280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, new states - most of them muslim - emerged in central Asia and the Caucasus. These new states proved to be both oil-rich and central in the strip of conflict and instability that stretches from central Europe to the Far East. This volume draws attention to previously neglected issues which could result in conflict: * the water problem... Read more
Part 1: A New Region of International Importance? Part 2: A New Round in an Old Game? Russia, Iran and Turkey Part 3: Birds of a Feather? Central Asian regional concerns Part 4 Between Democracy and Authoritarianism? The states of Central Asia
Biography
Moshe Gammer received his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan and of numerous articles, chapters and entries in encyclopaedias on the history and politics of the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Middle East.
