Oil, Transition and Security in Central Asia

by Cummings,Sally

• ISBN13: 9780415310901
• ISBN10: 0415310903
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-29
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

Approaching Central Asia from the perspective of geopolitics, transition, oil and stability, the authors provide a very broad and diverse analysis of the region, examining domestic and international developments since 1991. The book both provides an introduction to the region and presents advanced research on international pipeline projects, political risk and developments after September 11th. The authors draw on a variety of disciplines, including economics, politics, international relations, law and sociology.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Notes on contributors	x
Acknowledgements	xiv
Introduction	1	(6)
Sally N. Cummings
PART 1 Country surveys	7	(66)
Independent Turkmenistan: from post-communism to sultanism	9	(16)
Annette Bohr
Independent Kazakhstan: managing heterogeneity	25	(11)
Sally N. Cummings
Independent Kyrgyzstan: liberalisation and economic reform	36	(11)
Meg Luckins
Independent Uzbekistan: ten years of gradualism or stagnation?	47	(12)
Stuart Horsman
Independent Tajikistan: ten years lost	59	(14)
Rafis Abazov
PART 2 Politics and society	73	(68)
Constitutional change in Central Asia	75	(9)
John Anderson
In search of civil society in Central Asia	84	(12)
Sergei Gretsky
Continuity and change in the societies of Central Asia and the Caucasus: a theoretical approach	96	(12)
Anna Zelkina
Turkmenistan: the political elite in an ethnic society	108	(11)
Shokhrat Kadyrov
Nation-building and language standardisation in Kazakhstan	119	(12)
Pal Kolstø
Agricultural restructuring in Kyrgyzstan: the next phase	131	(10)
Malcolm D. Childress
PART 3 The Caspian: oil, pipelines and the environment	141	(76)
Caspian oil and gas: how far have we come and where are we going?	143	(18)
John Roberts
Perspectives on the political risk system for western multinational oil company investment in Central Asia	161	(14)
Peter Riches
The Caspian states of the former Soviet Union: economic performance since 1998	175	(17)
Helen Boss Heslop
The Caspian Sea: the management and politicisation of the maritime ecosystem in a period of transition	192	(11)
Stuart Horsman
Central Asian water problems: the role of international law	203	(14)
Alan Boyle
PART 4 Security and geopolitics	217	(46)
Central Asian military reform: national, regional and international influences	219	(15)
Roy Allison
Russian and Iranian national interests and their policies in the Caspian geopolitical region	234	(12)
Habibollah Abolhassan Shirazi
Some geopolitical peculiarities of Central Asia, past and present	246	(9)
Talgat Ismagambetov
Eurasian manoeuvres	255	(8)
John Erickson
Index	263