Oil, Transition and Security in Central Asia
by Cummings, SallyPub. Date: 2002-06-01
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary
Approaching Central Asia from the perspective of geopolitics, transition, oil and stability, the authors provide a very broad and diverse analysis of the region, examining domestic and international developments since 1991.
Table of Contents
| List of illustrations | |
| Notes on contributors | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Independent Turkmenistan: from post-communism to sultanism | p. 9 |
| Independent Kazakhstan: managing heterogeneity | p. 25 |
| Independent Kyrgyzstan: liberalisation and economic reform | p. 36 |
| Independent Uzbekistan: ten years of gradualism or stagnation? | p. 47 |
| Independent Tajikistan: ten years lost | p. 59 |
| Constitutional change in Central Asia | p. 75 |
| In search of civil society in Central Asia | p. 84 |
| Continuity and change in the societies of Central Asia and the Caucasus: a theoretical approach | p. 96 |
| Turkmenistan: the political elite in an ethnic society | p. 108 |
| Nation-building and language standardisation in Kazakhstan | p. 119 |
| Agricultural restructuring in Kyrgyzstan: the next phase | p. 131 |
| Caspian oil and gas: how far have we come and where are we going? | p. 143 |
| Perspectives on the political risk system for western multinational oil company investment in Central Asia | p. 161 |
| The Caspian states of the former Soviet Union: economic performance since 1998 | p. 175 |
| The Caspian Sea: the management and politicisation of the maritime ecosystem in a period of transition | p. 192 |
| Central Asian water problems: the role of international law | p. 203 |
| Central Asian military reform: national, regional and international influences | p. 219 |
| Russian and Iranian national interests and their policies in the Caspian geopolitical region | p. 234 |
| Some geopolitical peculiarities of Central Asia, past and present | p. 246 |
| Eurasian manoeuvres | p. 255 |
| Index | p. 263 |
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