Table of Contents:
  • Central Asia in a new security context ... / Stephen Blank
  • China's role in central Asia
  • Resources of central Asia and the Caspian region
  • China, offshore oil and international relations
  • Addendum / Larry Wortzel
  • China's water diversion and its international implications ...
  • American interest in the region
  • Geopolitics and American foreign policy
  • Geopolitics of Caspian resources: Turkey and the power struggle ...
  • Waters of the Nile: Egypt and Ethiopia between conflict and progress
  • American interests in the Middle East
  • Geopolitical projections: Persian Gulf, Caspian basin and eastern Mediterranean
  • A sacred place is never empty: external geopolitics of the trans-Caspian / Stephen Blank.