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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
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
- ISBN
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9783847409120
- Extent
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Online-Ressource, XI, 328 S.
- Language
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Englisch
- Notes
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet
- Keyword
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Sicherheitspolitik
Grenzgebiet
Zentralasien
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Opladen
- (who)
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B. Budrich
- (when)
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2016
- Contributor
- DOI
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10.3224/84740789
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-47034-3
- Rights
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
- Last update
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15.08.2025, 7:24 AM CEST
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Object type
- Aufsatzsammlung
Associated
- Rytövuori-Apunen, Helena
- B. Budrich
Time of origin
- 2016