Rivalry in Eurasia: Russia, the United States, and the War on Terror

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An expert analysis of current U.S.-Russian relations as they play out in central Asia in the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11. * Six maps, one of the ex-Soviet Central Asian region and one map for each of the five countries where the Russian-American rivalry is occurring * Bibliography of all works consulted by the author in writing the book * Index of all names, places, situations, events, and developments covered in the book * Five charts of statistical data on population, economy, population, religion, ethnicity for each of the five country-based chapters

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"Goldman (political science, Northeastern U.) treats the U.S.-post- Soviet Russia relationship in the context of the Russian Federation's former central Asia republics. His timely analysis explains how the 9/11 attacks heightened the tensions between the countries as Russia sought to maintain its sphere of influence in this region while cooperating in the mutual war on Islamist terrorism, and how China and Iran factor into the complex equation. Maps situate the countries discussed: Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Takikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan." - Reference & Research Book News "...contributes greatly to understanding the complex issues that impinge daily upon the region. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections." - Choice

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Minton F. Goldman, Ph.D. is professor of Political Science at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. His published works include Praeger's Slovakia Since Independence: A Struggle for Democracy.