natural gas deposits, Transcaucasia and Central Asia have become important testing grounds of this strategy. The U.S. goal of irrevocably integrating these states into the Western state system economically, politically, and militarily has made them an intensifying focus of international rivalry with Russia. Moscow still perceives these areas as part of its sphere of interest and deeply resents U.S. engagement there. Furthermore, Moscow's current war with the breakaway province of Chechnya demonstrates its willingness to contest expanding U.S. interests forcefully. Moreover, in this region many factors exist that could cause other conflicts. Accordingly, it is a sensitive place to test the strategic rationale of the engagement strategy and its military corollary, a strategy whose goal is to shape the emerging environment in directions that we wish to see. This monograph contributes to the debate that has just begun and which undoubtedly will last for a long time over what our strategy for the new states should be and how it should be carried out.
Author: Stephen Blank
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 1428911847
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