International Journal of Middle East Studies

Table of Contents - 2001 - Volume 33, Issue 01  


Book Review

HOOMAN PEIMANI, Regional Security and the Future of Central Asia: The Competition of Iran, Turkey, and Russia (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998). Pp. 165.

A. WILLIAM SAMII a1

Abstract

Hooman Peimani, a consultant with United Nations agencies in Geneva and an independent researcher on the Middle East, West Asia, and the Commonwealth of Independent States, has written an ambitious work based on the premise that the Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) share geographical, societal, political, economic, and military factors, combined with common concerns. These commonalties mean that the individual states are linked so closely that their national-security concerns cannot be considered independently. Thus, one has a “security complex” in which there is interdependence, rivalry, and shared interests.


Correspondence:
a1 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc., Prague

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