RUSSIA,
T HE CAUCASUS,
AND
CENTRAL ASIA
EURASIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY
The Total Security Environment
Dag Hartelius and Alexei G. Arbatov, Series Editors
Anya Schmemann, Assistant Series Editor
Eurasia in the 21st Century offers a comprehensive examination of the new security environment of Russia and its neighbors to the west (Volume 1), south (Volume 2), and east (Volume 3). The scope of the analysis takes in not only traditional political-military concerns but also economic, ethnic, and environmental issues and the role of crime, terrorism, the drug trade, and migration. This dynamic approach takes account of both internal and external aspects of security and their interplay. The participation of international authors facilitates the consideration of each problem from varied points of view.
VOLUME 1
Russia and the West:
The 21st Century Security Environment
Editors: Alexei G. Arbatov, Karl Kaiser, and Robert Legvold
VOLUME 2
Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia:
The 21st Century Security Environment
Editors: Rajan Menon, Yuri E. Fedorov, and Ghia Nodia
VOLUME 3
Russia and East Asia:
The 21st Century Security Environment
Editors: Gilbert Rozman, Mikhail G. Nosov, and Koji Watanabe
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RUSSIA,
T HE CAUCASUS ,
AND
CENTRAL ASIA
THE 21ST CENTURY SECURITY ENVIRONMENT
RAJAN MENON, YURI E.FEDOROV,
AND GHIA NODIA
EDITORS
First published 1999 by M.E. Sharpe
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia: the 21 st century security environment / edited by
Rajan Menon, Yuri E. Fedorov, and Ghia Nodia.
p. cm. (Eurasia in the 21 st century, the total security environment : v. 2)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7656-0433-7 (alk. paper)
1. National securityRussia (Federation) 2. Russia (Federation)Military relationsCaucasus. 3. Russia (Federation)Military RelationsAsia, Central. 4. CaucasusMilitary RelationsRussia (Federation) 5. Asia, CentralMilitary relationsRussia (Federation) 6. World politics19891. Menon, Rajan, 1953
II. Fedorov, Iu. E. (Iurii Evgenevich) III. Nodia, G.O. (Georgii Otarovich)
IV. Series: Eurasia in the 21st century : v. 2.
UA770.R8188 1999
355.0310947095dc21
9928033
CIP
ISBN 13: 9780765604330 (hbk)
This volume is dedicated, with gratitude and fondness,
to the memory of Oumirserik Kasenov.
Contents
Dag Hartelius and Alexei G. Arbatov, Series Editors
Rajan Menon
Roy Allison
Andrei V. Zagorski
Hendrik Spruyt and Laurent Ruseckas
Natalia V. Zubarevich and Yuri E. Fedorov
Ronald Grigor Suny
Emil A. Pain
Nancy Lubin
Irina D. Zviagelskaia and Vitali V. Naumkin
Yuri E. Fedorov and Ghia Nodia
Roy Allison is Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London. He has been a Senior Lecturer in Russian International Security Policy at the Centre for Russian and East European Affairs, University of Birmingham.
Alexei G. Arbatov, series editor, is a member of the Yabloko party in the Russian State Duma and is Deputy Chairman of the Dumas Defense Committee. Since 1990 he has been Director of the Center for Political and Military Forecasts at the Institute for World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Yuri E. Fedorov is Professor of Political Science and Deputy Chair of the Department of Political Science at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO) of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Dag Hartelius, series editor, is Vice President for European Security at the EastWest Institute. As a Swedish diplomat, he served in embassies and consulates in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin, Vilnius, and London, and was Deputy Head of the Division for Central and Eastern Europe at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm.
Nancy Lubin is President of JNA Associates, Inc., a consulting firm that works on projects concerning the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. Previously, she was Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a Project Director for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment.
Rajan Menon is the Monroe J. Rathbone Professor and Chairman of the Department of International Relations at Lehigh University. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Columbia Universitys Harriman Institute.
Vitali V. Naumkin is President of the Russian Center for Strategic Research and International Studies. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Vostok-Oriens and Head of the Center for Arab Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Ghia Nodia is Chairman of the Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy, and Development in Tbilisi. He is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at the Georgian Academy of Sciences and also teaches in the Sociology Department of Tbilisi State University.
Emil A. Pain is Director of the Center for Ethnopolitical Studies and was Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation in 1996. He was also Deputy Director of the Presidential Analytical Service and Head of the Presidential Councils Group on Nationality Problems.
