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“michael d beck”

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  • Crossroads and Conflict

    Security and Foreign Policy in the Caucasus and Central Asia

    Edited by Gary K. Bertsch, Cassady B. Craft, Scott A. Jones, Michael D. Beck ...
    The world's second largest reserves of petroleum lie beneath the land-locked Caspian Sea, making the Caucasus of vital importance to both regional and global economic and security interests. This book brings together experts from the US, Russia and the Caucasus to examine the issues of conflict, foreign policy tradeoffs, and security in the region. It takes into account the geopolitical factors, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Great Games, Local Rules

    The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia

    by Alexander Cooley ...
    The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth century was the original "great game." But in the past quarter century, a new "great game" has emerged, pitting America against a newly aggressive Russia and a resource-hungry China, all struggling for influence over the same region, now one of the most volatile areas in the world: the long border region stretching ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • After Empire

    The Birth of a Multipolar World

    by Dilip Hiro ...
    American corporations have to beg for capital from the cash-rich Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Persian Gulf. By invading Iraq, President George W. Bush grossly undermined American credibility in the international arena and irrevocably weakened Washington's diplomatic clout.Together, these historic shifts have provided an opportunity for the world to move from the tutelage of the sole superpower, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth

    by Michael Mandelbaum ...
    In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history. In The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth, the eminent foreign policy scholar Michael Mandelbaum examines that remarkable quarter century, describing how and why the peace was established and then fell apart. To be sure, wars took place in this era, but less frequently and on a far smaller scale than in previous ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Kazakhstan

    Unfulfilled Promise

    by Martha Brill Olcott ...
    At the outset of independence 18 years ago, Kazakhstan's leaders promised that the country's rich natural resources, with oil and gas reserves among the largest in the world, would soon bring economic prosperity. It appeared that democracy was beginning to take hold in this newly independent state. Nearly two decades later, Kazakhstan has achieved the World Bank's ranking of a "middle economic ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The New Continentalism: Energy and Twenty-First-Century Eurasian Geopolitics

    by Kent E. Calder, PhD - History ...
    In this groundbreaking book Kent E. Calder argues that a new transnational configuration is emerging in Asia, driven by economic growth, rising energy demand, and the erosion of longstanding geopolitical divisions. What Calder calls the New Silk Road—with a strengthening multi-faceted relationship between East Asia and the Middle East at its core—could eventually emerge as one of the world's most ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The New Geopolitics of Eurasia and Turkey's Position

    by Bulent Aras ...
    This work explores the geopolitical struggles that are currently underway in the newly independent states of the Caucasus region, showing how many players in the region are coalescing into two opposing blocs. The growing political, military and economic ties amongst the countries of these two blocs stem from a number of developments in the region, most notably the fall of the Soviet Union, and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Defense of the West

    NATO, the European Union and the transatlantic bargain

    by Stanley R. Sloan ...
    This bookdelivers a clear and balanced interpretive history of transatlantic security relations from the late-1940s to the present day. The author writes in the authoritative and highly readable style that has made his work required reading for policy makers as well as academic experts on and students of International Relations on both sides of the Atlantic. The lively text is also highly ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Russian Foreign Policy

    Interests, Vectors, and Sectors

    by Christopher Marsh, Nikolas K. Gvosdev ...
    In a truly contemporary analysis of Moscow′s relations with its neighbors and other strategic international actors, Gvosdev and Marsh use a comprehensive vectors approach, dividing the world into eight geographic zones. Each vector chapter looks at the dynamics of key bilateral relationships while highlighting major topical issues—oil and energy, defense policy, economic policy, the role of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Fight for Influence

    Russia in Central Asia

    by Alexey Malashenko ...
    Russian influence in Central Asia is waning. Since attaining independence, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan have forged their own paths-building relationships with outside powers and throwing off the last vestiges of Soviet domination. But in many ways, Moscow still sees Central Asia through the lens of the Soviet Union, and it struggles to redefine Russian ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Russian Business Power

    The Role of Russian Business in Foreign and Security Relations

    Edited by Andreas Wenger, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption
    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has developed a powerful business community and a potent network of transnational organized groups.Russian Business Power explores the powerful impact these new actors are having on the evolution of the Russian state and its foreign behaviour. Unlike other books, which focus either on Russia's foreign and security policy, or on the evolution of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Kazakhstan

    by Didar Kassymova, Zhanat Kundakbayeva, Ustina Markus ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
    Kazakhstan is in some ways a very old nation dating back to the Kazakh Khanate of 1458, but it dramatically transformed within the Russian Empire and even more so during the period when it was part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Since 1991 it has been independent and has had to forge its own policy in all fields. Kazakhstan is in an enviable position in terms of exportable natural ... Read more

    $129.99 USD