Oil, transition and security in Central Asia / Sally N. Cummings (edition).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Sally N. Cummings -- Country surveys -- 1. Independent Turkmenistan: from post-communism to sultanism / Annette Bohr -- 2. Kazakhstan: managing heterogeneity / Sally N. Cummings -- 3. Kyrgyzstan: liberalisation and economic reform / Meg Luckins -- Uzbekistan: ten years of gradualism or stagnation? / Stuart Horsman -- 4. Tajikistan: independent Tajikistan: ten lost years / Rafis Abazov -- Politics and society -- Constitutional change in Central Asia / John Anderson -- In search of civil society in Central Asia -- Sergei Gretsky -- Continuity and change in the societies of Central Asia and the Caucasus: a theoretical approach / Anna Zelkina -- Turkmenistan: the political elite in an ethnic society / Shokhrat Kadyrov -- Nation-building and language standardisation in Kazakhstan -- Pol Kolsto -- Agricultural restructuring in Kyrgyzstan: the next phase / Malcolm D. Childress -- The Caspian, oil, pipelines and the environment -- Caspian oil and gas: how far have we come and where are we going? / John Roberts -- Perspectives on the political risk system for Western multinational oil company -- Investment in Central Asia -- Peter Riches -- The Caspian states of the former Soviet Union: economic performance since 1998 / Helen Boss Heslop -- The Caspian sea: the management and politisation of the maritime ecosystem in a period of transition / Stuart Horsman -- Central Asian water problems: the role of international law / Alan Boyle -- Security and geopolitics -- Central Asian military reform: national, regional, and international influences / Roy Allison -- Russian national interests and its policies in the Caspian geopolitical region / Habibollah Abolhassan Shirazi -- Some geopolitical peculiarities of Central Asia, past and present / Talga T. Ismagambetov -- Eurasian manoeuvres / John Erickson.