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NATO and Caspian security : a mission too far? / Richard Sokolsky, Tanya Charlick-Paley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sokolsky, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
- National security--Caspian Sea Region.
- National security.
- Caspian Sea Region--Defenses.
- Caspian Sea Region.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (124 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Attempts to put the Caspian Basin and Central Asia into a comprehensive strategic perspective at a time when NATO is increasingly concerned with challenges on its periphery. The authors examine NATO's interests and capabilities.
- Contents:
- PREFACE
- PROJECT AIR FORCE
- FIGURES
- SUMMARY
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- WESTERN OBJECTIVES AND INTERESTS IN THE CASPIAN REGION
- INTERNAL AND REGIONAL THREATS TO NATO INTERESTS
- INTERNAL THREATS TO STABILITY
- ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION AND SOCIAL DISCONTENT
- DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH: REALITIES AND EXPECTATIONS
- REGIONAL SOURCES OF CONFLICT AND INSTABILITY
- THE REGIONÌS FUTURE AND CHALLENGES FOR THE WEST
- THE THREAT OF REGIONAL HEGEMONY
- RUSSIA: THE ONCE BUT NOT FUTURE HEGEMON
- CHINAÌS LIMITED INFLUENCE
- TURKEYÌS ELUSIVE QUEST FOR A LARGER ROLE
- IRAN: CHIPPING AWAY AT THE MARGINS
- INDIA AND PAKISTAN
- TRANSNATIONAL THREATS
- THE RISK OF WMD PROLIFERATION
- Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Turkmenistan
- Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan
- Azerbaijan
- The Risk of Leakage
- THE SPREAD OF POLITICAL ISLAM
- CASPIAN OIL AND ENERGY SECURITY
- IMPLICATIONS FOR NATO AND WESTERN POLICY AND PLANNING
- PEACETIME MILITARY ACTIVITIES
- CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND PEACEKEEPING
- MAJOR MILITARY OPERATIONS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-113).
- ISBN:
- 0-8330-4344-7
- 0-585-23506-6
- OCLC:
- 44963062
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