Afghanistan’s major regional external stakeholders, Pakistan, China, Russia, and Iran, will play a major role in that country’s future. But the five former-Soviet Central Asian republics are also strategically important and must be factored into the stakeholder mix.
The Spectre of Afghanistan: Security in Central Asia, is a very timely review of these Central Asian republics (CARs) – Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan – within the stakeholder mix. The book’s co-authors are Australian academics Dr Kirill Nourzhanov, a senior lecturer at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at ANU, and Professor Amin Saikal, a former
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