Rein Mullerson is Professor and Chair of International Law at King's College, London where he is also the Director of the MA Programme on International Peace & Security. He was the Head of the International Law Department of the Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and Adviser to President Gorbachev on issues of international law.

• Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Central Asia: Glorious History, Total Eclipse and Player of the New Great Games; Chapter 2 Central Asia: Struggling with its Historical Legacies; Chapter 3 Deserts and Oases, Past and Present: Paradoxes of Closed Societies; Chapter 4 The Role of Religion in Central Asian Societies; Chapter 5 The War Against Terrorism and Central Asia; Chapter 6; Missions civilicatrice; in Central Asia: then and now; Chapter 7 Promoting Elections While Suppressing Liberties: the Central Asian Way?; Chapter 8 Instead of Conclusions: From an African Village to a Global Village – a Roadmap for humankind?;

Rein Mullerson is Professor and Chair of International Law at King's College, London where he is also the Director of the MA Programme on International Peace & Security. He was the Head of the International Law Department of the Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and Adviser to President Gorbachev on issues of international law.

• Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Central Asia: Glorious History, Total Eclipse and Player of the New Great Games; Chapter 2 Central Asia: Struggling with its Historical Legacies; Chapter 3 Deserts and Oases, Past and Present: Paradoxes of Closed Societies; Chapter 4 The Role of Religion in Central Asian Societies; Chapter 5 The War Against Terrorism and Central Asia; Chapter 6; Missions civilicatrice; in Central Asia: then and now; Chapter 7 Promoting Elections While Suppressing Liberties: the Central Asian Way?; Chapter 8 Instead of Conclusions: From an African Village to a Global Village – a Roadmap for humankind?;

Rein Mullerson is Professor and Chair of International Law at King's College, London where he is also the Director of the MA Programme on International Peace & Security. He was the Head of the International Law Department of the Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and Adviser to President Gorbachev on issues of international law.

• Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Central Asia: Glorious History, Total Eclipse and Player of the New Great Games; Chapter 2 Central Asia: Struggling with its Historical Legacies; Chapter 3 Deserts and Oases, Past and Present: Paradoxes of Closed Societies; Chapter 4 The Role of Religion in Central Asian Societies; Chapter 5 The War Against Terrorism and Central Asia; Chapter 6; Missions civilicatrice; in Central Asia: then and now; Chapter 7 Promoting Elections While Suppressing Liberties: the Central Asian Way?; Chapter 8 Instead of Conclusions: From an African Village to a Global Village – a Roadmap for humankind?;