Edited by Svante E. Cornell
AFPC Press / Armin Lear, 2023
Contents
Introduction
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A Steadily Tightening Embrace: China's Asecnt in Central Asia and the Caucasus
Raffaello Pantucci
Russian Strategy towards the Caucasus and Central Asia: A Dominant Power on Defense?
Ariel Cohen
Iran's Policy toward the Caucasus and Central Asia
Brenda Shaffer
The Dawn of Turan: Eurasian Opportunity and Challenge for Turkey
Halil Karaveli
The EU's Growing Presence in Central Asia and the Caucasus
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India's Changing Approach towards Central Asia and the Caucasus after the Afghanistan Debacle and Ukraine
Gulshan Sachdeva
Japan as No "Other": Decolonizing Alternative or Central Asia?
Timur Dadabaev
Bureaucratic Morass and Conceptual Pitfalls: America's Approach to Central Asia and the Caucasus
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Azerbaijan's Strategic Patience in a Changing World
Anar Valiyev and Inara Yagubova
Georgian Foreign Policy Strategy in Uncertain Times
Kornely Kakachia
Between Scylla and Charybdis: Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy in Pursuit of a New Equilibrium
Nargis Kassenova
Kyrgyzstan and the Changing Geopolitics of Central Asia
Shairbek Dzhuraev
Turkmenistan Lifts Its Head
S. Frederick Starr
Uzbekistan 2.0: Continuity and Change in Foreign Policy
Farkhad Tolipov
Implications for Policy
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