Silkroad Papers and Monographs
Reconnecting India and Central Asia. Emerging Security and Economic Dimensions
Reconnecting India and Central Asia. Emerging Security and Economic Dimensions
179p. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, 2010
Edited by Nirmala Joshi
Between Fact and Fantasy: Turkey's Ergenekon Investigation
Labor Migration in Central Asia: Implications of the Global Economic Crisis
Dismantling Totalitarianism? Turkmenistan under Berdimuhamedow
State Approaches to National Integration in Georgia - Two Perspectives
By Ekaterine Metreveli, Niklas Nilsson, Johanna Popjanevski, Temuri Yakobashvili
February 2009
China as a Neighbor: Central Asian Perspectives and Strategies
By Marlène Laruelle & Sébastien Peyrouse (2009)
Prospects for a 'Torn' Turkey: A Secular and Unitary Future?
In Defense of Greater Central Asia
Policy Paper
By S. Frederick Starr
September 2008
* This Essay was first published in Politique Étrangère, no. 3, 2008, published by the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)
In recent years the term “Greater Central Asia” has become the subject of extravagant hypothesizing. Is it the work of some international band of globe spinners, a conspiracy to be launched by Washington, or simply a new way of conceptualizing a region that has been there throughout history? Lacking clarity on its meaning, the phrase “Greater Central Asia” becomes a kind of Rorschach Test, revealing more about the fears of the observer than about the actual region.
Because I have employed the phrase in print, my name has been linked with the concept of a “Greater Central Asia.” In the essay in question I employed the term as a convenient way of denoting the larger cultural zone of which the five former Soviet republics – Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan – are a part, along with Afghanistan. It did not occur to me that this required an extensive explanation. But it clearly demands one, which this essay now attempts to provide.
Russia’s War in Georgia: Causes and Implications for Georgia and the World
Kazakhstan and the New International Politics of Eurasia
