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Cover -- The Central Asia- Afghanistan Relationship -- The Central Asia- Afghanistan Relationship -- Contents -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part I -- The Legacy of the Soviet Intervention -- Chapter 1 -- Central Asian Soldiers and the Soviet War in Afghanistan -- War and the Making of Soviet Identity -- The Context of Intervention -- The Performance of Central Asians -- VETERANS as a Group -- The Interviews -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- An Oral History of the Soviet-Afghan War -- Note -- Part II -- Afghanistan 's Nort hern Neighbors: Perceptions and Chalenges -- Chapter 3 -- Afghanistan's Multicentered Regional Foreign Policy -- Policies toward Pakistan -- Policies toward India -- Policies toward Iran -- Policies toward China -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- Russia's Policy on Afghanistan -- Russia's Main Concerns: Regional Security and Narcotics -- Threat of Spillover of Militancy and Extremism and the ISIS Factor -- The Afghan Narcotics Challenge -- Russia's Strategy and Approaches to the Afghan Problem -- Russia's Security and Counter-Narcotics Response -- Russia, the Political Transition, and the Peace Process in Afghanistan -- Russia and Reconstruction and Development in Afghanistan -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- Assessing Uzbekistan's and Tajikistan's Afghan Policies -- Uzbek and Tajik Afghan Policies and Their Decision-Making Mechanisms -- Uzbekistan's Centralized Afghan Policy -- Tajikistan's Multifaceted Afghan Policy -- Transactional Policies -- Afghanistan as a Miror of Regimes' Anxieties: The "Islamist Threat" Narative -- The Mistakenly Formulated "Islamist Threat" -- Uzbekistan's Risk of Spillovers -- Tajikistan's Risk of Spillovers -- Relevance and Limits of the "Proxy" Angle -- Knowledge Production and Localy Produced Scenarios -- Tightly Controlled Uzbek Knowledge Production.

Tajik Knowledge Production: Afghanology as Self-Projection -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6 -- Insurgent Activities at the Afghan- Turkmen and Afghan-Tajik Borders -- Pakistan's Military Operations in North Waziristan -- Northeast Provinces -- Northwest Afghanistan -- Tajikistan's Reaction and Positioning -- Turkmenistan's Reaction and Positioning -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part III -- The Silk Road Initiati ve as a US Project for Central Asia and Afghanistan -- Chapter 7 -- Parsing Mobilities in Central Eurasia -- Mobilities, Transborder Linkages, and the Global Economy -- New Silk Road Strategies and the Relativity of Mobility -- The West's New Silk Road Strategies -- The West and Central Eurasia's Border Management -- Perceptions of the West's New Silk Road Initiative -- China's New Silk Road Initiative -- Russia's Perspective on Mobilities in Central Eurasia -- Russia's Soft Power Parsing of Mobilities -- Central Asian States -- Kazakhstan -- Kyrgyz Republic -- Tajikistan -- Turkmenistan -- Uzbekistan -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8 -- The US Silk Road -- Non-US Vision of the Silk Road: Competing Imaginations and Interests -- Origins and Framing of the US "New Silk Road" -- The US Silk Road: An Elusive Geopolitical Construct -- Policy Criticisms -- Conflating the NDN and the Silk Road -- Missing Pieces of the Puzzle -- A Flawed Historical Metaphor -- Geopoliticizing US Involvement -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 9 -- The New Silk Road Initiative's Questionable Economic Rationality -- Between Established Commercial Flows and Rival Projects: PROSPECTS FOR the New Silk Road Initiative in Central Asia Regional Tra -- The Secondary, but Not Insignificant, Roles of Iran and Turkey -- Prospects and Limits of Trade Exchanges between Central Asia and South Asia -- The New Silk Road Initiative: Stakes and Limits of Economic Rationality.

A Route on a Map or a Road Rehabilitation Does Not Create Traffic and Trade Automatically -- Lack of Regional Cooperation and Governance Issues -- Past Experiments as Lessons for the Future? -- "Distance as an Essential Criterion": A Historical-Economic Misinterpretation? -- Conclusion: A Way Forward for Aid for Trade in Central Asia? -- Notes -- List of Acronyms -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Editor -- Contributors.

Central Asia is a relatively understudied neighbor of Afghanistan.The region is often placed into a number of historical and political contexts--a section of the Silk Road, a pawn in the "Great Game," the "spillover" state that exemplifies the failure of US foreign policy--that limit scholarly understanding.This edited volume contributes by.