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With the region of the Caucasus with its ongoing, and even deteriorating, crisis and instability and its strategic and economic importance increasingly at the front of the world''s attention, this volume presents and discusses some of the complexities and problems arising in the region such as Islamic terrorists and al-Qaida.

Scholars from different disciplines who specialise in the Caucasus analyze key topics such as:

With the situation in Chechnia likely to spread across the entire North Caucasus, this cutting edge work will be of great value in the near future and will interest political scientists and regional experts of Russia, Central Asia, Caucasus, Middle East and Turkey, as well as NGOs, government agencies and think tanks.

With the region of the Caucasus with its ongoing, and even deteriorating, crisis and instability and its strategic and economic importance increasingly at the front of the world''s attention, this volume presents and discusses some of the complexities and problems arising in the region such as Islamic terrorists and al-Qaida.

Scholars from different disciplines who specialise in the Caucasus analyze key topics such as:

With the situation in Chechnia likely to spread across the entire North Caucasus, this cutting edge work will be of great value in the near future and will interest political scientists and regional experts of Russia, Central Asia, Caucasus, Middle East and Turkey, as well as NGOs, government agencies and think tanks.

The Caspian Region, Volume 2 - together with Volume 1 - offers new issues and approaches to give readers a fuller understanding of this part of the world, as well as correcting some erroneous notions.

The Caspian Region, Volume 2 - together with Volume 1 - offers new issues and approaches to give readers a fuller understanding of this part of the world, as well as correcting some erroneous notions.

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, new states - most of them muslim - emerged in central Asia and the Caucasus. These new states proved to be both oil-rich and central in the strip of conflict and instability that stretches from central Europe to the Far East. This volume draws attention to previously neglected issues which could result in conflict:* the water problem and negotiation in central Asia* the issues of ''Southern Azerbaijan'', Ajaria and Javakheti * the many problems of multi-ethnic Daghestan* two attempts at unity in the Northern Caucasus.The book also re-examines some of the established truths regarding the states around the Caspian Sea, and re-evaluates:* the validity of the term ''Caspian region'' and the question of who should be included in this new region* the general belief that the Caspian region will be a geopolitical centre of the 21st century* the axiom that the dissolution of the USSR has reopened the ''Great Game''.Moreover, The Caspian Region thoughtfully re-examines the questions of democracy; of fundamentalist Islam and of the complex, ambivalent relationship between Islam and nationalism in the region.

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, new states - most of them muslim - emerged in central Asia and the Caucasus. These new states proved to be both oil-rich and central in the strip of conflict and instability that stretches from central Europe to the Far East. This volume draws attention to previously neglected issues which could result in conflict:* the water problem and negotiation in central Asia* the issues of ''Southern Azerbaijan'', Ajaria and Javakheti * the many problems of multi-ethnic Daghestan* two attempts at unity in the Northern Caucasus.The book also re-examines some of the established truths regarding the states around the Caspian Sea, and re-evaluates:* the validity of the term ''Caspian region'' and the question of who should be included in this new region* the general belief that the Caspian region will be a geopolitical centre of the 21st century* the axiom that the dissolution of the USSR has reopened the ''Great Game''.Moreover, The Caspian Region thoughtfully re-examines the questions of democracy; of fundamentalist Islam and of the complex, ambivalent relationship between Islam and nationalism in the region.