Central Asia Today

Countries, Neighbors, and the Region

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• Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9783736947320
• Print ISBN:
  9783954047321
• Edition: 1

This collection of descriptions and analyses from scholars from Central Asia, Xinjiang, Kashmir, and Siberia gives first a general overview about the geopolitics, economics, and politics of the Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgizstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) plus a details description of their foreign policy towards their neighborhood, the region, and the further abroad (Russia, India, China). This is complemented by studies on the relations between Central Asia on the one side and China, India, and Russia on the other hand. Secondly, the history, problems, and pers-pectives of the Central Asian regionalization and trans-regional (SCO, OSCE) process is discussed and evaluated. Third, problems such as Islamism in Central Asia are studied.The book is not only a coherent handbook on Central Asia but presents the views of the academic generation of the newly independent Central Asian countries. It gives a comprehensive overview about foreign policies and Central Asian relations with the big neighbors China, Russia, and India as well as a differentiated discussion on the regionalization process.

Table of contents

• Content
• INTRODUCTION
• Part I The Countries of the Region
• KAZAKHSTAN AND CENTRAL ASIA
• KYRGYZSTAN AND CENTRAL ASIA
• TAJIKISTAN AND CENTRAL ASIA
• TURKMENISTAN AND CENTRAL ASIA
• UZBEKISTAN AND CENTRAL ASIA
• Part II The Neighboring Countries
• XINJIANG (CHINA) AND CENTRAL ASIA
• INDIA AND CENTRAL ASIA
• RUSSIA AND CENTRAL ASIA
• Part III Central Asia as a Region
• PATTERNS OF REGIONALISM IN CENTRAL ASIA
• INTEGRATION IN CENTRAL ASIA
• MULTILATERAL RELATIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA: STATUS,CHALLENGES, AND PROSPECTS
• THE REGIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SHANGHAICOOPERATION ORGANIZATION (SCO) IN LIGHT OFAFGHANISTAN’S INSTABILITY
• CENTRAL ASIAN POLITICAL EXPERIENCES WITHIN THESHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION (SCO)
• THE OSCE IN TAJIKISTAN:A CASE OF POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS OFEXTERNAL ACTORS IN STABILIZING WEAK STATES
• RETHINKING ISLAM IN CONTEMPORARY CENTRAL ASIA
• THE COLLISION OF FAITH AND CULTURE IN CONTEMPORARYCENTRAL ASIA: REFLECTIONS ON MUSHTAQ KAW’S“RETHINKING ISLAM IN CONTEMPORARY CENTRAL ASIA”
• ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS