Central Eurasia In Global Politics ─ Conflict, Security, And Development

Specialists in Central Asia from eastern and western Europe, North America, and Australia trace the history of US power projection into the region from the early 19th century to the present. They use the critical geopolitics approach, arguing that it is particularly relevant for studying the foreign policies of projecting power beyond borders in the era of sequential industrialization. The first edition was being assembled during the US and British invasion of Iraq in 2003, which seemed to contradict some of the hypotheses being presented; now that the justifications for the invasion are known to have been lies, the editors confidently conclude that it is part of constructing a new leg in US Cold War defense perimeter. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Mehdi Parvizi Amineh, Ph.D. (1998, Amsterdam) is Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, The Netherlands. He is also Research Fellow at the Clingendael International Energy Programme (CIPE), The Hague and Research Fellow at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR), University of Amsterdam.Henk Houweling, Ph.D. (1986, Leiden) is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science of the University of Amsterdam. His fields of interests are history and theory of International Relations.