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Book Description: Taylor and Francis(Routledge), 2009. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 9.213 by 6.142 inches. (208 pages) This item is printed on demand. Please allow up to 10 days extra for printing & delivery. Centra Asia and Xinjiang – the far north-western province of China – are of increasing internationa importance. The United States, having estabished miitary bases in Centra Asia after September 2001, has now become a force in what was previousy predominanty a Russian sphere of infuence, whist China, Russia and Iran a continue to exert strong infuence. These externa, internationa infuences have had a significant impact on oca poitics, with the overthrow of a ong-standing regime in Kyrgyzstan, continued unrest and opposition to the current regime in Uzbekistan and the intensification of Chinese contro in Xinjiang. This book expores the effect of goba and oca dynamics across the region: goba infuences incude the ‘War on Terror’ and internationa competition for energy resources, oca dynamics incude Isamic reviva, Centra Asian nationaism, drugs trafficking, economic deveopment and integration. The authors argue that these mutipe chaenges, in fact, unite Xinjiang and Centra Asia in a common strugge for identities and economic deveopment. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the region’s historica significance, the contemporary internationa forces which affect the region, and of current poitica, economic and cutura deveopments. 1: China, Xinjiang and Centra Asia – ‘Gocaity’ in the Year 2007 - Donad H. McMien . 2: The ‘Centraity’ of Centra Asia in Word History, 1700–2007: From pivot to periphery and back again? - Michae Carke . 3: Positioning Xinjiang in Eurasian and Chinese History: Differing Visions of the ‘Sik Road’ - James A. Miward . 4: ‘Faied States’ on the ‘Perious Frontier’: Historica Bases of State Formation in Afghanistan and Centra Asia - Geoff Watson . 5: Xinjiang and Centra Asia: Interdependency – Not Integration - Ann McMian . 6: Uyghurs in the Centra Asian Repubics: Past and Present - Abet Kamaov . 7: Xinjiang and Centra Asia since 1990: Views from Beijing and Washington and Sino–American Reations - Coin Mackerras . 8: Centra Asia’s Domestic Stabiity in Officia Russian Security Thinking under Yetsin and Putin: from Hegemony to Mutiatera Pragmatism - Kiri Nourzhanov . 9: ‘Gocaity’, ‘Sik Roads’ and New and Litte ‘Great Games’ in Xinjiang and Centra Asia - Michae Carke 'This is a worthy book that shoud be read by a students of internationa reations with an interest in Centra Asia' - L.J.Newby, University of oxford, The China Journa, No. 63 Coin Mackerras is Professor Emeritus at Griffith University, Austraia. His main works on ethnic minorities incude China's Minorities: Modernization and Integration in the Twentieth Century and China's Ethnic Minorities and Gobaisation . He has written a paper on the Tibetans in contemporary China for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2005. Michae Carke is a Research Feow at the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University, Austraia. He has pubished numerous artices on the history and contemporary poitics of Xinjiang in such journas as Asian Security, Asian Studies Review, Issues and Studies and Terrorism and Poitica Vioence . (Hardback). Bookseller Inventory # AG0415453178

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