Afghanistan

Afghanistan
Author: C. Heather Bleaney
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 900414532X

Presents a thematically indexed bibliography devoted to Afghanistan. Following the pattern established by one of its major data sources, viz, the acclaimed Index Islamicus, both journal articles and book publications are included and indexed.

The Soviet Legacy in Central Asia

The Soviet Legacy in Central Asia
Author: J. Glenn
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1999-08-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230376436

This book analyses the new pattern of security concerns of the Central Asian successor states. This region is said to encompass Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, Kirghizstan and Turkmenistan. The main contention of the book is that the security problems of these states are similar to those that faced other 'Third World' countries after they attained independence. That is, due to the arbitrary creation of these states by external powers they lack a certain degree of societal cohesiveness arising from the fact that several ethnic communities reside within their borders. It is this so-called 'insecurity dilemma' of each of the Central Asian states that is therefore examined.

Afghanistan

Afghanistan
Author: Heather Bleaney
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2006-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047416678

This up-to-date, comprehensive, thematically indexed bibliography devoted to Afghanistan now and yesterday will help readers to efficiently find their way in the massive secondary literature available. Following the pattern established by one of its major data sources, viz. the acclaimed Index Islamicus, both journal articles and book publications are included and expertly indexed. An indispensable entry for all those taking professional or personal interest in a nation so much the focus of attention today.

The Roles of the United States, Russia and China in the New World Order

The Roles of the United States, Russia and China in the New World Order
Author: Hafeez Malik
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349251895

In the name of peace, international cooperation, democracy, trade and human rights, the struggle for power is underway between the United States, Russia and China. This struggle is motivated by the natural clash of national interests, an almost preordained process in the contemporary state system. The struggle for power has been the dynamic element of history, and it is likely to be in the future. International war(s) may or may not ensue between the three major powers, but their relations will remain competitive, and at times quite hostile.

Conflict and War in the Middle East

Conflict and War in the Middle East
Author: Bassam Tibi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1998-09-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230371574

Few studies of Middle East wars go beyond a narrative of events and most tend to impose on this subject the rigid scheme of superpower competition. The Gulf War of 1991, however, challenges this view of the Middle East as an extension of the global conflict. The failure of the accord of both superpowers to avoid war even once regional superpower competition in the Middle East had ceased must give rise to the question: Do regional conflicts have their own dynamic? Working from this assumption, the book examines local-regional constraints of Middle East conflict and how, through escalation and the involvement of extra-regional powers, such conflicts acquire an international dimension. The theory of a regional subsystem is employed as a framework for conceptualising this interplay between regional and international factors in Tibi's examination of the Middle East wars in the period 1967-91. Tibi also provides an outlook into the future of conflict in the Middle East in the aftermath of the most recent Gulf War.

Soviet-Pakistan Relations and Post-Soviet Dynamics, 1947–92

Soviet-Pakistan Relations and Post-Soviet Dynamics, 1947–92
Author: Hafeez Malik
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349105732

This book deserves to be read carefully by scholars and laymen of foreign policy dealing with the former Soviet Union, Russia and South Asia, and particularly by the political leaders of India and Pakistan. The book is a multi-dimensional analysis of (a) Soviet-American rivalry; (b) Soviet determination to expand in the direction of South Asia and the Gulf; (c) the regional dynamics of the Middle East most especially Iran, Afghanistan and China, the major power in Asia.