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The Spectre of Afghanistan: Security in Central Asia

Author: Amin Saikal; Kirill Nourzhanov
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ISBN: 9781788317658
Format: Hardback
Published: February 2021
Published By: Bloomsbury
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Aiming to connect a number of divergent perspectives on the current state of Afghanistan, this book outlines the country' s past and present instability and how this impacts and is conceptualised by its neighbours as well as by international heavyweights such as Russia, China and the United States. Given Afghanista' s extensive cross-border ethnic, linguistic, sectarian and cultural ties with its neighbours - whatever transpires in the war-torn country is bound to have regional and global security implications. This study focuses on the current formal and informal defensive policies the states of Central Asia may or may not have in place in the event of the Afghan situation deteriorating further or the Taliban-led insurgency substantially widening their influence?

The book also considers the positions and policy responses of three influential actors in the region- Russia, China and the United States. It assesses the convergence of interests between these great powers in stabilising Afghanistan, and their divergence of geopolitical objectives in the region. With President Donald Trump unpredictably upheaving American policy in Afghanistan, an assertive Russia continuing to expand its influence across Central Asia and China seeking to have a wider economic and security role in the region, this book offers a timely assessment of an internationally-important topic.

Aiming to connect a number of divergent perspectives on the current state of Afghanistan, this book outlines the country' s past and present instability and how this impacts and is conceptualised by its neighbours as well as by international heavyweights such as Russia, China and the United States. Given Afghanista' s extensive cross-border ethnic, linguistic, sectarian and cultural ties with its neighbours - whatever transpires in the war-torn country is bound to have regional and global security implications. This study focuses on the current formal and informal defensive policies the states of Central Asia may or may not have in place in the event of the Afghan situation deteriorating further or the Taliban-led insurgency substantially widening their influence?

The book also considers the positions and policy responses of three influential actors in the region- Russia, China and the United States. It assesses the convergence of interests between these great powers in stabilising Afghanistan, and their divergence of geopolitical objectives in the region. With President Donald Trump unpredictably upheaving American policy in Afghanistan, an assertive Russia continuing to expand its influence across Central Asia and China seeking to have a wider economic and security role in the region, this book offers a timely assessment of an internationally-important topic.

Amin Saikal?isAdjunct Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia, and author o Modern Afghanistan- A History of Struggle and Surviva' (2012), and Iran Rising- The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republi' (2019)

Kirill Nourzhanov

ISBN: 9781788317658
Number of Pages: 272
Format: Hardback
Reading Level:
Published Date: 11-Feb-2021
Dimensions (mm): 0x0mm
Publisher: Bloomsbury

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