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Western military presence wanes in Afghanistan and a transformed security environment challenges borders and stability in Central Asia. This book examines how the tensions relating to the reorganization of external military presence interact with regional states' ambitions and challenge the borders already contested by numerous dividing lines. It studies a complex political landscape across which radical Islam connected with international terrorism is feared to spread as the international mission initiated in the wake of the 9/11 attacks winds down.
Contents
Introduction: The Regional Security Puzzle around Afghanistan - (Helena Rytovuori-Apunen); PART I State Borders: Consolidation and Challenges; 1. Old Habits, New Realities: Central Asia and Russia from the Break-up of the USSR to 9/11 (Jeremy Smith); 2 "The Problem With Our Borders in Batken": Local Understandings of Border Control and Sovereignty in Kyrgyzstan (Steven Parham); 3 Dynamic Militant Insurgency in Conflicted Border Spaces: Ferghana, the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border, and Kashmir (Simbal Khan); PART II Neighboring Afghanistan: Practices to Encounter Threats and Opportunities; 4 Tajikistan between Russia and Afghanistan: The Borderland Dynamics of the Frontier State (Helena Rytovuori-Apunen and Furugzod Usmonov); 5 Turkmenistan's Afghan Border Conundrum (Jan Sir and Slavomir Horak) 6 Uzbekistan's Balancing Act: A Game of Chance for Independent External Policies (Vadim Romashov); 7 Pakistan-Russia Relations and the Unfolding "New Great Game" in South Asia (Tahir Amin); PART III Security Through Development: Geostrategic Interests and Transborder Problems; 8 U.S. and Chinese Silk Road Initiatives: Towards a Geopolitics of Flows in Central Asia and Beyond (Mika Aaltola and Juha Kapyla); 9 Russia and Kazakhstan: Mutually Different Interests for Regional Leadership (Dmitry Malyshev and Elnara Bainazarova) 10 Limits of Force-based Strategies and Institution-Building: a Focus on Border Spaces in the Security Puzzle (Simbal Khan and Helena Rytovuori-Apunen); Epilogue: Charting Border Studies beyond North American Grounds (Helena Rytovuori-Apunen and Renee Marlin-Bennett)
