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100 1 _aAshkenova, Gulden.
_968274
245 1 4 _aThe Central Asia-Afghanistan Relationship :
_bFrom Soviet Intervention to the Silk Road Initiatives.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bBloomsbury Publishing USA,
_c2020.
264 4 _c©2020.
300 _a1 online resource (283 pages)
336 _aText
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aComputermedien
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aOnline Resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aContemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures Series
500 _aE-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
505 0 _aCover -- 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.
505 8 _aTajik 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.
505 8 _aA 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.
520 _aCentral 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.
648 _a1979-
_968307
650 _aInternationale Politik
650 _aWirtschaftsbeziehungen
651 _aAfghanistan
_96096
651 _aMittelasien
651 _aSowjetunion
651 _aUSA
653 _aAsia, Central--Foreign relations--Afghanistan.
655 _aFernzugriff
_9230
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aDiener, Alexander.
_968275
700 1 _aGiustozzi, Antonio.
_95980
700 1 _aKalinovsky, Artemy M.
_968276
700 1 _aLaruelle, Marlene.
_920702
700 1 _aPannier, Bruce.
_968277
700 1 _aPeyrouse, Sebastien.
_968278
700 1 _aRaballand, Gael.
_968279
700 1 _aRakisheva, Bota.
_968280
700 1 _aStepanova, Ekaterina.
_968281
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aAshkenova, Gulden
_tThe Central Asia-Afghanistan Relationship
_dNew York : Bloomsbury Publishing USA,c2020
_z9781498546546
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