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The regional security puzzle around Afghanistan: bordering practices in Central Asia and beyond

Abstract: "Western military presence wanes in Afghanistan and a transformed security environment challenges borders and stability in Central Asia. This book examines how the tensions relating to the reorganization of external military presence interact with regional states’ ambitions and challenge the borders already contested by numerous dividing lines. It studies a complex political landscape across which radical Islam connected with international terrorism is feared to spread as the international mission initiated in the wake of the 9/11 attacks winds down. As Western military presence wanes in Afghanistan a transformed security environment challenges borders and stability in Central Asia. In this region former Soviet republics seek to consolidate their position by extending their control over politically problematic borderlands, setting up borders in areas where livelihood connections and transborder communities belie such bounding, and by seeking to maximize the independence of their fo

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
ISBN
9783847409120
Extent
Online-Ressource, XI, 328 S.
Language
Englisch
Notes
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet

Keyword
Sicherheitspolitik
Grenzgebiet
Zentralasien

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Opladen
(who)
B. Budrich
(when)
2016
Contributor

DOI
10.3224/84740789
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-47034-3
Rights
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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