From the Gulf to Central Asia: Players in the New Great GameAnoushiravan Ehteshami University of Exeter Press, 1994 - 242 ページ The demise of the Soviet Union, and the emergence of independent republics in its wake, have had profound implications for the regions on its periphery. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Caucasus and Central Asia. The essays in this book explore the complex ways in which these republics have found both independence and a new regional identity in their relations with the neighbouring Middle East. Religion, hydro-carbons, transportation needs and ethnic relations with the Gulf States have been rediscovered by the new republics, the study of which provides the basic subject matter for the book. The interests and activities of other regional powers are not excluded, with particular attention being given to the playing out of Russian, Turkish and American interests in countering the perceived rise of political Islam in the Caucasus and Central Asia. |
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Iranian and Saudi Arabian Religious and Geopolitical | 25 |
The Islamic Connection | 47 |
The Problems of Creating Economies in Central Asia | 58 |
45 | 70 |
Perspectives of Political | 82 |
Iran the GCC and the CCARS | 92 |
Iran and Central Asia | 127 |
Azerbaijan and Armenian Conflict and Coexistence | 146 |
Emerging Security Links | 168 |
Western Security Strategy in South West Asia | 188 |
The Political and Security Linkages Between the Gulf and the Muslim | 206 |
An Arab Perspective on the Central Asian Republics in the Context | 222 |
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