CENTRAL ASIA AS VIEWED BY CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL ANALYSTS

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  • Murat LAUMULIN D.Sc. (Political Science), hief Fellow at the Kazakhstan Institute of Strategic Studies (Almaty, Kazakhstan) Author

Abstract

This is the second part of the historiography on literature about Central Asia which appeared earlier this year in Central Asia and the Caucasus.1 It is intended to fill the gap about the books on Central Asia which have appeared in the last two years that were not covered in the previous article. 

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Durability in China’s Strategy toward Central Asia—Reasons for Optimism,” The China and Eurasia Forum Quarter-ly, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2008, pp. 3-10.

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India’s Approach to Central Asia: Strategic Intents and Geopolitical Calculus,” The China and Eurasia Forum Quarter-ly, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2009, pp. 103-114.

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2010-06-30

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LAUMULIN, M. (2010). CENTRAL ASIA AS VIEWED BY CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL ANALYSTS. CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS, 11(3), 109-125. https://ca-c.org/CAC/index.php/cac/article/view/1776

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