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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451135803321

Titolo

The Middle East's relations with Asia and Russia / / edited by Hannah Carter and Anoushiravan Ehteshami

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-31784-0

1-280-02609-X

0-203-41289-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

Durham modern Middle East and Islamic world series ; ; 5

Classificazione

89.70

Altri autori (Persone)

CarterHannah <1974->

EhteshamiAnoushiravan

Disciplina

303.48/25605

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Middle East Relations Asia

Asia Relations Middle East

Middle East Relations Russia (Federation)

Russia (Federation) Relations Middle East

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Asian geostrategic realities and their impact on Middle East-Asia relations / Anoushiravan Ehteshami -- Russia and the Middle East / Roland Dannreuther -- The Middle East and China / Michael Dillon -- Present patterns of Islamism in Central Asia / Olivier Roy -- The contestation of Islam in post-Soviet Central Asia : a nascent security threat / Shirin Akiner -- Economic relations between the GCC and South and South East Asia / Rodney Wilson -- India and Pakistan's military and security relations with the Middle East / Ben Sheppard -- Muslim South East Asia and the Middle East / C.W. Watson.

Sommario/riassunto

Carter and Ehteshami consider the significant geopolitical, economic and security links between the Middle East and the wider Asian world - links which are often overlooked when the Middle East is considered in isolation or in terms of its relations with the West, but which are of growing importance. Topics covered include Asia's overall geostrategic realities and the Middle East's place within them; relations between the Middle East and China, Russia, central Asia, southeast Asia and south



Asia; Islam in central Asia and southeast Asia and the connections with the Middle East; and the importa