Challenges and opportunities for the Obama administration in Central Asia

• Autore: Blank Stephen
• Pubblicazione: [Place of publication not identified], : Strategic Studies Institute U S Army War College, 2009
• Soggetto topico: Afghan War, 2001-2021; Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East; History & Archaeology; South Asia
• Soggetto geografico: Asia, Central Strategic aspects; United States Foreign relations Asia, Central; Asia, Central Foreign relations United States
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Sommario/riassunto: President Obama has outlined a comprehensive strategy for the war in Afghanistan which is now the central front of our campaign against Islamic terrorism. The strategy strongly connects our prosecution of that war to our policy in Pakistan and internal developments there as a necessary condition of victory. But the strategy has also provided for a new logistics road through Central Asia. The author argues that a winning strategy in Afghanistan depends as well upon the systematic leveraging of the opportunity provided by that road and a new coordinated nonmilitary approach to Central Asia. That approach would rely heavily on improved coordination at home and the more effective leveraging of our superior economic power in Central Asia to help stabilize the region so that it provides a secure rear to Afghanistan. In this fashion we would help Central Asia meet the challenges of extremism, of economic decline due to the global economic crisis, and thus help provide political stability in states that are likely to be challenged by the confluence of those trends.
• Titolo autorizzato: Challenges and opportunities for the Obama administration in Central Asia
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910345110203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II