Russian-American Relations: Islamic and Turkic Dimensions in the Volga-Ural Basin

ISBN-13: 9780333733899 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 314 str.

Malik, H.

Opis

This is a collective endeavour to highlight the role of Islam in the emerging pattern of relations between Russia and the United States. It highlights particularly the role that the two autonomous republics within the Russian Federation - Tatarstan and Bashkortostan - play in Eurasia. Some analysts have described them as the soft underbelly of the Russian Federation. Future trends are also indicated, which delineate the dilemmas of the Russian state for its territorial integrity and national self-determination of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan within the Russian Federation. This book also analyses Russian-US relations with Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. These states indeed play, according to these analyses, a crucial role in Eurasia, and also compete against each other.

Spis treści

Preface Notes on the Contributors Islamic and Turkic Dimensions in Russian-American Relations: An Introduction; H.Malik Islam and Ethnicity in the CIS: The American Perspective; G.E.Fuller Turkic and Islamic Dimensions of Russian-American Relations; A.Z.Rubenstein Russian Policy Toward Central Asia and Central Asia's Neighbours; S.Gretsky National Self-Determination, Russian State Unity and the Chechen Conflict; R.V.Barylski Russian and Islam: Mutual Adjustments in the New World; M.Konarovsky Russian and the Islamic Factor: Possible Sources of Military Conflicts and their Prevention; M.A.Gareyev Political Perspectives of Islam in Bashkortostan; A.Yunosova Tatarstan's Quest for Autonomy within the Russian Federation; H.Malik Russia-Tatarstan: Problems of the Economic Reforms; M.G.Galeyev Tatar Renaissance in the Context of Eurasian Civilization; M.H.Khasanov Tatarstan's Model of Cultural Revival; E.Tagirov Revival of Nationalism in Bashkortostan; H.Malik The Role of Bashkortostan's National Sovereignty in Russian Multi-National State; D.Zh.Valeyev Turkic Peoples of Russia: Ethno-Political Perspectives in Historical Context, and the Study of Bashkortostan; R.G.Kuzeyev Ethno-Linguistic Situation in the Republic of Bashkortostan; Z.Uraksin Index

O autorze

HAFEEZ MALIK is Professor of Political Science at Villanova University, Pennsylvania. He is also a member of the Russian Studies Program and the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies at Villanova University. He is the editor of the Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and is the author/editor of thirteen books on world affairs.