China, Xinjiang and Central Asia

'This is a worthy book that should be read by all students of international relations with an interest in Central Asia' - L.J.Newby, University of oxford, The China Journal, No. 63

Colin Mackerras is Professor Emeritus at Griffith University, Australia. His main works on ethnic minorities include China's Minorities: Modernization and Integration in the Twentieth Century and China's Ethnic Minorities and Globalisation. He has written a paper on the Tibetans in contemporary China for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2005. Michael Clarke is a Research Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University, Australia. He has published numerous articles on the history and contemporary politics of Xinjiang in such journals as Asian Security, Asian Studies Review, Issues & Studies and Terrorism & Political Violence.

1. China, Xinjiang and Central Asia Glocality in the Year 2007 Donald H. McMillen 2. The Centrality of Central Asia in World History, 17002007: From Pivot to Periphery and Back Again? Michael Clarke 3. Positioning Xinjiang in Eurasian and Chinese History: Differing Visions of the Silk Road James A. Millward 4. Failed States on the Perilous Frontier: Historical Bases of State Formation in Afghanistan and Central Asia Geoff Watson 5. Xinjiang and Central Asia: Interdependency Not Integration Ann McMillan 6. Uyghurs in the Central Asian Republics: Past and Present Ablet Kamalov 7. Xinjiang and Central Asia since 1990: Views from Beijing and Washington and SinoAmerican Relations Colin Mackerras 8. Central Asias Domestic Stability in Official Russian Security Thinking under Yeltsin and Putin: From Hegemony to Multilateral Pragmatism Kirill Nourzhanov 9. Glocality, Silk Roads and New and Little Great Games in Xinjiang and Central Asia Michael Clarke