Central Asia: Conflict Resolution and Change

Central Asia: Conflict, Resolution, and Change

Edited by Roald Z. Sagdeev & Susan Eisenhower
Associate Editors: Douglas A.R. Goudie & Heather Parrish Schmitt
© 1995 The Center for Political and Strategic Studies

This collected volume was published in December, 1995. It is the result of a multi-year grant project titled "Confict Resolution in Central Asia." The project brought together academics, policy makers and government officials from the five Central Asian states, Russia, and the United States to discuss and study the factors behind existing and potential conflict in the Central Asian region.

The entire volume is posted at this site. For information on how to purchase a copy, please contact The Eisenhower Institute at ei@eisenhowerinstitute.org.

Section One: Russia, a Guarantor of Stability in the Newly Independent States?

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Foreword, by Askar Akaev, President of Kyrgyzstan
• Chapter I: Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, Roald Sagdeev & Andrei Kortunov
• Chapter II: A First-Hand Account of Russian Military Actions in Chechnya, Anatoly Shabad
• Chapter III: The Chechen Crisis and the Future of Russia, Andrei Shumikhin
• Chapter IV: Russian Policies Toward Central Asia: An Overview, Andrei Kortunov & Andrei Shumikhin
• Chapter V: Consequences of the Afghan War: Lessons for Russia, Ret. Gen. Mahmut Gareev
• Chapter VI: Russia and Transcaucasia: Oil, Pipelines, and Geopolitics, Oumerserik Kasenov
• Chapter VII: Russia's Foreign Policy in Central Asia and the Caucasus, Alexander Akimov, Sergei Lounev & Glerii Shirokov

Section Two: Central Asia:  New-found Independence and the Danger of Conflict

• Chapter VIII: Central Asia after the Empire: Ethnic Groups, Communities and Problems, Yuri Kulchik
• Chapter IX: Ethnic Violence in Central Asia: Perceptions and Misperceptions, Martha Brill Olcott
• Chapter X: Military Development in Kazakhstan: Goals, Parameters, and Implications for Russia, Andrei Kortunov, Yuri Kulchik & Andrei Shumikhin
• Chapter XI: Russians in Kazakhstan: Problems, Myths, and Realities, Berik Abdigaliev
• Chapter XII: Inter-Ethnic Conflict and Resolution in Kazakhstan, Nurlan Amrekulov
• Chapter XIII: Democratic Kyrgyzstan: What Lies Ahead?, Tolkun Namatbaeva
• Chapter XIV: Uzbekistan's Foreign Policy: In Search of a Strategy, Kadir Alimov
• Chapter XV: Central Asian Security Forces Against Their Dissidents in Exile, Abdumannob Polat(ov)
• Chapter XVI: Civil War in Tajikistan: Causes, Developments and Prospects for Peace, Sergei Gretsky
• Chapter XVII: The Conflict in Tajikistan: Questions of Regionalism, Davlat Khudonazar(ov)
• Chapter XVIII: Religion: The Pillar of Society, Qadi Akbar Turajonzoda

Section Three: Central Asia and the World

• Chapter XIX: Central Asia as a Region in the World Economy, Alexander Akimov
• Chapter XX: Central Asia as a New Region in World Politics, Sergei Lounev & Glerii Shirokov
• Chapter XXI: The Role of the OCSE in the Peace Process of Tajikistan, Olivier Roy
• Chapter XXII: Ethnic Conflict Resolution and U.S. Assistance, Nancy Lubin
• Glossary, compiled by Daniil Rozental and Beth Lizut
• Contributors