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The Long Game on the Silk Road - US and EU Strategy for Central Asia and the Caucasus (Hardcover)
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The Long Game on the Silk Road - US and EU Strategy for Central Asia and the Caucasus (Hardcover)
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This book argues that American and European policies toward Central
Asia and the Caucasus suffer from both conceptual and structural
impediments. It traces the framework of Western policies to the
1975 Helsinki Final Act, which resulted in the stovepiping of
relations into political, economic, and democracy categories - and
in often uncoordinated or contradictory policies. While the authors
embrace the goal of promoting human rights and democracy, they
argue that the antagonistic methods adopted to advance this goal
have proven counter-productive. They propose that Western
governments work with the regional states rather than on or against
them; and that instead of focusing directly on political systems,
policies should focus on developing the quality of governance and
help build institutions that will be building blocks of rule of law
and democracy in the long term. The authors also argue that Western
leaders have largely failed to grasp the significance of this
region, relegated it to a subordinate status and thus damaging
western interests. The development of sovereign, economically
strong, and effectively self-governing states in the Caucasus and
Central Asia is an important goal in its own right; the book
stresses the importance of a region where the development and
preservation of secular statehood could become a model for the
entire Muslim world.
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