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Great Games, Local Rules Alexander Cooley (Tow Professor for Distinguished Scholars and Practitioners in the Department of Political Science, Tow Professor for Distinguished Scholars and Practitioners in the Department of Political Science, Barnard College)

Great Games, Local Rules By Alexander Cooley (Tow Professor for Distinguished Scholars and Practitioners in the Department of Political Science, Tow Professor for Distinguished Scholars and Practitioners in the Department of Political Science, Barnard College)

Summary

Russia, the U.S., and China all see Central Asia as strategically important and have devoted extensive financial and human resources there. In Great Games, Local Rules, Alexander Cooley, one of America's leading younger international relations scholars, explores the dynamics of the new competition for influence over the region since 9/11.

Great Games, Local Rules Summary

Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia by Alexander Cooley (Tow Professor for Distinguished Scholars and Practitioners in the Department of Political Science, Tow Professor for Distinguished Scholars and Practitioners in the Department of Political Science, Barnard College)

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 from Iran through Pakistan to Kashmir. In Great Games, Local Rules, Alexander Cooley, one of America's most respected international relations scholars, explores the dynamics of the new competition for control of the region since 9/11. All three great powers have crafted strategies to increase their power in the area, which includes Afghanistan and the former Soviet republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan. Each nation is pursuing important goals: basing rights for the US, access to natural resources for the Chinese, and increased political influence for the Russians. However, overlooked in all of the talk about this new great game is fact that the Central Asian governments have proven themselves critical agents in their own right, establishing local rules for external power involvement that serve to fend off foreign interest. As a result, despite a decade of intense interest from the United States, Russia, and China, Central Asia remains a collection of segmented states, and the external competition has merely reinforced the sovereign authority of the individual Central Asian governments. A careful and surprising analysis of how small states interact with great powers in a vital region, Great Games, Local Rules greatly advances our understanding of how global politics actually works in the contemporary era.

Great Games, Local Rules Reviews

Great Games, Local Rules is a timely contribution ... this concise book (under 200 pages) with handy subheadings every two pages or so is recommended reading for journalists and students who want to brush up on the developments of the last ten years. In turn, Cooley has brought Central Asia to a wider academic audience. * Annabelle Chapman, LSE Review of Books *
a highly readable, richly researched and insightful book that explores the increasingly intensifying interaction between China, Russia and the USA. ...Cooley has produced an excellent study of the region that should be required reading for scholars, policy makers, and interested students. * Johannes Olschner, The Royal Society for Asian Affairs *

About Alexander Cooley (Tow Professor for Distinguished Scholars and Practitioners in the Department of Political Science, Tow Professor for Distinguished Scholars and Practitioners in the Department of Political Science, Barnard College)

Alexander Cooley is the Tow Professor for Distinguished Scholars and Practitioners in the Department of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University. His books include Contracting States, Logics of Hierarchy, and Base Politics.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The New Multipolar Politics of Influence in Central Asia ; Chapter 2: Local Rules: The Origins and Politics of Central Asian Regime Survival ; Chapter 3: Washington's Strategy: Juggling Interests and Values on the Road to Afghanistan ; Chapter 4: Moscow's Strategy: The Quest for a Privileged Role ; Chapter 5: Beijing's Strategy: The SCO, Xinjiang and China's Great Leap Westward ; Chapter 6: Anti-Terrorism, Democratization and Human Rights ; Chapter 7: Geopolitical Competition and Political Stability: The Case of Kyrgyzstan ; Chapter 8: Corruption and Governance: Competition and Collusion in Contracting ; Chapter 9: Regional Integration: So Many Proposals, So Little Cooperation ; Chapter 10: Conclusion: Central Asia's Multipolar Politics in Comparative Perspective ; Appendix 1: Laws Passed after Color Revolutions that Introduced New Restrictions on NGOs ; and the Media ; Appendix 2: Election Monitor Assessments, ODIHR/SCO/CIS

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GOR007748040
9780199331437
019933143X
Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia by Alexander Cooley (Tow Professor for Distinguished Scholars and Practitioners in the Department of Political Science, Tow Professor for Distinguished Scholars and Practitioners in the Department of Political Science, Barnard College)
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Oxford University Press Inc
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