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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