Identifying Instability Pockets

Abstract

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, new independent states have emerged in Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Central Asia has been a strategically important region during the Great Game and is becoming more important as each of the great powers finds interests in the region. The precarious stability in Central Asia is at stake and it is vital to understand how it is undermined, as instability will cause problems for the international community. This monograph examines the causes of instability in Central Asia, in particular, ethnic strife, border issues, resource scarcity, radicalism, and drug trafficking and examines how to identify pockets of instability in the region in order to create longer-term stability in Central Asia.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 04, 2014
Accession Number
ADA614169

Entities

People

  • Iskander Karim

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cis
  • Drug Abuse
  • Drug Trafficking
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Geography
  • Health Services
  • International Law
  • International Relations
  • Minority Groups
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Political Systems
  • Societies
  • Sociopolitics
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • Ussr

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union