The regional security puzzle around Afghanistan : bordering practices in Central Asia and beyond / Helena Rytövuori-Apunen (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rytövuori-Apunen, Helena, 1954- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Security, International--Asia, Central.

Security, International.

Borderlands.

Asia, Central--Strategic aspects.

Asia, Central.

Borderlands--Asia, Central.

National security--Asia, Central.

National security.

Central Asia.

National security--Afghanistan.

Afghanistan.

Afghanistan--Strategic aspects.

Strategic aspects of individual places.

Physical Description:

xi, 328 pages : maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Opladen : Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2016.

Contents:

Introduction : bordering practices challenging state borders / Helena Rytövuori-Apunen

1. Old habits, new realities : Central Asia and Russia from the break-up of the USSR to 9/11 / Jeremy Smith

2. 'The problem with our borders in Batken' : local understandings of border control and sovereignty in Kyrgyzstan / Steven Parham

3. Dynamic militant insurgency in conflicted border spaces : Ferghana, the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, and Kashmir / Simbal Khan

4. Turkmenistan's Afghan border conundrum / Jan Sir and Slavomir Horak

5. Tajikistan's unsettled security : borderland dynamics of the outpost on Russia's Afghan frontier / Helena Rytövuori-Apunen and Furgzod Usmonov

6. Uzbekistan's balancing act : A game of chance for independent external policies / Vadim Romashov

7. Pakistan-Russia relations and the unfolding 'new great game' in South Asia / Tahir Amin

8. U.S. and Chinese Silk Road initiatives : towards a geopolitics of flows in Central Asia and beyond / Mika Aaltola and Juha Kapyla

9. Russia and Kazakhstan : mutually different interests for regional leadership / Dmitry Malyshev and Elnara Bainazarova

10. Limits of force-based strategies and institution-building : a focus on border spaces in the security puzzle / Simbal Khan and Helena Rytövuori-Apunen

Epilogue : charting border studies beyond North American grounds / Helena Rytövuori-Apunen and Renée Marlin-Bennett.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-314) and index.

ISBN:

9783847407898

3847407899

OCLC:

934502683