GEOPOLITICS OF CENTRAL ASIA IN THE POST-COLD WAR ERA

A Systemic Analysis

Haarlem, 2002

ISBN 90-804409-8-1

552p.

Edited by

ERTAN EFEGIL

TABLE OF CONTENT

PREFACE

Introduction

PART ONE: New World Order, Geopolitics and New Great Game

Debating the New World Order: Global

Governance vs. Multipolarity

Ertan Efegil

Balance of Influence: Fallout from a Changing

International System?

Benny Wahlberg

Geopolitical Importance of Central Asia in the Post – Cold

War era: A Perspective from Uzbekistan

Shukhrat Ganiev

Seeking Alliance by Russia and China against USA (NATO)

and Its Implications to Turkey

Mehmet Aça

Orta Asya Üzerine Güç Mücadelesi: Rusya ve Türkiye’nin

Baskın Güç Olma İddiaları

Ercan Sancak

PART TWO: Conflicting Policies of the Great Powers and Turkey

Rusya’nın Kafkasya Siyasetinin Temel Noktaları

Aydın İbrahimov

“The Turkish Threat” as a Domestic Policy Factor in

Contemporary Russia and Its Foreign Policy Implications

Anastasia Mitrofanova

Turkey’s Influence on the Central Asian States

in the Post – Cold War Era

Keith Leitich

Turkish Policy in South Caucasus

Bülent Aras

Rise of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)

in Eurasia: Is it an effective tool in a new big game?

İdris Bal

ABD’nin Orta Asya Politikası

İdris Bal

The Right of Free Passage and Montreux Regime

Mesut Hakkı Caşın

Russia and The European Union: An Economic and

Strategic Partnership

Elif Hatun Kılıçbeyli

EU Political Conditionality: Formulation, Application

and Evaluation of EU Political Conditionality in

Central and Eastern Europe, Cyprus, Turkey and

the Russian Federation

Larissa Ogertschnig

PART THREE: Nationalism, Integration, Terrorism and Economy

Turkestan Reconsidered: Post – Soviet Dilemmas

Pinar Akcali

Forces of Integration and Disintegration in Central

Asia in the Post – Cold War era

Rafis Abazov

Nationalism and Islam in Central Asia: “Truths”

or “Fantasies” on Nation

Yılmaz Çolak

Manipulating Central Asia: The Question of Security

Tamara Makarenko

Bölgesel İktisadi Bütünleşme Çabaları Çerçevesinde

Bağımsız Devletler Topluluğu’nun Değerlendirilmesi

Savaş Genç

The Estimation of Growth Effects of Regional Economic

Integration between Turkey and New Turkic Republics

by Using Fixed Effect Technique (1991 – 1998)

Bayram Güngör

Dış Ticaret İlişkileri ve Yatırımlar Açısından

Azerbaycan – Türkiye İlişkilerinin Mevcut

Durumunun Değerlendirilmesi

Gubad İbadoğlu

Paradigm Clash in Central Asia: The Japanese Perspective

on Development in Transition vis-à-vis the World Bank

İbrahim Öztürk

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