Description
Turkmenistan is the focus of attention in academic, political and diplomatic circles throughout the world, especially after the death of authoritarian leader Saparmyrat Niyazov in December 2006
First fundamental academic work analysing the process of the formation of Turkmenistan as an independent State - viewed through the lens of its foreign policy
This book analyses the foreign policy of independent Turkmenistan and will further the readers’ understanding of the domestic and foreign policy of today’s Turkmenistan
Relevant to the study of Central Asia as a whole, given the ever-growing interest of the world community to geo-political position of this region and its potential in terms of energy and natural resources
Table of Contents
Introduction Part 1: Contextualising Turkmenistan’s Foreign Policy 1. Establishing a conceptual framework for the policy of Positive Neutrality 2. Turkmen authoritarianism in the post-Soviet era 3. The Doctrine of Positive Neutrality as a key element in nation-building Part 2: The Operational Dimension of Turkmen Foreign Policy 4. The Economic Foreign Policy of Neutral Turkmenistan 5. Neutrality as equidistance from sources of dependency: Russo-Turkmen relations in the post-Soviet Era 6. Neutrality as a policy of insulation: The international community and human rights violations in Turkmenistan 7. Turkmenistan’s foreign policy in the post-Niyazov era Conclusion: Continuity and change in Turkmen foreign policy-making
