Author(s): Mehdi Parvizi Amineh; Henk Houweling
Edition: 2
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 365
Preface to the second edition......Page 7
Acknowledgements to the second edition......Page 11
List of Contributors......Page 13
List of Abbreviations......Page 17
The Crisis in IR-Theory: Towards a Critical Geopolitics Approach......Page 19
Part One THE POLICY OF PROJECTING POWER INTO VACUUM AREAS......Page 41
I The Geopolitics of Power Projection in US Foreign Policy: From Colonization to Globalization (Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling)......Page 43
II Caspian Energy: Oil and Gas Resources and the Global Market (Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling)......Page 95
Part Two LOCAL DYNAMICS......Page 111
III Nation-State Building in Central Asia: A Lost Case? (Pinar Akçali)......Page 113
IV Political Processes in Post-Soviet Central Asia (Shirin Akiner)......Page 135
V The Economic and Social Impact of Systemic Transition in Central Asia and Azerbaijan (Michael Kaser)......Page 163
VI Gendered Transitions: The Impact of the Post-Soviet Transition on Women in Central Asia and the Caucasus (Armine Ishkanian)......Page 179
Part Three INTERACTIONS BETWEEN OUTSIDERS, NEIGHBORS AND CENTRAL EURASIAN REPUBLICS......Page 201
VII Sino-Indian Relations: Security Dilemma, Ideological Polarization, or Cooperation Based on 'Comprehensive Security'? (Kurt Radtke)......Page 203
VIII The US and the EU in CEA. Relations with Regional Powers (Mehdi Parvizi Amineh and Henk Houweling)......Page 225
IX Paradigms of Iranian Policy in Central Eurasia and Beyond (Eva Rakel)......Page 253
Part Four LOCAL CONFLICTS......Page 277
X Growing Tension and the Threat of War in the Southern Caspian Sea: The Unsettled Division Dispute and Regional Rivalry (Hooman Peimani)......Page 279
XI The 'Power of Water' in a Divided Central Asia (Max Spoor and Anatoly Krutov)......Page 297
XII A Transnational Policy for Conflict Reduction and Prevention in the South Caucasus (Robert M. Cutler)......Page 319
XIII International Challenges and Domestic Preferences in the Post-Soviet Political Transition of Azerbaijan (Ayça Ergun)......Page 339
Index......Page 363
